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 434 NOTES AND QUERIES. p* B. iv. NOV. 25, -99. P. 196 a. "Worse than man." fmad. P. 206 a. Gerald Valerian Wellesley was one of the twelve prebendaries who con- stituted the Chapter of Durham when the University was founded, and his portrait is in the hall of University College there. P. 225 b. "Somewhere about 1820." 1 Some time. Pp. 227-8. Ed. Wells had to support an aged mother who long suffered from stone pains (preface to ' Minor Prophets '). Some of his books were sold by Win. Wells. Oxford. The maps in his ' Dionysius' were dedicated to his distinguished pupils. The' Testimonies of Dissenters' was addressed to Peter Dowley, a Dissenting minister at Cotesbach. Dowley printed a ' Letter' to Wells; Wells reprinted it with his 'Answer,' third ed., 1706; his 'Letter' to Dowlev had a wide circulation and was issued from two presses simul- taneously, fourth ed., Oxford. 1706. Jos. Pierce issued ' Remarks ' on Wells's letter to Dowley, 1711. Wells had "double duty," was too poor to afford an " assistant," and suffered from " bodily indisposition" in a " tender part" (' Testimonies,' p. 47). Arthur Bedford acknowledged great assist- ance from the works of Dr. "Welles," ' Scrip- ture Chronology,' 1730 ; see Black wall, 'Sacred Classics,' ii. : De Morgan, 'Arithmetical Books'; ' N. <fe Q.,' 6th S. iii. 445. P. 232 b. After " Michael Thomas Sadler" add q.v. (1. 109). P. 242. Dr. Robert Welsted was a con- temporary at Magdalen of Abp. Boulter, who made him one of his executors, and forgave him what money he owed him. See more in Boulter's ' Letters,' i. 93-4 (Oxf., 1769). P. 242. R. Welton. See ' N. & Q.,' 1" S. ii. 355 ; 3rd S. i. 225 ; 4th S. v. 519 ; 5th S. xii. 222-3: 6th S. x. 249, 377 ; Hearne's ' Coll.' (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), iv. 136, 336, 377 (where the name is wrong). He translated from Portu- guese into English 'The Sufferings of the Son of God.' by Fr. Thomas of Jesus, 2 vols. 8vo., 1720. Two tracts about the altar-piece were : Tho. Barlow on 'Images in Churches, occasioned by a Painting in White-chappel Church,' 1714 ; 'Letter to the Bp. of London on causing the Picture over the Altar to be removed.' Also 'Case of Not Taking the Oaths, in a Prosecution by Dr. Shippen against Dr. Welton,' 1717. P. 252. Tho. Wendy took the place of Sir Wm. Butts. See Ascham's letter to him, ' Epistolse,' 1602, p. 440. P. 263 a. After "Chauncy" add q.v. (x. 171). P. 267 a. In Tottel's 'Miscellany,' 1557 (Arber, p. 175), is a poem on the death of Lady Wentworth, Lord Wentworth's wife, in premature confinement. P. 289 a. Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, d. 1739 ; add Wilkinson, 'Barnsley Worthies,* 1883, pp. 309-480. P. 317 a. Samuel Wesley "entered West- minster School, in 1704, under Richard Busby." This is an error; Busby died in 1695. P. 317 b. The notes of Samuel Wealey. of Tiverton, were used by Z. Grey in his ea. of 1 Hudibras.' He translated one of V. Bourne's Latin poems (1743. p. 71); one of his poems is in Curll's ' Miscellanea,' 1727, i. 134-7. P. 329 b. Ralph Yenning dedicated his ' Orthodoxe Paradoxes,' third ed., 1650, to Col. Frances West, Esq., Lieutenant of the Tower of London. P. 330 a. Richard West, Preb. of Win- chester, preached an assize sermon in the Cathedral there, in which he reflected on a sermon by Atterbury, 1706, who replied in a preface, 'Sermons,' 1723, ii., pref.,p. 74. West also printed a sermon before the Commons at St. Margaret's, 30 Jan., 1709/10, on Jerem. xxxi. 29, 8vo., Lond., 1710. P. 330 b. Gilbert West's imitation of Spenser, ' Gray,' by Mason, 1827, p. 93 ; he was a friend of James Hammond, ' Life' prefixed to ' Poems'; see ded. of John Allen's sermon at Stv Mary's Oxford, 24 Feb., 1772/3. Pp. 330-1. James West's further assistance to Hearne, in ' Langtoft,' Ixxix. 441, 550. P. 337. Bp. West opposed Latimer, and heard him preach, Wordsworth, 'Eccl. Biog.,' iii. 14-16. P. 338 a. One Richard West, B.A., student of Christchurch, was a brother-in-law of Tho. Randolph ; see the latter's 'Poems.' P. 347 b. On Richard Westell's 'Milton' see Mathias, ' P. of L.,' p. 442. P. 361. Hugh Weston. See 'Life of B. Gilpin in Wordsworth's ' Eccl. Biog.,' iv. 89, 125. P. 369 b. For " Bushby " read Buslcby ; see Iviii. 146 a ; ' N. & Q,,' 9& S. iv. 4. P. 373 a. For " Cleave " read Cleeve. P. 373. Stephen Weston is ridiculed in Gifford's ' Baviad ' and ' Mseviad.' P. 383. Wetenhall. Sermon in Exeter Cathedral, 26 July, 1668 : his preface to Hopkins is dated from " Peckham-place," 1691. P. 398. Peter Whalley • wrote verses for Hervey's ' Meditations,' 1750. P. 400. T. S. Whalley. See Roberta's ' Hannah More.' P. 406 a. For " Hernianse" read Hearniana (v. 222 a). Pp. 406-7. Henry Wharton's ' 21 Sermons' (vol. ii.), 1697; '14 Sermons,' second ed., 1700.