West out of Whitefriars Street at No. 16, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
First mention: "Brittain's Alley" (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 279).
In Horwood, 1799, "Britten's Court."
Crypt of late 14th-century work found under No. 4 forming part of the monastery of Whitefriars.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.