CUTHAL, same as Uthal, one of the Orkneys.

CUTHBERT (St.), a Scotch monk of the sixth century.

CUTHBERT BEDE, the Rev. Edw.  Bradley, author of Verdant Green (1857.)

CUTHO’NA, daughter of Rumar, was betrothed to Conlath, youngest son of Morni, of Mora.  Not long before the espousals were to be celebrated, Toscar came from Ireland, and was hospitably entertained by Morni.  On the fourth day, he saw Cuthona out hunting, and carried her off by force.  Being pursued by Conlath, a fight ensued, in which both the young men fell, and Cuthona, after languishing for three days, died also.—­Ossian, Conlath and Cuthona.

CUTHULLIN, son of Semo, commander of the Irish army, and regent during the minority of Cormac.  His wife was Brag’elo, daughter of Sorglan.  In the poem called Fingal, Cuthullin was defeated by Swaran, king of Lochlin [Scandinavia], and being ashamed to meet Fingal, retired from the field gloomy and sad.  Fingal having utterly defeated Swaran, invited Cuthullin to the banquet, and partially restored his depressed spirits.  In the third year of Cormac’s reign, Torlah, son of Can’tela, rebelled.  Cuthullin gained a complete victory over him at the lake Lego, but was mortally wounded in the pursuit by a random arrow.  Cuthullin was succeeded by Nathos, but the young king was soon dethroned by the rebel Cairbre, and murdered.—­Ossian, Fingal and The Death of Cuthullin.

CUTLER (Sir John), a royalist, who died 1699, reduced to the utmost poverty.

Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall.  For very want he could not build a wall.  His only daughter in a stranger’s power, for very want he could not pay a dower.  A few gray hairs his reverend temples crowned, ’Twas very want that sold them for two pound....

Cutler and Brutus, dying, both exclaim, “Virtue and wealth, what are ye but a name?” Pope, Moral Essays, iii. (1709).

CUTPURSE (Moil), Mary Frith, the heroine of Middleton’s comedy called The Roaring Girl (1611).  She was a woman of masculine vigor, who not unfrequently assumed man’s attire.  This notorious cut-purse once attacked General Fairfax on Hounslow Heath, but was arrested and sent to Newgate; she escaped, however, by bribing the turnkey, and died of dropsy at the age of 75.  Nathaniel Field introduces her in his drama called Amends for Ladies (1618).

CUTSHAMAQUIN, an Indian Sachem, whose disobedient and rebellious son was “dealt with” publicly by John Eliot.  At the second summons and serious admonition, the lad repented and confessed humbly, “and entreated his father to forgive him, and took him by the hand, at which his father burst forth into great weeping.”—­John Eliot, The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel Breaking Forth Upon the Indians (1648).