_Fetter-lane_ has been erroneously supposed to have some connexion with the _fetters_ of criminals. It was in Charles the First's time written _Fewtor-lane_, and is so in Howell's "Londinopolis," who explains it from "_Fewtors_ (or idle people) lying there as in a way leading to gardens." It was the haunt of these _Faitors_, or "mighty beggars." The _Faitour_, that is, a _defaytor_, or _defaulter_, became _Fewtor_; and in the rapid pronunciation, or conception, of names, _Fewtor_ has ended in _Fetter-lane_. _Gracechurch-street_, sometimes called _Gracious-street_, was originally _Grass-street_, from a herb-market there. _Fenchurch-street_, from a fenny or moorish ground by a river side. _Galley-key_ has preserved its name, but its origin may have been lost. Howell, in his "Londinopolis," says, "here dwelt strangers called _Galley-men_, who brought wines, &c. in _Galleys_." "_Greek-street_," says Pennant, "I am sorry to degrade into _Grig-street_;" whether it alludes to the little vivacious eel, or to the merry character of its tenants, he does not resolve. _Bridewell_ was _St. Bridget's-well_, from one dedicated to Saint Bride, or Bridget. _Marybone_ was _St. Mary-on-the-Bourne_, corrupted to _Marybone_; as _Holborn_ was _Old Bourn_, or the Old River; _Bourne_ being the ancient English for _river_; hence the Scottish _Burn_. _Newington_ was _New-town_. _Maiden-lane_ was so called from an image of the Virgin, which, in Catholic days, had stood there, as Bagford writes to Hearne; and he says, that the frequent sign of the _Maiden-head_ was derived from "our Lady's head." _Lad-lane_ was originally _Lady's-lane_, from the same personage. _Rood-lane_ was so denominated from a Rood, or Jesus on the cross, there placed, which was held in great regard. _Piccadilly_ was named after a hall called _Piccadilla-hall_, a place of sale for _Piccadillies_, or _turn-overs_; a part of the fashionable dress which appeared about 1614. It has preserved its name uncorrupted; for Barnabe Rice, in his "Honestie of the Age," has this passage on "the body-makers that do swarm through all parts, both of London and about London. The body is still pampered up in the very dropsy of excess. He that some fortie years sithens should have asked after a _Pickadilly_, I wonder who would have understood him; or could have told what a _Pickcadilly_ had been, either fish or flesh."[120] Strype notices that in the liberties of Saint Catharine is a place called _Hangmen's-gains_; the traders of _Hammes_ and _Guynes_, in France, anciently resorted there; thence the strange corruption.