Reading. Became a London merchant and a member of the Merchant Taylors’
Company. In 1544 he was elected an Alderman for Cornhill, but refusing
to serve was committed to Newgate. In 1547 he was appointed Sheriff
and some years later (1554) was elected Lord Mayor of London. He
sat on the Commission for the trial of lady Jane Grey, received the
Spanish envoys and restored the custom of going in procession to St.
Paul’s Cathedral to attend high mass. Upon the outbreak of the Wyatt
rebellion Mary appealed to the loyalty of the citizens of London, who
in response undertook to raise a force of 1,000 men for its defence.
These precautions taken by the Mayor and Council prevented Wyatt from
entering the city, the rebels being repulsed from Southwark Bridge by
White, who arrested the marquis of Northampton, and presided over the
Commission at the trial of Wyatt and his adherents. In 1544 an attempt
was made to assassinate him whilst attending St. Paul’s, caused by his
issuing a proclamation that the citizens of London should follow the
Roman Catholic religion. In the following year he obtained the royal
licence to found St. John’s College, Oxford, and subsequently went to
reside in that city. He died in February 1567 and was buried in the
College Chapel (1492-1567).
_Queen Mary._
THOMAS WYATT.
Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger son of sir Thomas Wyatt the elder. When a
boy he accompanied his father to Spain, where the elder sir Thomas was
threatened by the inquisition.
I know Spain. I have been there with my father; I have seen them in
their own land; have marked the haughtiness of their nobles; the
cruelty of their priests.
On the death of his father in 1542 he succeeded to the title and
estates, and in the following year was arrested with the earl of
Surrey and others for having eaten meat during Lent, and committed to
the Tower, where he remained for about a month. When the announcement
of the marriage of Mary with Philip was made, Wyatt regarded it as
a national danger, and receiving an invitation from Courtenay, earl
of Devon, to join in an insurrection for the purpose of preventing
it, undertook to raise the county of Kent. Making Rochester his
headquarters he marched to Blackheath at the head of four thousand men.
Being proclaimed a traitor some two thousand men were enrolled for the
protection of the city of London, bridges over the Thames were either
strongly guarded or broken down and a reward set upon his head.
_Wyatt_ (_reads_). ‘Whosoever will apprehend the traitor Thomas Wyatt
shall have a hundred pounds for reward.’
On February 3, 1554, he entered Southwark, but many of his followers
deserting him was compelled to evacuate it, marched to Kingston where
he arrived on February 6, thence through Kensington and reached Ludgate
on the morning of February 8. Finding the gate shut against him he
retreated to Temple Bar, and finding his cause was lost surrendered. He
was taken to the Tower, tried for high treason, condemned and beheaded
on Tower Hill, April 11, 1554. On the following day his head (which was
stolen some days later), was hanged to a gallows near Hyde Park, and
his limbs were distributed among gibbets in various parts of the city
of London (1521-1554).
_Queen Mary._
THOR.
The Norse god of thunder.
_The Victim_;
_Harold_.
THOULOUSE.
_See_ =Toulouse=.
THREE HUNDRED.
The ‘Three Hundred’ were two squadrons of the Scots Greys and the 2nd
squadron of Inniskillings known as the Heavy Brigade who made the
famous charge at Balaclava.
Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they made!
Glory to all the three hundred, and all the Brigade.
_Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava._
THROSTLE.
= The song-thrush, or mavis.
_To the Queen_;
_Claribel_;
_Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere_;
_The Window_;
_Early Spring_;
_The Foresters_.
THRUSH.
A bird of the family _Turdidæ_. It is noted for the sweetness of its
song.
_In Memoriam._
THURKILL.
A rich landowner of Kingston in Berkshire, killed at the battle of
Senlac.
_Harold._
THURNABY HOÄLMS.
But godamoighty a moost taäke meä an’ taäke ma now
Wi’ aäf the cows to cauve an’ Thurnaby hoälms to plow!
_Northern Farmer, Old Style._
THURNABY WAÄSTE.
I weänt saäy men be loiars, thaw summun said it in ’aäste:
But ’e reäds wonn sarmin a weeäk, an’ I ’a stubb’d Thurnaby waäste.
_Northern Farmer, Old Style._
THURSBY THURN.
I could fettle and clump owd booöts and shoes wi’ the best on ’em
all,
As fer as fro’ Thursby thurn hup to Harmsby and Hutterby Hall.
_Northern Cobbler._
TIB.
A country wife.
_Queen Mary._
TIGER.
A fierce quadruped of the feline kind, native of southern Asia and East
Indies.
_Palace of Art_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Defence of Lucknow_;
_Demeter and Persephone_;
_Akbar’s Dream_;
_Making of Man_;
_Harold_.
TIGER-CAT.
= A wild-cat.
_The Princess._
TIGER-LILY.
= A species of lily with spotted flowers.
_A Spirit Haunts, etc._
TIGRESS.
= The female of the tiger.
_The Princess_;
_Queen Mary_.
TIGRIS.
A river in Asia, which rises in the mountains of Kurdistan, and flows
into the Persian gulf. On its banks are the ruins of Nineveh.
_Recollections of the Arabian Nights._
TIMOUR-MAMMON.
And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children’s bones,
_Timour_ represents the spirit of avarice (_see_ =Timur=), and
_Mammon_ is the Syrian god of wealth.
_Maud._
TIMUR.
Timur built his ghastly tower of eighty thousand human skulls,
Refers to Timurbeg, the celebrated Tartar conqueror. He was a typical
Asiatic despot, and inspiring a lust for conquest built up a mighty
empire. Whilst engaged in an expedition in India, Bagdad revolted, and
hastening back he gave the city up to pillage and put to death 80,000
persons. Resolved to make the conquest of China he set out at the head
of a large army, but died on the march (1336-1405).
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._
TINTAGIL.
A strong castle on the coast of Cornwall. It stands upon the summit of
a headland and is reached by a steep path through a rugged valley. In
Domesday Book it was entered as Dunchine, or Chain Castle. It was at
the foot of the rock upon which the castle stands that Merlin found a
naked babe upon the sands:
For there was no man knew from whence he came;
But after tempest, when the long wave broke
All down the thundering shores of Bude and Bos,
Then came a day as still as heaven, and then
They found a naked child upon the sands
Of dark Tintagil by the Cornish sea;
And that was Arthur; and they foster’d him
Till he by miracle was approven King:
Close by is an immense cavern locally known as Merlin’s cave.
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Guinevere_.
TIRRA LIRRA.
‘Tirra lirra,’ by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.
An imitation of a musical sound as of the note of a lark.
The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,
With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,
Shakespeare: _Winter’s Tale, Act vi. Scene iii._
_Lady of Shalott._
TITANIA.
Queen of the Fairies.
_The Foresters._
TITIAN.
An Italian painter (1477-1576).
_Romney’s Remorse._
TITIANIC FLORA.
_See_ =Flora=.
TITMOUSE.
A small bird of the genus _Parus_.
_Maud._
TITYRUS.
Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers;
A shepherd; one of the characters in Virgil.
_To Virgil._
TOFT HALL.
in Somerset; the residence of Philip Edgar, afterwards known as Mr.
Harold.
_Promise of May._
TOM.
Name of men and cats.
_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts._
TOMMY.
Name of a boy.
_Northern Cobbler._
TOMMY.
Name of lovers and cats.
_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts._
TOMOHRIT.
Tomohrit, Athos, all things fair,
With such a pencil, such a pen,
You shadow forth to distant men,
I read and felt that I was there:
A mountain in Albania.
_To E. L._
TOMYRIS.
Queen of the Massagetæ. After her husband’s death she marched against
Cyrus (_q.v._), cut his army to pieces and killed him on the spot. She
then ordered the head of the fallen king to be cut off, and thrown into
a vessel full of human blood, remarking as she did so ‘There, drink thy
fill.’
And great bronze valves, emboss’d with Tomyris
And what she did to Cyrus after fight,
_The Princess._
TONUP.
= Turnip.
_Village Wife_;
_Owd Roä_;
_Church-warden and the Curate_.
TORRE.
Brother of Elaine and son of sir Bernard, baron of Astolat.
_Lancelot and Elaine._
TOSTIG.
Earl of Northumbria, son of earl Godwin (_q.v._). Was for some years
an exile at the court of Baldwin of Flanders. Upon the death of Edward
the Confessor he ravaged the south and east coasts, but being driven
away by Edwin and Morcar went to Malcolm, king of Scotland, where he
stayed for some time. Having invited Harold Hardrada (_q.v._), king of
Norway, to assist him in conquering England, he met the Norway king off
Northumbria and they sailed up the Humber and defeated Edwin and Morcar
at Fulford Bridge, but was in turn defeated by Harold at the battle of
Stamford-bridge, both Tostig and Hardrada being among the slain.
_Morcar._ May all invaders perish like Hardrada!
All traitors fail like Tostig!
_Harold._
TOULOUSE.
I speak after my fancies, for I am a Troubadour, you know, and won
the violet at Toulouse;
A city in the south of France. Henry II having laid claim to the
earldom of Toulouse, Becket accompanied the English army and fought as
a knight in armour, riding at the head of 700 troops equipped at his
own expense.
_Becket._
TOURNAMENT OF THE DEAD INNOCENCE.
But when the morning of a tournament,
By these in earnest those in mockery call’d
The Tournament of the Dead Innocence,
In the early days--the time of Gareth and Geraint--the ‘Tournament of
the Dead Innocent’ could have meant but one thing--the memory of the
dead innocent babe; but now there is another suggestion in the title,
for the purity of the ladies and the knights has faded: it is their
innocence that is dead.
This Tournament is the last, and it is a failure. As the gale makes
havoc with the emblem of the kings after the Quest of the Grail is
ended, so here the ‘useful trouble of the rain’ mars the pageant, and
makes it ‘draggled at the skirt.’ And the rules of tournament are not
enforced. Lancelot presides as arbiter, but he too is dreaming of dead
innocence, and takes so languid an interest that the laws of chivalry
are broken before him with impunity.--Littledale: _Essays_.
_Last Tournament._
TOWSER.
Name of a dog.
_Promise of May._
TRACY (Sir William de).
_See_ =De Tracy (Sir William)=.
TRAFALGAR.
at Trafalgar yet once more
We taught him: late he learned humility
Perforce, like those whom Gideon school’d with briers.
Has reference to the battle of Trafalgar.
_Buonaparte._
TRATH TREROIT.
And down the waste sand-shores of Trath Treroit,
Where many a heathen fell:
The scene of king Arthur’s tenth victory over the Saxons. It is
identified with a stream near the Solway Firth.
_Lancelot and Elaine._
TRAVELLER’S-JOY.
The _Clematis Vitalba_, a climbing plant with white flowers.
_Aylmer’s Field._
TREE-FERN.
A fern with a tree-like woody stem.
_To Ulysses._
TRIE (Sir Engelram de).
_See_ =Engelram de Erie=.
TRINACRIAN ENNA.
Tho’ dead in its Trinacrian Enna
Blossom again on a colder isle.
_Trinacrian_ = Sicilian. _Enna_ (_q.v._) was a city in Sicily.
_To Professor Jebb._
TRINOBANT.
Hear Icenian, Catieuchlanian, hear Coritanian, Trinobant!
The inhabitants of Trinobantium, an ancient British tribe who inhabited
the present counties of Middlesex and Essex.
_Boädicea._
TRISTRAM.
Son of sir Meliodas, king of Liones, and a Knight of the Round Table;
married Isolt, daughter of Howell, king of Brittany, but the marriage
was an unhappy one, on account of his attachment to Isolt his aunt, the
wife of king Mark (_q.v._) of Cornwall. This Isolt was the daughter
of king Anguish of Ireland, and Tristram escorted her to England as
bride for his uncle Mark, and on the morning of the marriage Isolt and
Tristram drank a love-potion which kindled in their hearts a passion
which compelled them to love each other as long as they both lived.
Tristram was slain by Mark while he was dallying with his aunt.
He spoke, he turn’d, then, flinging round her neck,
Claspt it, and cried ‘Thine Order, O my Queen!’
But, while he bow’d to kiss the jewell’d throat,
Out of the dark, just as the lips had touch’d,
Behind him rose a shadow and a shriek--
‘Mark’s way,’ said Mark, and clove him thro’ the brain.
Isolt, seeing her lover dead, flung herself upon his corpse and died
also. The two were buried in the one grave by order of king Mark, who
planted over it a rose and vine which became so interwoven that it was
impossible to separate them.
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Guinevere_.
TROAD.
Name of the region round about Troy.
_Death of Œnone._
TROAS.
A country in Phrygia in Asia Minor of which Troy was the capital.
_Œnone._
TROUBADOUR.
A class of French poets who flourished from the eleventh to the
thirteenth century.
_Becket._
TROUT.
A fresh-water fish of the salmon kind.
_Miller’s Daughter_;
_Walking to the Mail_;
_The Brook_;
_Church-warden and the Curate_;
_Promise of May_.
TROY.
A city of Troas, celebrated as the scene of the legend immortalized
by the _Iliad_ of Homer of the abduction of Helen of Sparta by Paris
(_q.v._), which led to the Trojan war. It was built by the gods Neptune
and Apollo for Laomedon, father of Tithonus, the stones of which are
said to have been placed in their positions to the sound of Apollo’s
lute.
O Caves
That house the cold crown’d snake! O mountain brooks,
I am the daughter of a River-God,
Hear me, for I will speak, and build up all
My sorrow with my song, as yonder walls
Rose slowly to a music slowly breathed,
A cloud that gather’d shape:
_Œnone_;
_Lotos-Eaters_;
_On a Mourner_;
_Ulysses_;
_Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse_;
_Death of Œnone_.
TSERNOGORA.
Great Tsernogora! never since thine own
Black ridges drew the cloud and brake the storm
Has breathed a race of mightier mountaineers.
The Slavonic name for Montenegro.
_Montenegro._
TUCK (Friar).
_See_ =Friar Tuck=.
TULIP.
A bulbous plant, with beautiful bell-shaped flowers of the genus
_Tulipa_.
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_.
TUNIS.
_Queen Mary._
TURBÌA.
What Roman strength Turbìa show’d
In ruin, by the mountain road;
How like a gem, beneath, the city
Of little Monaco, basking, glow’d.
A village near Monaco.
_The Daisy._
TURKISH ISLAM.
warriors beating back the swarm
Of Turkish Islam for five hundred years,
_Montenegro._
TURTLE.
A gallinaceous bird of the genus _Columba_.
_Progress of Spring._
TUSCAN POETS.
O bliss, when all in circle drawn
About him, heart and ear were fed
To hear him, as he lay and read
The Tuscan poets on the lawn;
_Tuscan_ = the literary dialect of Italy: _Poets_ = Dante, Petrarch,
etc.
_In Memoriam._
TYNE (river).
_The Foresters._
TYROL.
A crownland of Austria. It lies between Bavaria and Italy, and is noted
for the beauty of its scenery.
_The Princess._
ULAMA.
but our Ulama,
Who ‘sitting on green sofas contemplate
The torment of the damn’d’ already,
A body of learned men among the Mohammedans.
_Akbar’s Dream._
ULFIUS.
King Arthur’s chamberlain, and a knight of the Round Table. He
accompanied Uther when he entered the castle of Tintagel as the duke
of Tintagel to have access to the duke’s wife, Ygerne, the mother of
king Arthur. He afterwards assisted king Arthur in the great battle of
the kings, and was one of the three knights sent by Arthur to king
Leodogran to ask for the hand of his daughter Guinevere.
_Coming of Arthur._
ULRIC.
A leprous Crusader dwelling according to the custom of the Church and
the laws of God in a hut on a solitary moor. His wife refused to leave
him, saying she would live and die with him.
The leprosy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was supposed to
be a legacy of the Crusades.
_Happy._
ULYSSES.
Ulysses, much experienced man,
Whose eyes have known this globe of ours,
Her tribes of men, and trees, and flowers,
From Corrientes to Japan,
= W. G. Palgrave, author of a book of that name. Palgrave was a great
traveller, like the Greek Ulysses.
_To Ulysses._
UNICORN.
A fabulous animal mentioned by ancient authors, with one horn on the
forehead and a body like that of a horse. The Unicorn is mentioned in
the Old Testament.
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? _Job xxxix.
10._
_Holy Grail._
URANIA.
In Greek mythology the Muse of Astronomy, represented as holding a
staff with which she points to a globe.
_In Memoriam._
URANIAN.
This I seal’d:
The seal was Cupid bent above a scroll,
And o’er his head Uranian Venus hung,
And raised the blinding bandage from his eyes:
= Heavenly love.
_The Princess._
URIEN.
A king of north Wales. Husband of Morgan le Fay and father of sir
Gawain.
_Coming of Arthur._
USK.
A river of Monmouthshire.
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_;
_Balin and Balan_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_.
UTHER.
Pendragon of the Britons; married Igerna or Ygerne, widow of Gorloïs;
father of king Arthur. He succeeded his brother Aurelius (_q.v._), king
of the Britons, and defeated the Saxons under Vortigern and Hengist.
He then overcame Gorloïs, duke of Cornwall, and married his widow
Igerna. Uther commanded Merlin to make the Round Table and gave it to
king Leodogran who gave it to king Arthur as a wedding gift. Uther was
poisoned by the Saxons and buried at Stonehenge near his brother.
_Palace of Art_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Geraint and Enid_.
VALERY.
_See_ =St. Valery=.
VALHALLA.
_See_ =Walhalla=.
VALKYRIAN.
But great is song
Used to great ends: ourself have often tried
Valkyrian hymns, or into rhythm have dash’d
The passion of the prophetess;
In Scandinavian mythology the warrior nymphs who chose the slain in
battle for transportation to Walhalla (_q.v._) and who handed to the
warriors their drinking-horns at their daily feast with Odin.
_The Princess._
VAN DIEMEN.
And show you slips of all that grows
From England to Van Diemen.
= the island of Tasmania.
_Amphion._
VASHTI.
Wife of king Ahasuerus of Babylon, who was divorced, for refusing to
obey the king’s command. _Esther i._
_The Princess._
VAUNTCOURIER.
A word meaning ‘Forerunner.’
_Lover’s Tale._
VAVASOUR (MISS).
A schoolmistress.
_Promise of May._
VENICE.
A city and seaport of Italy and capital of the province of Venice.
_The Ring_;
_Queen Mary_.
VENUS.
In Roman mythology the goddess of love, the queen of laughter, and
the mistress of the graces and of pleasures, daughter of Jupiter and
Dione, and mother of Cupid. In Greek mythology she is identified with
Aphroditè (_q.v._). She is represented as presiding over flower-gardens
and vines, and is worshipped by gardeners, vine-growers and florists.
She had a temple built in her honour in the Forum by Cæsar in 46
+B.C.+ and in +A.D.+ 135 Hadrian erected a double temple in her
honour the ruins of which may still be seen. When Paris (_q.v._),
the shepherd-prince of Troy, was appointed arbiter to judge which of
the three goddesses (Juno, Pallas Athene, and Venus) was the most
beautiful, and which should be awarded the golden apple, the prize of
beauty, Venus, on appearing before him promised him as a bribe the most
beautiful woman in Greece as his wife.
Idalian Aphroditè beautiful,
Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells,
With rosy slender fingers backward drew
From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair
Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat
And shoulder; from the violets her light foot
Shone rosy-white, and o’er her rounded form
Between the shadows of the vine-bunches
Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved
* * * * *
She with a subtle smile in her mild eyes,
The herald of her triumph drawing nigh
Half-whisper’d in his ear, ‘I promise thee
The fairest and most loving wife in Greece,’
She spoke and laugh’d: I shut my sight for fear:
But when I look’d, Paris had raised his hand
And I beheld great Herè’s angry eyes,
As she withdrew into the golden cloud,
And I was left alone within the bower;
And from that time to this I am alone,
And I shall be alone until I die.
Paris handed the apple to Venus.
_Lucretius_;
_The Princess_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_The Cup_.
VERAGUA.
my lord,
I swear to you I heard his voice between
The thunders in the black Veragua nights,
A region in the western part of the Isthmus of Panama. It was named
by Columbus, who discovered it in 1502, and who attempted to found a
settlement there, but was driven off by the Indians.
_Columbus._
VERULAM.
The title of the barony conferred on Bacon by Elizabeth in 1618.
_Palace of Art_;
_The Princess_.
VERULAM.
The Roman name for the city of St. Albans. It was identical with the
fortress of Cassivellaunus destroyed by Cæsar in 54 +B.C.+ and it was
captured and burnt by Boädicea (_q.v._) in 61 +A.D.+
_Boädicea._
VESELAY.
A French town.
_Becket._
VICISTI GALILÆE.
Eve after eve that haggard anchorite
Would haunt the desolated fane, and there
Gaze at the ruin, often mutter low
‘Vicisti Galilæe’; louder again,
Spurning a shatter’d fragment of the God,
‘Vicisti Galilæe!’
Has reference to Julian, called the ‘Apostate,’ emperor of Rome for
eighteen months from 361-363 +A.D.+ On becoming emperor he renounced
Christianity and endeavoured to restore paganism, and is said to have
persecuted the Christians although there is no evidence to justify
it. He was the author of several works, one of which was in opposition
to Christianity. In an expedition against the Persians he was wounded,
and as he fell from his horse in a fainting condition, he exclaimed:
‘Vicisti Galilæe’ (‘Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!’) He was carried
to his tent and died the same evening, June 26, 363.
_St. Telemachus._
VICTORIA.
Victoria,--since your Royal grace
To one of less desert allows
This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter’d nothing base;
Queen Victoria.
_To the Queen._
VIENNA.
My blood an even tenor kept,
Till on mine ear this message falls,
That in Vienna’s fatal walls
God’s finger touch’d him, and he slept.
Capital of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, situated on the river
Danube.
_In Memoriam._
VILLA GARCIA.
One of the men who tried to induce Cranmer to sign and declare the
queen’s right to the throne, confess his faith before all hearers, and
retract the Eucharistic doctrine. He also helped with Soto to take
Cranmer to St. Mary’s Church, and with the choir helped to ‘strike’ up
the Nunc Dimittus.
_Queen Mary._
VINE.
A climbing plant which produces the grape, of the genus _Vitis_.
_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_The Cup_;
_Ode to Memory_;
_Mariana in the South_;
_Œnone_;
_Lotos-Eaters_;
_Dream of Fair Women_;
_Audley Court_;
_Amphion_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Death of Œnone_;
_The Daisy_;
_The Islet_;
_The Window_;
_Romney’s Remorse_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_;
_Demeter and Persephone_;
_To E. Fitzgerald_;
_Tiresias_.
VINE-AN’-THE-HOP.
An inn sign.
_Promise of May._
VIOLET.
One of the staff of the College for women founded by the princess Ida.
_The Princess._
VIOLET.
An herbaceous plant and flower of the genus _Viola_, of many species.
_Adeline_;
_Œnone_;
_May Queen_;
_Dream of Fair Women_;
_Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue_;
_Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_To Rev. F. D. Maurice_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Progress of Spring_;
_Becket_;
_The Falcon_;
_Promise of May_.
VIPER.
A European serpent whose bite is venomous.
_The Princess_;
_Merlin and Vivien_.
VIRGIL.
= The Latin poet.
_To Virgil_;
_Poets and their Bibliographies_;
_Queen Mary_.
VITUS (Saint).
A Roman saint martyred under Diocletian, and the patron of dances.
_The Foresters._
VIVIAN (Sir Walter).
Sir Walter Vivian--a gentleman supposed to be living at Maidstone Park,
when in 1844 a festival of the Mechanics’ Institution was being held
there, sir Walter himself being patron of the Institution. His house
was adorned with articles collected from all quarters of the globe and
all eras of history.
_The Princess._
VIVIAN-PLACE.
The home of sir Walter Vivian.
_The Princess._
VIVIEN.