Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the Queen’s Head tavern, Duke’s Court, Bow Street, London WC2.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Go Shop. The Queen’s Head in Duke’s Court, Bow street, Covent Garden; frequented by the Under Players: where Gin and water is sold in three-halfpenny Bowls, called Goes; the gin is called Arrack.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: Go Shop. The Queen’s Head in Duke’s Court, Bow street, Covent Garden; frequented by the under players: where gin and water was sold in three-halfpenny bowls, called Goes; the gin was called Arrack.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 88: A half quartern of gin is ‘a go of Max’ for mixing at the parlour of the Queen’s head, in Duke’s Court, Bow-street; whence that house had formerly the surname of ‘the go’.