Peace to their shades! the pure Culdees
  Were Albyn’s [Scotland’s] earliest priests of God,
  Ere yet an island of her seas
  By foot of Saxon monk was trod.

  Campbell, Reullura.

CULLOCH (Sawney) a pedlar.—­Sir W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time, George III.).

CULPRIT FAY, a sprite condemned for loving a mortal maiden to catch the spray-gem from the sturgeon’s “silver bow,” and light his torch with a falling star.—­Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay (1847).

CUMBERLAND (John of).  “The devil and John of Cumberland” is a blunder for “The devil and John-a-Cumber.”  John-a-Cumber was a famous Scotch magician.

He poste to Scotland for brave John-a-Cumber, The only man renowned for magick skill.  Oft have I heard he once beguylde the devill.  A. Munday, John-a-Kent and John-a-Cumber (1595).

Cumberland (William Augustus, duke of), commander-in-chief of the army of George II., whose son he was.  The duke was especially celebrated for his victory of Cullo’den (1746); but he was called “The Butcher” from the great severity with which he stamped out the clan system of the Scottish Highlanders.  He was wounded in the leg at the battle of Dettingen (1743).  Sir W. Scott has introduced him in Waverley (time, George II.).

  Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain,
  And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plan. 
  Campbell, Lochiel’s Warning.

CUMBERLAND POET (The), William

Wordsworth, born at Cockermouth (1770-1850).

CUMNOR HALL, a ballad by Mickel, the lament of Amy Robsart, who had been won and thrown away by the Earl of Leicester.  She says if roses and lilies grow in courts, why did he pluck the primrose of the field, which some country swain might have won and valued!  Thus sore and sad the lady grieved in Cumnor Hall, and ere dawn the death bell rang, and never more was that countess seen.

[Illustration] Sir W. Scott took this for the groundwork of his Kenihvorth, which he called Cumnor Hall, but Constable, his publisher, induced him to change the name.

CUNEGONDE [Ku’.na.gond], the mistress of Candide (2 syl.). in Voltaire’s novel called Candide.  Sterne spells it “Cunegund.”

CUN’NINGHAM (Archie), one of the archers of the Scotch guards at Plessis les Tours, in the pay of Louis XI.—­Sir W. Scott, Quentin Durward (time, Edward IV.).

CU’NO, the ranger, father of Agatha.—­Weber, Der Freischuetz (1822).

CUNO’BELINE, a king of the Silures, son of Tasciov’anus and father of Caractacus.  Coins still exist bearing the name of “Cunobeline,” and the word “Camalodunum” [Colchester], the capital of his kingdom.  The Roman general between A.D. 43 and 47 was Aulus Plautius, but in 47 Ostorius Scapula took Caractacus prisoner.