=Gil´deroy=, a famous robber. There were two of the name, both handsome Scotchmen, both robbers and both were hanged. One lived in the seventeenth century and “had the honor” of robbing Cardinal Richelieu and Oliver Cromwell. The other was born in Roslin, in the eighteenth century, and was executed in Edinburgh for “stealing sheep, horses and oxen.” In the Percy _Reliques_, I. iii. 12, is the lament of Gilderoy’s widow at the execution of her “handsome” and “winsome” Gilderoy; and Campbell has a ballad on the same subject. Both are entitled “Gilderoy,” and refer to the latter robber; but in Thomson’s _Orpheus Caledonius_, ii, is a copy of the older ballad. ⁂ Thomson’s ballad places Gilderoy in the reign of Mary, “queen of Scots,” but this is not consistent with the tradition of his robbing Richelieu and Cromwell. We want a third Gilderoy for the reign of Queen Mary—one living in the sixteenth century. =Gilding a Boy.= A naked boy was gilded all over, to adorn a pageant when Leo X. was made Pope, and died of suffocation.—Vasari, _Life of Puntormo_. =Gildip´pe= (3 _syl._) wife of Edward, an English baron, who accompanied her husband to Jerusalem, and performed prodigies of valor in the war (bk. ix.). Both she and her husband were slain by Solyman (bk. xx.).—Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575). =Giles=, a farmer in love with Patty, “the maid of the mill” and promised to him by her father; but Patty refuses to marry him. Ultimately, “the maid of the mill” marries Lord Aimworth. Giles is a blunt, well-meaning, working farmer, with no education, no refinement, no notion of the amenities of social life.—Bickerstaff, _The Maid of the Mill_. _Giles_ (1 _syl._), serving-boy to Claud Halcro.—Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time William III.). _Giles_ (1 _syl._), warder of the Tower.—Sir W. Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.). _Giles_ (1 _syl._), jailer of Sir Reginald Front de Bœuf.—Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). _Giles (Will)_, apprentice of Gibbie Girder, the cooper at Wolf’s Hope village.—Sir W. Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (time,f William III.). _Giles_, the “farmer’s boy,” “meek, fatherless, and poor,” the hero of Robert Bloomfield’s principal poem, which is divided into “Spring,” “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter” (1798). =Giles of Antwerp=, Giles Coignet, the painter (1530-1600). =Gillfillan= (_Habakkuk_), called “Gifted Gilfillan,” a Camero´nian officer and enthusiast.—Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.).