the Devil Tavern
Note by Henry Craik to Letters 6 from Journal To Stella

Was a tavern of note as a place of literary resort from the days of Ben Jonson downwards. It was, indeed, as closely associated with the name of Jonson, as Will's was with that of Dryden, or Button's with that of Addison. It was close to Temple Bar, and from the neighbourhood of St. Dunstan's Church had originally been named St. Dunstan's Tavern. But the signboard shewed the familiar scene of St. Dunstan seizing the Devil's nose with his tongs ; and the saint's name was accordingly replaced in popular parlance by that of the Devil. The chief room was called the Apollo, and the rules of the Society that met there were set up over the chimney in letters of gold. See Tatler, No. 79.