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Marika

 

Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten (English Inn Signs, Exeter, 1985, p 252)) suggest that the Black Boy tobacconist sign may have been adopted for an inn where tobacco could also be purchased, and quotes Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair, "I thought he would have run mad o' the Black Boy in Bucklersbury, that takes the scurvy roguy tobacco there"

 

Might this help?

 

Peter