The Cambridge senate-house is called "Curia," and therefore it may be
supposed that "Petty Cury" means "_parva curia_," from some court-leet
or court-baron formerly held there; the town-hall is at the end of it to
this day. The only objection to the above is, that in the Caius map of
Cambridge, A.D. 1574, now in the British Museum, Petty Curie is a large
street even then, whilst neither town-hall nor senate-house exist.