In support of this assertion it may be as well to state that Tory or Terry Island, on the coast of Donegal, is said to have taken its name from the robbers by whom it was formerly infested. Dr. Johnson also supports Burton's derivation of the word; he calls it a cant term, which he supposed to be derived from an Irish word, signifying a savage. Mr. G. O. Borrow (alias Lavengro), who has devoted much attention to the Celtic dialect, in a paper which he contributed some years back to the Norfolk Chronicle, suggested that the etymology of the word Tory might be traced to the Irish adherents of Charles II. during the Cromwellian era; the words Tar-a-Ri (pronounced Tory, and meaning Come, O King), having been so constantly in the mouths of the Royalists as to have become a by-word to designate them. So much for the word Tory, which from these premises is evidently of Irish origin. We now come to consider the derivation of the term Whig, concerning which there is not quite such a diversity of opinion. The first authority we will quote shall be Burnet, who says:

"The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year; and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that came from the north; and from a word, Whiggam, used in driving their horses, all that drove were called Whiggamors, and shorter, the Whiggs. Now, in that year (i.e. 1648), after the news came down of Duke Hamilton's defeat, the ministers animated their people to rise and march to Edinburgh; and they came up marching on the head of their parishes with an unheard-of fury, praying and preaching all the way as they came. The Marquis of Argyle and his party came and bearded them, they being about 6000. This was called the Whiggamors' inroad, and ever after that, all that opposed the court came in contempt to be called Whiggs; and from Scotland the word was brought into England, where it is now one of our unhappy terms of disunion."—Burnet's History of his own Times, vol. i. p. 43.

Such is Burnet's account of the derivation of this word, in which he is followed by Samuel Johnson, who has transcribed the above passage in his Dictionary. Kirkton also, in his History of the Church of Scotland, edited by C. K. Sharpe, Esq., in 1817, adheres to the same opinion: under the year 1667, he says:

"The poor people, who in contempt were called Whiggs, became name-fathers to all that owned one honest interest in Britain, who were called Whiggs after them, even at the court of England."

That the term Whig was originally from Scotland, I believe is a well-ascertained fact; but while some of our etymologists follow the opinion of Burton, others, with (as I think) greater show of reason, adhere to the opinion of Roger North and the historians Laing and Lingard, all of whom were of opinion that the original Scotch Whigs were called so, not, as Burnet supposes, from the word used by them in driving their horses, but from the word Whig being vernacular in Scotland for sour whey, which was a common drink with the people.

DAVID STEVENS.

Godalming.

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