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The Angel Inn public house was at the bottom of Wych Street, by the Strand. To the west, about half way along on the north side, was the New Inn , an Inn Of Court where Sir Thomas More received his early legal education, and, to the south, Lyon's Inn , an Inn Of Chancery where Sir Edward Coke was a student in 1578, which was replaced by a Globe Theatre and the Opera Comique in c.1863. At the western end was Drury House , the house of Sir Robert Drury , from which Drury Lane took its name, later rebuilt as Craven House by Lord Craven , and finally turned into a public house, the "Queen of Bohemia", named after Lord Craven's mistress, Elizabeth Of Bohemia , the daughter of James I . This building was later demolished, and replaced by the first Olympic Theatre . Jack Sheppard , the infamous thief, was apprenticed to a carpenter, Mr. Wood, on Wych Street; one of Sheppard's haunts, the White Lion tavern, was also on Wych Street. The Music Hall performer Arthur Lloyd lived at 39 Wych Street in 1892. EXTERNAL LINKS
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