"I am your neighbour in the Skellum's Den, two cells down from you.

"I should thrash you within an inch of your life, you little skellum," he scolded.

Hence he is often called "skellum Grenville."

"We are putting you in the Skellum's Den, with all the really bad ones, the murderers and rebels and robbers.

Hal called a description of each of these persons to the unseen leader of the slave rebellion in the Skellum's Den.

That evening the two composed a message for Aboli to collect, to let him and Sukeena know that Althuda had been released from Skellum's Den.

In 1644, when Grenville deserted the parliamentary party, a proclamation was put out against him; in this there were attached to his name several offensive epithets, among them being skellum, a word probably derived from the German Scheim, a scoundrel.