NEWINGTON-BUTTS, (Surrey) bet. Southwark and Lambeth, or Walworth, had the name of Butts, as some think, from the exercise
of shooting at butts, much practised here and in other Ts. of England, in the Rs. of Hen. VIII. K. Ja. I. and K. Cha. I.
to fit men for their service in the regiment of archers. But Mr. Aubrey thinks it had the name from the Butts of Norfolk,
who had an estate here. The drapers and fishmongers of London have almshs. here; from the last of which the village
extends to Kennington Common, as it begins at the S. end of Blackman-Street in Southwark. At this place the peaches were
first planted, which have been so much esteemed, and distinguished by the name of Newington peaches.