Brewer's: Goodluck's Close

(Norfolk). A corruption of Guthlac's Close, so called from a chapel founded by Allen, son of Godfrey de Swaffham, in the reign of Henry II., and dedicated to St. Guthlac.

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