Note 197 — BEPPO.[194]
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{160}[Monmouth Street, now absorbed in Shaftesbury Avenue (west side), was noted throughout the eighteenth century for the sale of second-hand clothes. Compare—
"Thames Street gives cheeses, Covent Garden fruits, Moorfields old books, and Monmouth Street old suits."
Gay's Trivia, ii. 547, 548.
Rag Fair or Rosemary Lane, now Royal Mint Street, was the Monmouth Street of the City. Compare—
"Where wave the tattered ensigns of Rag Fair."
Pope's Dunciad, i. 29, var.
The Arcade, or "Piazza," so called, which was built by Inigo Jones in 1652, ran along the whole of the north and east sides of the Piazza or Square of Covent Garden. The Arcade on the north side is still described as the "Piazzas."—London Past and Present, by H. B. Wheatley, 1891, i. 461, ii. 554, iii. 145.]