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After a former tavern of this name as shown on John Rocque’s 1746 map of London. Gillian Bebbington in London Street Names says: “The Tudor Mitre in Fleet Street, where Shakespeare is supposed to have written a poem called From the Fair Lavinian Shore, originally stood a little west of this court, and a plaque marks its site outside Hoare’s Bank. Later the tavern moved to Old Mitre Court and was one of Dr Johnson’s favourite haunts, ‘where he loved to sit up late’ and entertain Goldsmith and Boswell.” The building was demolished in 1829 after the purchase of the site by Hoare and Co.