Chapter Iris to Iroquois of I by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

who was imprisoned for life because he gave the Dauphin a box on the ears. (Mèmoires Secrets pour servir à l'Histoire de Perse. This cannot be, as the duke died in camp, 1683.
   (2) A young foreign nobleman, chamberlain of Queen Anne, and real father of Louis XIV. (A Dutch story.
   (3) Duc de Beaufort, King of the Markets. (Legrange-Chancel: L'Année Littéraire, 1759.) This supposition is worthless, as the duke was slain by the Turks at the siege of Candia (1669).
   (4) An elder brother of Louis XIV., some say by the Duke of Buckingham, others by Cardinal Mazarin. (See Voltaire: Dictionnaire Philosophique [Anna], and Linguet: Bastile Dévoilee.
   (5) Abbé Soulavie asserts it was a twin brother of Louis XIV., Maréchal Richelieu. This tale forms the basis of Zschokke's German tragedy, and Fournier's drama.
   (6) Some maintain that it was Fouquet, the disgraced Minister of Finance to Louis XIV.
   (7) Some that it was the Arminian Patriarch, Avedik.
   (8) Some that it was the Duke of Monmouth; but he was executed on Tower Hill in 1685.
   (9) In the Western Morning News (Plymouth, October 21st, 1893) we are told that Le Commandant Bazeries has deciphered a letter in cipher written by Louvois, Minister of War, to Catinat (Lieutenant-General in command of the army at Piedmont), desiring him to arrest M. de Bulonde for raising the siege of Conti; and to send him to the citadel of Pignerol.

"He was to be allowed to walk on the ramparts wearing a mask."

   Whatever the real name of this mysterious prisoner, he was interred in 1703 under the name of Marchiali, aged about forty-five. And the name is so registered in St. Paul's register, Paris; witnessed by M. de Rosarge (mayor of the Bastile) and M. Reilh (surgeon).

"The mask was made of black velvet on steel springs."

Iron-tooth [Dent de Fer ]. Frederick II., Elector of Brandenburg. (1657, 1688-1713.)

Iron Crown of Lombardy is so called from a narrow band of iron within it, said to be beaten out of one of the nails used at the Crucifixion. This band is about three-eighths of an inch broad, and one-tenth of an inch in thickness. According to tradition, the nail was first given to Constantine by his mother, who discovered the cross. The outer circlet of the crown is of beaten gold, and set with precious stones. The crown is preserved with great care at Monza, near Milan; and Napoleon, like his predecessor Charlemagne, was crowned with it.
   After the war between Austria and Italy, the Iron Crown was delivered by the former power to Victor Immanuel.

Iron entered into his Soul (The). The anguish or annoyance is felt most keenly. The allusion is to the ancient custom of torturing the flesh with instruments of iron.

"I saw the iron enter into his soul, and felt what sort of pain it was that ariseth from hope deferred." - Sterne: Sentimental Journey.

Iron Maiden of Nuremberg (The). An instrument of torture for "heretics," traitors, parricides, etc. It was a box big enough to admit a man, with folding-doors, the whole studded with sharp iron spikes. When the doors were pressed to these spikes were forced into the body of the victim, who was left there to die in horrible torture. (German, Eiserne Jungfrau.)
    One of these diabolical machines was exhibited in 1892 in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, and in London.

Irons (In). In fetters. "Mettre les fers aux pieds à [quelqu'un]."

Ironclad (An). A ship having the hull sheathed wholly or in part with plates of iron, to resist projectiles.

Ironclad Oath (The), 1866. An Act passed in North America excluding voters in the States lately in rebellion from the franchise; practically disfranchising all Southerners over twenty-five years of age.

Ironside Edmund II., King of the Anglo-Saxons, was so called, from his iron armour. (989, 1016-1017.)
   Nestor Ironside. Sir Richard Steele, who assumed the name in The Guardian. (1671-1729.)

Ironsides The soldiers that served under Cromwell were so called, especially after the battle of Marston Moor, where they displayed an iron resolution.