Spitalfields, in north-east London, derives its name from the hospital of St Mary, founded there in 1197 by Walter Brune and his wife Rosia. The manufacture of silk was established in Spitalfields by emigrants from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).
Spitalfields
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 649
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