Brewer's: Duke's

A fashionable theatre in the reign of Charles II. It was situate in Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. It was named from its great patron, James, Duke of York, afterwards James II. The modern Duke's theatre.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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