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[[Image:GrubStreet-London 300dpi.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=People congregate at the entrance to a narrow street, overlooked by two four-storey buildings.  Each floor of the right-most building projects further over the street than the floor below.  At the corner of each building, shops advertise their wares.  A cart is visible down the street, and one man appears to be carrying a large leg of meat.|19th-century ''Grub Street'' (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in ''(contracted; show full)re]].  In 1592 his half-brother attempted to shoot him with a pistol.  Shocked, he took a house on Grub Street and remained there, in near-total seclusion, for the rest of his life.  He died in 1636 and was buried at [[St Giles-without-Cripplegate|St Giles]] in Cripplegate.<ref>{{Citation | last = Souden | first = David | title = Welby, Henry (d. 1636) | publisher = oxforddnb.com | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28978 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/28978 | year = 2004 | accessdate = 2009-07-04
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[[File:Grub street map.jpg|left|thumb|alt=A hand-drawn colourless map shows a narrow network of streets and alleys.  Each is named.  The Church of St Giles is visible, as are parts of Moorfields to the east.|Grub Street, as recorded in [[John Rocque]]'s 1746 map of [[London]].  Its path was partly within [[Cripplegate]] [[Wards of the United Kingdom|Ward]], but outside the city walls of the [[City of London]].]]
(contracted; show full)ng and bitter rivalry between the two men, but may have been beneficial to both; Pope as the man of letters under constant attack from the hacks of Grub Street, and Curll using the incident to increase the profits from his business.<ref>{{Citation | last = MacKenzie | first = Raymond N. | title = Curll, Edmumd (d. 1747) | format= Registration required | publisher = oxforddnb.com | date = 2008-01 | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6948 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/6948 | accessdate = 2009-07-08
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Pope later immortalised Grub Street in his 1728 poem ''[[The Dunciad]]'', a satire of "the Grub-street Race" of commercial writers.<ref>{{Citation | last = Fulford | first = Robert | title = When hacks attract: Serious artists are drawn to tales of mercenary scribes | publisher = ''The National Post'' | date = 2003-08-19 | url = http://www.robertfulford.com/2003-08-19-hacks.html | accessdate = 2009-07-07}}</ref>  Such infighting w(contracted; show full) or notorious public figures.  [[John Church (clergyman)|John Church]], an independent minister born in 1780, raised the ire of the local hacks when he admitted he had acted 'imprudently' following allegations he had sodomised young men in his congregation.<ref>{{Citation | last = Clement | first = Mark | title = Church, John (b. 1780) | publisher = oxforddnb.com | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58284 | year = 2004 | format = Registration required | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/58284
 | last2 = Harrison | first2 = B.}}</ref>  Satire was a popular pastime&mdash;the [[Mary Toft]] affair of 1726, concerning a woman who fooled some of the medical establishment into believing she had given birth to rabbits&mdash;produced a notable dirge of diaries, letters, satiric poems, ballads, false confessions, cartoons, and pamphlets.<ref>{{Harvnb|Todd|1995|pp=1&ndash;2}}</ref>

===Later history===
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