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 history, excepting the fact that he published another pamphlet in 1651, nothing is known.

Besides the two tracts signed jointly by Lilburne, Prince, and Overton, Walwyn was the author of the following: 1. ‘An Antidote against Mr. Edwards his Old and New Poison,’ 1646. 2. ‘A Whisper in the Ear of Master Thomas Edwards,’ 1646. 3. ‘A Word more to Mr. Edwards,’ 1646. 4. ‘A Prediction of Mr. Edwards's Conversion,’ 1646. 5. ‘A Parable or Consultation of Physicians upon Mr. Edwards,’ 1646 (see Gangræna, iii. 292, and The Fountain of Slander Discovered, p. 7). 6. ‘The Fountain of Slaunder Discovered,’ 1649. 7. ‘Juries Justified, or a Word of Correction to Mr. Henry Robinson,’ 1651.

Walwyn mentions also two other tracts as written by himself, viz. ‘A Word in Season’ and ‘A Still and Soft Voice’ (Fountain of Slander Discovered, p. 7). There is also attributed to him ‘The Bloody Project’ (see The Discoverer, i. 17, ii. 54); and he is said to have had a hand in the production of the first tract published in favour of liberty of conscience, referring probably to ‘Liberty of Conscience, or the sole Means to obtain Peace and Truth,’ 1643 [see, (1605?–1664?)].

Walwyn the leveller should be distinguished from William Walwyn (1614–1671), fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, who was ejected by the visitors of the university in 1648, made canon of St. Paul's in 1660, and published in that year a sermon on the restoration of Charles II, entitled ‘God save the King,’ and a ‘Character of his Sacred Majesty’ (, Fasti, ii. 61;, Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford, p. 549).

[Authorities given in the article; Notes and Queries, 9th ser. iv. 162.] 

WANDESWORTH, CHRISTOPHER (1592–1640), lord deputy of Ireland, born on 24 Sept. and baptised on 18 Oct. 1592 at Bishop Burton, near Beverley, was the son of Sir George Wandesford, knt. (1573–1612), of Kirklington, Yorkshire, by Catherine, daughter of Ralph Hansby of Gray's Inn (, Life of Wandesford, p. 1;, History of Richmondshire, ii. 147; Autobiogr. of Mrs. Alice Thornton, p. 345). About the age of fifteen Wandesford entered Clare College, Cambridge, where he was under the tuition of Dr. Milner. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 1 Nov. 1612 (, Gray's Inn Register, p. 131). Wandesford left Cambridge in 1612, just before the death of his father, and succeeded to an estate worth about 560l. per annum, but much encumbered by debts and annuities to relatives. By strict economy, the skilful management of his lands, and the judicious employment of his wife's marriage portion, he paid off all these encumbrances, and was able by 1630 to lay out large sums on building (, ii. 149–152, 157).

Wandesford represented Aldborough in the parliaments of 1621 and 1624, Richmond in 1625 and 1626, and Thirsk in 1628. In the contested election for Yorkshire in 1621 he was one of the strongest supporters of Sir Thomas Wentworth (afterwards Earl of Strafford) [q. v.], who was a distant kinsman of Wandesford (, p. 10), stood godfather to his son George in 1623, and was thenceforward his most intimate friend (Strafford Papers, i. 9, 17, 21, 32). In the parliament of 1626 Wandesford took a prominent part in the attack on Buckingham, being chairman of the committee which investigated the evidence, and one of the eight managers of the impeachment. He was specially charged with the conduct of the thirteenth article, accusing the duke of criminal presumption in administering medicine to James I during his last illness (, Life of Eliot, i. 489, 512, 578; Old Parliamentary History, vii. 147;, i. 207, 352; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1625–6, p. 292). In the parliament of 1628, when the king forbade the commons to proceed with any business which might asperse the government or the ministers, Wandesford was one of the proposers of the ‘Remonstrance’ which made the king assent to the ‘Petition of Right’ (ib. i. 607; Old Parliamentary History, viii. 193).

After 1629 Wandesford, like Wentworth, whose appointment as president of the north he had joyfully welcomed, passed from opposition to the service of the crown (Strafford Papers, i. 49). On 17 April 1630 he was appointed one of a commission to inquire into fees and new offices (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1629–31, p. 236). Wentworth's influence was the motive which led him to abandon his retirement and accompany his kinsman to Ireland. ‘My affection to the person of my lord deputy, purposing to attend upon his lordship as near as I could in all fortunes, carried me along with him whithersoever he went, and no premeditated thoughts of ambition’ (Instructions to his Son, p. 62). On 17 May 1633 the king appointed him a member of the Irish privy council, and he was sworn in on 25 July, the same day that Wentworth was sworn lord deputy. Before this date the mastership of the rolls in Ireland had been also