HOOLIGAN

term applied in latter part of XIX. cent. to London street ruffians of criminal cla . The earlier ‘garrotters’ were of a more brutal type, who half-strangled their victims from _ behind and rified their pockets. The *“Mohocks’ of the XVIII. cent., referred om to in the Spectator, belonged to a better cla , and though violence was often. it was chiefly with humorous mt. Prot. martyr; went to Switzerland during last reactionary years of Henry VIII. reforming preacher under Edward VII; * chaplain to Protector Somerset; bp. of Gloucester, 1550; objected to priestly vestments; pp. of Worcester in commen-~ Gam, 15523 imprisoned on Mary’s acce ion, 1553; burned at Gloucester, 1555; called ‘Father of Nonconformity.’