_Hugh_ (_Langmuir_), young man from the country, who comes to New York to seek his fortune and gets a clerkship. He becomes attached to an ambitious, but well-meaning girl, and to hasten their marriage, he embezzles one thousand dollars. He confesses it to her and attempts suicide. She pays the money out of her own savings and marries him. They begin the world together humbly and wisely.—Charlotte Dunning, _A Step Aside_ (1886). =Hugh, Count of Vermandois=, a crusader.—Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus). =Hugh de Brass= (_Mr._), in _A Regular Fix_, by J.M. Morton. =Hugh of Lincoln=, a boy eight years old, said to have been stolen, tortured and crucified by Jews in 1255. Eighteen of the wealthiest Jews of Lincoln were hanged for taking part in this affair, and the boy was buried in state. ⁂ There are several documents in Rymer’s _Fœdera_ relative to this event. The story is told in the _Chronicles_ of Matthew Paris. It is the subject of the _Prioress’s Tale_ in Chaucer, and Wordsworth has a modernized version of Chaucer’s tale. A similar story is told of William of Norwich, said to have been crucified by the Jews in 1137. Percy, in his _Reliques_, i. 3, has a ballad about a boy named Hew, whose mother was “Lady Hew of Merryland” (_? Milan_). He was enticed by an apple, given him by a Jewish damsel, who “stabbed him with a penknife, rolled him in lead, and cast him into a well.” Werner is another boy said to have been crucified by the Jews. The place of this alleged murder was Bacharach. =Hugo=, count of Vermandois, brother of Phillippe I. of France, and leader of the Franks in the first crusade. Hugo died before Godfrey was appointed general-in-chief of the allied armies (bk. i.), but his spirit appeared to Godfrey when the army went against the Holy City (bk. xviii.).—Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575). _Hugo_, brother of Arnold; very small of stature, but brave as a lion. He was slain in the faction fight stirred up by Prince Oswald against Duke Gondibert, his rival in the love of Rhodalind, daughter and only child of Aribert, king of Lombardy. Of stature small, but was all over heart, And tho’ unhappy, all that heart was love. Sir W. Davenant, _Gondibert_, i. 1 (died 1668). _Hugo_, natural son of Azo, chief of the house of Este (2 _syl._) and Bianca, who died of a broken heart, because, although a mother, she was never wed. Hugo was betrothed to Parisina, but his father, not knowing it, made Parisina his own bride. One night Azo heard Parisina in her sleep confess her love for Hugo, and the angry marquis ordered his son to be beheaded. What became of Parisina “none knew, and none can ever know.”—Byron, _Parisina_ (1816). =Hugo Hugonet=, minstrel of the earl of Douglas.—Sir W. Scott, _Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.).