Perth.
_Devil, Proper Name._--Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me
whether there are any persons now existing of the name of Devil; or who
bear the devil on their coat of arms? In 1847 I saw upon the panel of a
carriage in London the _devil's head_ for a crest. To what family does
this belong? "Robin the Devil" is mentioned in _Rokeby_, cant. vi. st.
32. The following is from the _Monthly Mirror_, August, 1799:
"Formerly there were many persons surnamed 'the Devil.' In an
ancient book we read of one Rogerius Diabolus, Lord of Montresor."
"An English monk, Willelmus, cognomento Diabolus. Again, Hughes le
Diable, Lord of Lusignan. Robert, Duke of Normandy, son of William
the Conqueror, was surnamed 'the Devil.' In Norway and Sweden
there were two families of the name of 'Trolle,' in English,
'Devil;' and every branch of these families had an emblem of the
devil for their coat of arms. In Utrecht there was a family called
'Teufel' (or Devil); and in Brittany there was a family of the
name of 'Diable.'"