The " Mermaid " is sometimes described as in Bread Street, and at other times in Friday Street and also in Cheapside.
To his great surprise he found he had caught a beautiful mermaid.
It was in this block that the " Mermaid " was situated, and there appear to have been entrances from each street.
A real treat was to find a mermaid's purse entwined in the seaweed.
What makes this fact still more certain is the circumstance that a haberdasher in Cheapside living "'twixt Wood Street and Milk Street," two streets on the north side opposite Bread and Friday Streets, described himself as " over against the Mermaid tavern in Cheapside."