English wine cask units the mediæval French and Italian "botte") or pipe was half a tun, or 1008 pints. Tradition has it that George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV of England, was drowned in a butt of malmsey on 18 February 1478. (However, Josephine Tey in "The Daughter of Time" suggests that "drowned in a butt of malmsey" means rather that George, Duke of Clarence, drank himself to death rather than literally drowning in a container of wine.) In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator claims he has received "a pipe of what passes for Amontillado".
Butt (name) in 1675, John Butt who settled in Conception Bay, Newfoundland, in 1706 and Joseph Butt settled in Crockers Bay, Newfoundland, in the same year. The Butt family is claimed to be originally from the village named But in Normandy, France and is patronymic in origin. An early reference to a related surname dates back to 1266 where Conrad Dictus Butze is registered in Freiburg, Germany. Butt (name) Butt is a German and an English surname whose origins lie in the South West peninsula region of England. The surname Butt or Butts is said to be derived from the French word