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The Cross was a wayside cross or calvary
that Henry Harben describes as being present [i]n Agas’ map at the junction of the Minories and Little Tower Hill
(Harben 417).
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Running south from Aldgate Street to Little Tower Hill, Minories derives its name from the Abbey of St. Clare, called the Abbey of the Minoresses of St. Clare, which stood at the street’s midpoint (Harben 416).
Little Tower Hill was a common northeast of the Tower of London, between East Smithfield and the Minories.
According to greatly diminished by building of
tenements and garden plots
by certaine
faire Almes houses, strongly builded of Bricke and timber, and couered with
slate for the poore
(Stow).
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The Cross was a wayside cross or calvary
that Henry Harben describes as being present [i]n Agas’ map at the junction of the Minories and Little Tower Hill
(Harben 417).