Scriveners' Hall

Scriveners' Hall
   On the east side of Noble Street, in Aldersgate Ward (Leake, 1666-Strype, 1755).
   Formerly called "Bacon House" (q.v.).
   The Company of Scriveners were forty-fourth in rank of the City Guild, and incorporated 1616 as the Society of Writers of the City of London.
   Being reduced to low circumstances they sold their Hall to the Company of Coachmakers.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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