Spiceal-street, anciently Mercer-street, from the number of mercers shops; and as the professors of that trade dealt in grocery, it was promiscuously called Spicer-street.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
If we take any medieval roll of names, we see almost at a glance that four such individuals as- John filius Simon William de la Moor Richard le Spicer Robert le Long exhaust the possibilities of English name-making-i.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley
His medieval representative was Spicer.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley