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SUBJECT INDEX.

Notes and Queries, Jan. 2", 1917.

Welch or Welsh, "spelling of the national name,

I'D 7 W.-Uh l.i\v, ancient, and ancient Roman law,

187

Welsh table-customs, quotation, 1585, 207 Welthen as a female Christian name, 309, 376,

168 Wesley (Samuel), the Elder, his poetic activities,

220, 375 Wesley (Samuel), the Younger, c. 1730, his wife,

508

West (Benjamin), his allegorical painting, 349 Western Grammar School, Brompton, records of,

450, 535 Westminster Abbey, removal of memorials in, 189,

237 Westminster College, F. Grandineau, Professor of

French, c. 1835, 10 Westminster, " public houses " in, in 1701,

449

Westminster, whereabouts of views of, 108 " Whelping," 1673, meaning of the word, 488 Whitaker (Henry), M.P.for Shaftesbury, 1711-15,

172 White (Matthew), M.P. for Hythe, 1802-6, 1812-18,

129

Whitechapel, early references to the Mount, 31 Whittle (Francis), M.P. Westbury, 1809, 148 Wilberforce (Bishop Samuel) and Cecilia Maria

De Candia, c. 1872, 10 " Willett's time," new daylight calendar so called,

188 William the Conqueror, his sister married to Jean

Budd, 510 William III., his motto " Becepit, non rapuit,"

26, 96, 336, 454

Williams (John), M.P. Saltash, 1772, 148 Williams (Rev. John), M.A. Fellow of Oxford,

1783, 528

Williamson (Col. J. Sutherland), R.A., his paren- tage, 429, 475

Wills, Royal, the depository of, 489 Wilson (James), M.P. for York, d. 1830, 109,

178 Wilson (Richard) of Lincoln's Inn Fields, M.P.,

c. 1750, 34, 55, 74, 156, 213 Wilson (Walter), Nonconformist biographer,

b. c. 1781, 391 Wilson (William), M.P. for Ilchester, 1761-8,

172

Winchelsea ghost, negro in red uniform, 250 Winchester, list of the Recorders of, 210 Winchester (William Day, Bishop of), his wife,

408 Winchester College, ' The Trusty Servant,' 10 ;

the chaplains of Fromond's Chantry, 221

" Windose," meaning of the word, 1578, 148 Winstanley (Thomas), Camden Professor, Oxford,.

429 Winton (Philip), b. c. 1750, in Hereford, 266, 416,.

507

Winton family, 507

" Wipers," pronunciation of Ypres, 526 Witchcraft in Huntingdonshire, bibliographical

note, 521

' Witches of Warboys,' bibliographical note, 30 " With child to see any strange thing," early use

of the phrase, 171 Wolff (Joseph), 1795-1862, one of his letters,

288

Women of Spain and smoking, 430 " Women in white," custom of pardon-asking,

1695, 266 Wood, the superstition of touching for luck, 330,

418, 498

Wood (Nicholas), M.P. Exeter, 1708-10, 190 ' Woodman of Kent,' picture in oils, 71 Wordsworth (W.), his friend Jones, 60 ' Working-Man's Way in the World,' 1853, 16,

110, 175, 279 Wreck of the Grantham at Folkestone, 1744,

269

Wright (Goode), and the invention of the per- cussion cap, c. 1823, 27 Wright family, arms of, 77 Wrigley family of Saddleworth, 529 Wunderer ( Johann D.), his travels in Europe, 1589,

33 Wyndham (Edmund), J.U.D., c. 1580, prisoner ia

the Fleet, 509 Wynn (Sir J.) of Gwydyr, his wardrobe, 415

Xavier. See St. Francis.

Yates (Thomas), M.P. for Chichester," 1734-41,

109

Yellowhammers, folk-lore relating to, 190 " Yoghurt," mentioned in a letter from Turkey,

1555, 106

York (Cecily, Duchess of), her will, 109 " Yorker," meaning of the term in cricket, 209,

276, 376, 416, 478 Ypres, pronounced as " Wipers," 526