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Brewer's: Green Bag Inquiry
Certain papers of a seditious character packed in a green bag during the Regency. The contents were laid before Parliament, and the committee advised the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act (1817).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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