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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)

==History==
===Early history===
[[File:Grub street hermit.gif|right|thumb|upright|alt=A man sits on a large ornate chair, resting his left elbow on a desk, his clenched fist supporting his head. In his right hand, at his waist, he holds a walking cane.
   He wears a cloak and a long beard, and his slippered feet rest on a chequered or tiled floor.  On the desk lies an open book.  Above his head the wall contains a shelf, filled with books.  A picture hangs from the wall showing a country scene with a large mansion or castle|Henry Welby]]
(contracted; show full)ttle-grounds."<ref>{{Harvnb|Denton|1883|p=85}}</ref>  [[John Stow]] also referred to Grubstreete in ''A Survey of London Volume II'' (1603) as "It was convenient for bowyers, since it lay near the Archery-butts in Finsbury Fields", and in 1651 the poet [[Thomas Randolph (poet)|Thomas Randoph]] wrote "Her eyes are Cupid's Grub-Street: the blind archer, Makes his love-arrows there."<ref>{{Harvnb|Stow|1908|pp=356&ndash;374}}</ref>  
The ''The little London directory of 1677'' lists six merchants living in 'Grubſreet', and [[Costermonger]]s also plied their trade—a Mr Horton, who died in September 1773, earned a fortune of £2,000 by hiring wheelbarrows out.<ref>{{Harvnb|Anon|1863|p=33, 85, 109, 120, 126, 127}}</ref><ref name="Dentonp174">{{Harvnb|Denton|1883|p=174}}</ref>  Land was cheap and occupied mostly by the poor, and the area was renowned for the presence of [[Fever|Ague(contracted; show full)the formation of a Guild of [[stationer]]s.  Stationers were either [[bookseller]]s, [[illuminated manuscript|illuminators]], or [[bookbinding|bookbinders]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Patterson | first = Lyman Ray | authorlink = Lyman Ray Patterson | year = 1968 | title = [[Copyright in Historical Perspective]] | publisher = Vanderbilt University Press}}</ref>  [[Printing]] gradually displaced manuscript production, and by the time that the Guild received a royal charter of incorporation on May 4
, 1557, becoming the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers|Stationers' Company]], it was in effect a Printers' Guild.  In 1559, it became the 47th [[Livery Company|livery company]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

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