[St. Richard was an English prince, in the kingdom of the West Saxons, which it is probable he renounced that he might dedicate himself to the pursuit of Christian perfection. About the year 722, on his way to Rome, he died suddenly at Lucca in Italy. See Butler's Lives of the Saints, Feb. 7.]
Saint Irene or St. Erini.
—Can any of your correspondents direct me to where information may be found regarding the Saint Irene or St. Erini, from whom the Grecian island of Santorin takes its name?
Σ.
Bristol Dec. 1. 1851.
[Irene, Empress of Constantinople, A.D. 797-802, was one of the most extraordinary women in Byzantine history. The Greeks have placed her among their saints, and celebrate her memory on the 15th of August. Consult Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, and Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. xlviii.]
Replies.
COCKNEY.
(Vol. iv., pp. 273. 318.)
The following passages collected from various sources, will perhaps help to illustrate the origin and the several meanings of this word Cockney:—
Fuller's first sense is—