A ludicrous question admitting of no reply. William or “Billy” Patterson was the father of Napoleon’s brother’s wife; but “Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man.” See Notes and Queries, 10 S. xi. 218.
1847. Di—lemma—Who struck William Patterson?—Yale Lit. Mag., xii. 281 (April).
1858. Who was Casper Hauser? Who wrote De Imitatione Christi? Who was the man in the Iron Mask? Was there ever such a book as De Tribus Impostoribus? Who struck Billy Patterson? Who hit dis nigger?—Id., xxiii. 180 (April).
