Warwick Lane

City, Newgate Street (EC4) Took its name from the inn or house of the celebrated Warwick the King-maker. Stow mentions his coming to London in the famous convention of 1458 with six hundred men, all in red jackets, embroidered with ragged staves, before and behind, and was lodged in Warwick Lane, "in whose house there was often six oxen eaten at a breakfast, and every taverne was full of his meate, for hee that had any acquaintance in that house, might have there so much of sodden and rost meate, as he could pricke and carry upon a long dagger." (Reference: Smith's Streets of London, p. 320)