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I REGRET that my article should have contained the errors to which Dr. Morley Davies draws attention. Stow wrote: “But in the yeare of Christ 1534. the 26. of H. the 8. the king hauing faire stabling at Lomsbery (a Manor in the farthest west part of Oldborne) the same was fiered and burnt, with many great horses, and great store of Hay. After which time, the forenamed house called the Mewse by Charing Cross was new builded, and prepared for the stabling of the kings horses.…” H. B. Wheatley in “London Past and Present” states that Bloomsbury is a corruption of Blemundsbury, the manor of the De Blemontes, Blemunds, or Blemmots. Blemund's Dyche, which was afterwards Bloomsbury Great Ditch, and Southampton Sewer divided the two manors of St. Giles and Bloomsbury. He adds: “There is an absurd statement, taken from Stow's Survey, that the name of Bloomsbury was originally Lomsbery. This could only have occurred by a misprint, in which the B was inadvertently dropped.”
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HUMBERSTONE, T. Bloomsbury. Nature 110, 250 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110250d0
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