Devil and Bag oʹNails (The)
.The public-house by Buckingham Gate was so called, but the sign was The Blackamoor’s Head and the Woolpack. (Remarkable Trials, ii. p. 14; 1765.)
The public-house by Buckingham Gate was so called, but the sign was The Blackamoor’s Head and the Woolpack. (Remarkable Trials, ii. p. 14; 1765.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.