Chapter Jaup to Jellicot of J by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Jehu (Companions of). The “Chouans” were so called, from a fanciful analogy between their self-imposed task and that appointed to Jehu on his being set over the kingdom of Israel. As Jehu was to cut off Ahab and Jezebel, with all their house; so the Chouans were to cut off Louis XVI., Marie Antoinette, and all the Bourbons.

Jehu and Henry IV. While Ahab king of Israel was alive, Jehu was anointed king, and the heads of Ahab’s sons, enclosed in baskets, were sent to Jehu as an acceptable present.—2 Kings x. 9 (B.C. 884).

While Richard II. was still living, Henry [IV.] was anointed king of England, and the heads of the earls of Kent, Salisbury, and Holland, who had conspired against him, were sent in baskets to him as an acceptable present.—Froissart, bk. iv. ch. 119 (A.D. 1400).

Jekyll (Dr.) and Mr. Hyde. This is a remarkable allegory, illustrating the dual nature of man. Dr. Jekyll is an honourable man, beloved by all for his philanthropic labours. Mr. Hyde is positively loathsome, and from him all shrink as from one deformed and foul. He lives without restraint, and plunges into all manner of evil. The truth is that Dr. Jekyll is Mr. Hyde. He has discovered a potion by means of which he can change himself into Mr. Hyde, and another to effect the change back again into Dr. Jekyll. He says at the outset that he can be rid of Mr. Hyde at will; but not till Mr. Hyde commits a dastardly and outrageous murder does Dr. Jekyll promise to have no more to do with Mr. Hyde. Even then he does not make an absolute renunciation of the past, for he still keeps the house where he lived as Mr. Hyde, as well as the clothes he then wore. At last he locks the door which leads into Hyde’s house, and stamps the key underfoot. But it is too late. He finds himself transformed into Mr. Hyde without taking the potion; and, though to keep himself Dr. Jekyll, he often lapses. At last he can procure no more of one of the ingredients of the mixture, and commits suicide.—R. L. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

Jellicot (Old Goody), servant at the under-keeper’s hut, Woodstock Forest.—Sir W. Scott: Woodstock (time, Commonwealth).