NORTHUMBERLAND ALLEY

   South out of Fenchurch Street, at No. 78, to Crutched Friars (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward.

   First mention: 1649 (Ct. H.W. II. 767).

   Stow mentions it as a lane going by Northumberland House to the Crossed Friars (S. 141), but does not name it.

   Strype, Ed. 1720, says, "Northumberland House, now converted into Buildings and called Northumberland Alley" (I. ii. 82).

   By the Improvement Act of 1760 it was directed that a passage 25 feet wide should be made through the alley into Crutched Friars.

   See Northumberland House.