Brewer's: Throgmorton Street

(London). So named from Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, head of the ancient Warwickshire family, and chief banker of England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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