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Among other performances he is said to have "picked the pocket of Cardinal Richelieu in the king's presence, robbed Oliver Cromwell, and hanged a judge.'" The ballad concerning him is preserved in Ritson and Percy. Gilder sleeve (gil'dėr-slēv), Basil Lanneau. Born at Charleston, S. C., Oct. 23, 1831. An American cla ical scholar. He was profe or of Greek at the University of Virginia 1856-76, when he accepted a corresponding position at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). He has conducted the "American Journal of Philology" since its foundation in 1880, has published in grammar (1867), and has edited art The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus" (1875), "Justin Martyr" (1875), and "The Olympian and Pythian Odes of Pindar." Gildo (jil'do), or Gildon (jil'don). Died 398 A. D. A Moorish chieftain. He was appointed count of the province of Africa about 386. In 397 he transferred his allegiance from the Western to the Eastern Empire, and was in the following year defeated by a Roman army under his brother Mascezel. He was captured in the flight, and died shortly after by his own hand. Gild of Arquebusiers. A painting by Jan van Ravesteyn, in the town hall at The Hague, Holland. There are 25 figures, descending the stairs of the shooting-gallery. Gildun (gil-dön'), sometimes Yildun. A rarely used name for the fourth-magnitude star & Ursæ Minor is. Gilead, or Mount Gilead (mount gil'e-ad). In biblical geography, a part of Palestine east of the Jordan, extending eastward to about 36° E., and lying between the Hieromax on the north and the Arnon on the south. In an extended sense it included Bashan. Gileño (He-lā'nyō), or Gila Apache (He'lä apä'che). An Apache tribe of North American Indians, composed of four or more subtribes, the Coyotero, Mogollon, Pinal Coyotero, and Mimbreño. In 1630 the Gileño were about the boun. dary of the present Arizona and New Mexico. In 1882 they ranged east of the Sierra de los Mimbres and south of the Rio Gila. See Apache . Giles (jilz), Saint. [Gr. Αἰγίδιος , L. Ægidius , It. Egidio , F. Gilles , Egide .] A saint of the 7th century, believed to have been a Greek who emigrated to France. He was an anchorite, and was fabled to have been nourished by a hind. Gradually a monastic establishment grew around him, of which he became the head. The better to mortify the flesh, he once refused to be cured of lamene , and hence became the patron saint of cripples. St. Giles's Church, Cripple gate, is a memorial of him. His festival is celebrated in the Roman and Anglican churches on Sept. 1. Giles, Henry. Born at Cranford, County Wexford, Ireland, Nov. 1, 1809: died at Hyde Park, near Boston, Ma ., July 10, 1882. An Irish American lecturer and e ayist. He was for some years a Unitarian minister at Greenock and Liverpool. In 1840 he came to the United States. He wrote "Lectures and E ays" (1850), "Christian Thought on Life" (1850), and "Human Life in Shakespeare" (1868). Giles, St., Church of. See Edinburgh and Lon Gilboa (gil-bo'ä). ['Bubbling fountain' (?).] A mountain-range in the territory of I achar, 1,717 feet high, which bounds the lower plain of Galilee on the east, running from southeast to northwest. Here Saul and his three sons fell in a battle against the Philistines. The present name of the mound on. 1859. Va., Aug. 12, 1762: died in Amelia County, Dec. 4, 1830. An American Democratic politician. He was a member of Congre from Virginia 17901799 and 1801-03; was United States senator 1804-15; and was governor of Virginia 1827-30. Gilfil (gil'fil), Rev. Maynard. A somewhat unspiritual but conscientious clergyman in George Eliot's "Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story." and sparing habits, many knots and ruggedne es appearMr. Gilfil, the caustic old gentleman with bucolic tastes ing on him like the rough bo es of a tree that has been marred, is recognizable as the Maynard Gilfil "who had known all the deep secrets of devoted love, had struggled through its days and nights of anguish, and trembled under its unspeakable joys."