Raphael (The French), Eustace Lesueur (1617-1655).
Raphael of Cats (The), Godefroi Mind, a Swiss painter, famous for his cats (1768-1814).
Raphael of Holland (The), Martin van Hemskerck (1498-1574).
Raphael’s Enchanter, La Fornarina, a baker’s daughter. Her likeness appears in several of his paintings. (See Fornarina.)
Rapier (The) was introduced by Rowland York in 1587.
He [Rowland York] was a Londoner, famous among the cutters in his time for bringing in a new kind of fight—to run the point of a rapier into a man’s body ... before that time the use was with little bucklers, and with broadswords to strike and never thrust, and it was accounted unmanly to strike under the girdle.—Carleton, Thankful Remembrance (1625).
Rare Ben. Ben Jonson, the dramatist, was so called by Robert Herrick (1574-1637).
Raredrench (Master), apothecary.—Sir W. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).
Rashleigh Osbaldistone, called “the scholar,” an hypocritical and accomplished villain, killed by Rob Roy.—Sir W. Scott, Rob Roy (time, George I.).
*** Surely never gentleman was plagued with such a family as Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, of Osbaldistone Hall. (1) Percival, “the sot;” (2) Thorncliff, “the bully;” (3) John, “the gamekeeper;” (4) Richard, “the horse-jockey;” (5) Wilfred, “the fool;” (6) Rashleigh, “the scholar and knave.”