/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Silver of Guthrum, or Guthram’s Lane
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Fine silver; so called because in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the principal gold- and silver-smiths resided there.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.