Chequer Alley.-On the west side of Old Bailey at the upper end of Black and White Court. In Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).

Strype calls it "Checker Yard" (ed. 1720, I. III. 281).

The site has been rebuilt.

Chequer Alley, Chequer Court.-On the west side of Bishopsgate Street. In Bishops-gate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 108-Boyle, 1799).

In Old Bethlem.

First mention : "Checker Alley," 1559-60 (Ct. H.W. II. 674).

Named after a tenement called the "Chekker" which belonged to the new hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate in parish of St. Botolph, 35 H. VIII. 1543 (L. and P. H. VIII XVIII. Pt. I, p. 538).

The site is now occupied by Broad Street Station.

Chequer Alley.-See Chequer Yard.