Taylor, William (of Norwich), 1765-1836. (GEORGE III., GEORGE IV.) m Translations from the German.

Tennant, William, 1784-1848. (GEORGE III., GEORGE IV., WILLIAM IV., VICTORIA.) m Anster Fair, 1812, a mock heroic poem in ottava rima, and other poems. T. also wrote a Memoir of Allan Ramsay.

Thornbury, George Walter, 1828-75. (VICTORIA.) p m Ballads, and miscellaneous biographical and antiquarian works, of which the chief is a Life of Turner, 1862.

Thrale, Hester Lynch (afterwards Mrs. Piozzi), 1739-1821. GEORGE III.) p Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, 1786. m The Three Warnings.

Tighe, Mary, 1773-1810. (GEORGE III.) m Psyche, and other poems, 1805.

Tindal, Dr. Matthew, 1657?-1733. (WILLIAM and MARY, ANNE, GEORGE I., GEORGE II.) p Christianity as Old as the Creation, 1730, &c.

Tindal, Nicholas, 1687-1774. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) p Continuation of Rapin's History, 1744-77.

Toland, John, 1669-1722. (WILLIAM and MARY, ANNE, GEORGE I.) p Christianity not Mysterious, 1695, and numerous other works.

Tomkis, Thomas, xvii. cent. (JAMES I.) d Albumazar the Astrologer, a Comedy, 1615. It was revised by Dryden, with proIogue, 1668.

Tooke. (See Horne Tooke.)

Tourneur, Cyril, xvii. cent. (JAMES I.) a The Revengers Tragedie, 1607; The Atheists Tragedie, 1611, &c.

Townshend, Aurelian, xvii. cent. (CHARLES II.) a Tempe Restord, and Albions Triumph, masques, 1631.

Trivet, Nicholas, 1258 ?-1328. (EDWARD I., EDWARD II.) p Annales Sex Regum Angliæ (1136-1307), published for the Eng. Hist. Soc. in 1845.

(GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) Edward Search,' Esq., 1768.

Tucker, Abraham, 1705–74. P The Light of Nature Pursued, by Tuke, Sir Samuel, d. 1673. d The Adventures of Five Hours, 1662, a Tragi-Comedy, translated from Calderon's Los Empeños de Seis Horas.

Turberville, George, 1530-1600? (ELIZABETH.) m Trans. of the Heroycal Epistles' of Ovid, 1567; Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, &c., 1567.

Turner, Sharon, 1768-1847. (GEORGE III., GEORGE IV.,

WILLIAM IV., VICTORIA.) p History of the Anglo-Saxons, 1799– 1805. History of England from the Norman Conquest to 1509 (afterwards called History of England during the Middle Ages), 1814–23,&c.

Tusser, Thomas, 1515?-1580? (MARY, ELIZABETH.) m A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, first published in 1557. It was greatly enlarged in subsequent editions.

Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 1730-86. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) p Observations and Conjectures on some passages in Shakespeare, 1766. T. also edited the works of Chaucer and Chatterton.

Tytler, Alexander Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee, 1747-1813. (GEORGE III.) p Elements of General History, Ancient and Modern, 1801.

Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849. (GEORGE IV., WILLIAM IV.) p History of Scotland (from 1149 to the Union of the Crowns in 1603), 1828-43.

Tytler, William, 1711-1792. (GEORGE III.) p Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots, 1760.

Urquhart, or Urchard, Sir Thomas (of Cromarty), 16131661. (CHARLES I., COMMONWEALTH.) p The Trissotetras, or a most excellent Table for resolving Triangles, 1645; Logopandecleision; or, an Introduction to the Universal Language, 1653; History of Gargantua and Pantagruel, translated from the first three books of Rabelais, 1653, and other works. m Epigrams, Divine and Moral,

1641.

Vaughan, Henry (the 'Silurist'), 1621-95. (CHARLES I., COMMONWEALTH.) m Olor Iscanus, 1650; Silex Scintillans, 1650; The Mount of Olives, 1652; Flores Solitudinis, 1654; and other poems.

Wade, Thomas, 1805-1875. (WILLIAM IV., VICTORIA.) m Mundi et Cordis Carmina, 1835; Prothanasia, 1839.

Wakefield, Rev. Gilbert, 1756–1801. (GEORGE III.) p Enquiry, &c., concerning the person of Jesus Christ, 1784; and other theological works.

Walsh, William, 1663–1709. (JAMES II., WILLIAM AND MARY.) p A Dialogue concerning Women, being a Defence of the Sex written to Eugenia, 1691, &e. Walsh was the adviser of Pope, see p. 114, s. 79.

Walsingham, Thomas, circa 1400. (HENRY V.) p Historia Anglicana, 1272-1422, first printed in 1574; Ypodigma Neu

striæ, vel Normanniæ ab Irruptione Normannorum usque ad Annum Sextum regni Henrici V. 1574.

Ward, Edward, 1667-1731. (GEORGE I., GEORGE II.) p The London Spy, 1698-1700; Hudibras Redivivus, 1705-7, and various other works. For the Hudibras the writer was pilloried and fined forty marks.

Ward, R. Plumer, 1765-1846. (GEORGE III., GEORGE IV., WILLIAM IV., VICTORIA.) p Tremaine; or, the Man of Refinement, 1825; De Vere; or, the Man of Independence, 1827, and other novels.

Warner, William, 1558?-1609. (ELIZABETH.) m Pan, his Syrinx or Pipe, compact of Seven Reedes, &c., 1584; Albion's England, 1586. W. also translated the Menæchmi of Plautus.

Warren, Samuel, D.C.L., 1807-77. (VICTORIA.) p Passages from the Diary of a late Physician, 1837; Ten Thousand a Year, 1841; Now and Then, 1847; The Lily and the Bee, 1851, &c. Watson, Dr. Richard, Bishop of Llandaff, 1737-1816. (GEORGE III.) p An Apology for Christianity, 1776.

Watson, Thomas, 1560 (?)–1592. (ELIZABETH.) m 'ЕкαтOμ#abía; or, Passionate Centurie of Loue, 1582; Amyntas (in Latin), 1585; Teares of Fansie; or, Loue Disdained, 1593. The first and the last have been reprinted by Mr. Arber, 1870.

Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1799-1864. (GEORGE IV., ⚫WILLIAM IV., VICTORIA.) m Lyrics of the Heart, 1851, and other poems.

Watts, Dr. Isaac, 1674-1748. (GEORGE I.) p Legick, 1725; Improvement of the Mind, 1741, and other works; m Psalms and Hymns, 1707-19.

Webbe, William, xvi. cent. (ELIZABETH.) p A Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586, reprinted by Mr. Arber in 1870.

Wells, Charles, d. 1879. (GEORGE IV.) p Stories after Nature, 1822. α Joseph and his Brethren (under pseudonym of H. L. Howard), 1824. See Athenæum of April 18, 1876, and March 8, 1879, articles by Theodore Watts; also correspondence in the Academy for April, 1879.

Wesley, John, 1703-1791. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) pA Plain Account of the People called Methodists, 1749; A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation, 1763, &c. m Collection of Psalms and Hymns (with his brother Charles), 1738.

West, Gilbert, 1705 ?-56. (GEORGE II.) p Observations on the Resurrection, 1747. m Translation of the Odes of Pindar, 1749. Whetstone, George, xvi. cent. (ELIZABETH.) p An Hep

tameron of Civill Discourses, 1582. m The Rocke of Regard, 1576. ■ Historye of Promos and Cassandra (in two parts), 1578 (see p. 251, Measure for Measure, App. C.).

Whiston, William, 1667-1752. (WILLIAM and MARY, ANNE, GEORGE I., GEORGE II.) p A New Theory of the Earth, 1696; Essay on the Revelation of St. John, 1706; Sermons, 1708; Primitive Christianity Revived, 1712; Memoirs, 1749-50.

White, Rev. Gilbert, 1720-1793. (GEORGE III.) p Natural History of Selborne, 1789.

White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806. (GEORGE III.) m Clifton Grove and other poems, 1803. White's Remains were published by Southey in 1807, with a Life.

Whitefield, Rev. George, 1714-70. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) p Sermons.

Whitehead, William (the Laureate), 1715-85. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) m Poems. a The Roman Father, a tragedy, 1750; Creusa, a tragedy, founded on the Ion of Euripides, and played in 1754.

Whitelock,

Sir Bulstrode, 1605-76. (CHARLES II.) p Memorials of English Affairs (1625–60), 1682, &c.

Whitgift, John, 1530-1604. (ELIZABETH.) p Theological Works.

Whyte-Melville, J. G., 1821–78. (VICTORIA.) p Digby Grand, 1853; Good for Nothing, 1861, and other novels.

Wilberforce, William, M.P., 1759-1833. (GEORGE III., GEORGE IV., WILLIAM IV.) ↳ Practical View of Christianity, 1797. (See also p. 216, Samuel Wilberforce.)

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 1709–59. (GEORGE II.) m Poems, 1763; Odes, 1775.

(JAMES I.)

Wilkins, George (the Younger), xvii. cent. P The Painfull Aduentures of Pericles Prince of Tyre, 1608. Based upon Gower, see p. 254.

Wilson, Arthur, 1596-1652. (JAMES J., CHARLES I., COMMONWEALTH.) p The History of Great Britain; being the Life and Reign of King James I. (1603–25), 1653. d The Inconstant Lady, first printed in 1814.

Wilson, John, d. 1696. (CHARLES II.) a The Cheats, a comedy, written 1662; The Projectors, a comedy, 1664; Andronicus Comnenius, a tragedy, 1664.

Wilson, Sir Thomas, 1520 ?-81. (EDWARD VI., MARY, ELIZABETH.) p Rule of Reason, conteinying the Arte of Logique, 1551; Arte of Rhetorique, 1553.

Winifred. See Boniface.

Wireker, Nigellus de, xii. cent. (HENRY II., RICHARD I.) Speculum Stultorum, a satire on the scholars, ecclesiastics and monastic orders of the day. The hero is an Ass called Burnellus (brown), by which name the book is sometimes spoken of (v. Chaucer's Nonne Prestes Tale, 1. 491). Warton says the author was precentor of Canterbury Cathedral about 1200.

Wolcot, John, M.D. ('Peter Pindar'), 1738-1819. m Poems, 1778. These were followed by a long succession of numerous and satirical pieces.

Wolfe, Rev. Charles, 1791-1823. (GEORGE III., GEORGE V.) m Burial of Sir John Moore, included in the Remains of W., published in 1825.

Wollstonecraft, Mary (Mrs. Godwin), 1759-97. (GEORGE III.) p Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, 1787; Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792, &c. Her Letters to Imlay have recently (1878) been edited by Mr. C. Kegan Paul, author of the Life of Godwin (see p. 183, s. 121).

Wood, Anthony à, 1632-95. (CHARLES II.) p Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1674; Athene Oxonienses,

1691-2.

Worsley, Philip Stanhope, d. 1866. (VICTORIA.) m Poems and translations, 1863; Translations of the Odyssey, 1861–2; of the Iliad, 1865-8 (Bks. xiii to xxiv by Conington, see p. 270).

Wotton, Rev. William, 1666-1726. (WILLIAM III.) p Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning (Boyle and Bentley Controversy), 1694.