off the Army, 98; his speech on that occasion, 98; represents Agmondesham
in the Long Parliament, 99; is manager of the trial of Judge Crawley, 99; his
speech against the removal of Episcopacy, 99, 100; on the Parliament opposing
the King he retires from the House, 100; sends the King a thousand broad pieces,
100; his continuous speaking in the House, 100; one of the Commissioners who
treat with the King, too; his reception by the King, 100; "Waller's plot," 100-104;
also the design of Sir Nicholas Crispe, 101; Waller's sentence, 104; goes to France,
104; stays at Rouen, 104; birth of his daughter Margaret, 104; removes to Paris,
104; lives well, and amuses himself with poetry, 104; is obliged to sell his wife's
jewels, 104; is reduced to indigence, 104; solicits and obtains permission to return
to England, 104; lives at Halibarn, 104; his mother and Cromwell, 104; received
by Cromwell as his kinsman, 105; his statement as to Cromwell's style of conver-
sation, 105; produces, 1654, his "Panegyric of Cromwell," 10g; his poem on the
War with Spain, 105; recommends royalty to Cromwell, 105; the poem on the
death of the Protector, 105; the congratulation to Charles II., 106; sits in
Charles II.'s first Parliament for Hastings, 106; for other places in each of his
Parliaments, 106; his remarks as to the Duke of York's influence, 106; still keeps
up his reputation, 106; asks, 1665, and obtains from the King the Provostship of
Eton, 106; the grant refused by Clarendon, 106; his attack on Clarendon, 106;
again asks for the Provostship, 107; the lawyers decide that Clarendon's objec
tion is correct, 107; chosen, 1685, M.P. for Saltash, 107; writes "A Presage of the
downfall of the Turkish Empire," 107; is treated by James with kindness and
familiarity, 107; anecdotes respecting them, 107; his opinion as to James's fate,
107; the side taken by his heir, 107; consecrates his poetry to devotion, 107;
buys a small house at Coleshill, 107; goes to Windsor, 107; suffers from stagna-
tion of the blood, 107, 108; prepares himself for death, 108; takes, with his
children, the Sacrament, 108; his speech to the Duke of Buckingham, 108; his
death and burial, 108; Rymer's epitaph, 108; his children, 108; his cha-
racter, 108-110; his works, 110-117; the style and character of his verse,
117-119

Waller, Edmund, 109; succeeds to his father's estates, 109; represents Agmondesham,
109; turns Quaker, 109

Waller, Margaret, 108; marries Dr. Birch, 108

Waller, Miss Price, 102; said to have betrayed her brother's plot, 102

Waller, Robert, 95; father of the poet, 95; originally descended from the Kentish
Wallers, 95; leaves his son a fortune, 95

Waller, Stephen, 109; an eminent doctor of laws, 109; a Commissioner of the Union,

109

Waller, William, 109; a London merchant, 109

Waller's mother, 105; lives at Beaconsfield, 102; her interviews with Cromwell, 105;
her political opinions, 105

"Waller's Plot," 100-105

Walmsley, Gilbert, 203; his acquaintance with Smith and Ducket, 203; his opinion of
the story put forward by Ducket respecting Clarendon's History, 203; his house
the rendezvous of celebrated people, 204 que a ater best45

Walpole, Horace, his brief friendship with Gray, 4960

Walpole, Sir Robert, Chairman of the Committee of Secresy, 258; moves the im-
peachment by the Commons of Prior, 259; the panegyric by Savage, 319; his re-
ward, 319; promises but never gives, a place to Savage, 333; decides not to renew
Savage's pension, 341

Walsh, Joseph, 130; father of Walsh the critic, 130; admires Pope's Pastorals, 376;
his advice to Pope, 376

Walsh, William, 130; his father, 130; his birth, 130; his early entry at Wadham
College, 130; leaves without a degree, 130; studies in London and at home, 130;
becomes a critic, 130; also a man of fashion, 130; dresses ostentatiously, 130; sits
in several Parliaments, 130; is a gentleman of Queen Anne's horse, 130; his dis
sertation on Virgil's Pastorals, 130; begins, 1785, to correspond with Mr.
Pope, 130;
their subject, 130; his death, 131; his works, in prose and poetry,
Warburton, Dr., his apology for Pope's action with reference to "The Patriot King,"
412; his reply to Crousay's criticism on "The Essay on Man," 403; quarrels with
Bolingbroke, 404; obtains several preferments through Pope, 404; attacks Aken-
side for his belief in the efficacy of ridicule for the discovery of truth, 493;
opinion of Mallet's "Life of Bacon," 491

131

Welwood, Dr., 218; his character of Rowe, 218, 219

his

Wentworth, Elizabeth, 89; sister of Earl of Strafford, 89; wife of the third Earl of
Roscommon, 89; mother of Wentworth Dillon, the poet, 89
West, Gilbert, 456; parentage, 456; educated at Eton and Oxford, 456; joins the
army, 456; engages in civil business under Lord Townshend, 456; goes with the
King to Hanover, 456; made, 1729, Clerk Extraordinary to the Privy Council,
456; marries, 457; settles at Wickham, 457; made, 1748, a D.C.L., 457; publishes
"Observations on the Resurrection," 457; also "Evidences of the Truth of the
New Testament," 457; his friends at Wickham, 457; offered the tutorship of a
Prince, 457; made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council, 457; loses, 1755, his
only son, 457; struck with palsy and dies, 1756, 457

West, Rev. Dr., 456; publishes" Pindar," 456; father of the poet, 455

White, Mr., of Nayland, Essex, 279; attends Blackmore on his death-bed, 279;
publishes Blackmore, "The Accomplished Preacher," 279

Whitehead, Paul, 407; summoned before the Lords for his poem, "Manners," 407;
the summons dismissed, 407

Whitelock, 100; a fellow Commissioner with Waller for the Parliament to treat
with the King, 100; his supposition for the King's gracious reception of Waller,
100; his statement as to the tribunal before which Waller was sent, 104; OIL
Cromwell's desire for royalty, 106; his reception of the deputation that offers it, 106
Wilkins, Dr., 205; friend of Sprat, 205; Sprat's poem on, 205; helps to found the
Royal Society, 205; the first meetings held at his house, 205

Wilks, Mr., 306; becomes the patron of Savage, 306.

Witshed, Lord, Chief Justice of Ireland, 362; coerces the jury into convicting the
printer of Swift's pamphlet encouraging the use and improvement of Irish manu-
factures, 362; fails to do so in respect of "The Drapier Letters," 362
Wood, 362; obtains a patent to coin copper money for Ireland, 362; increases the
existing scarcity of the coin, 362; it is discovered that the coin is debased, 362;
attacked by Swift in "The Drapier Letters," 362; the coin universally refused, 362
Wood, on Mrs. Cowley's struggles for her son, 1; his remarks on Cowley's becoming
a physician, 5; his remarks on Cowley's failing to obtain the Mastership of the
Savoy, 6; his remarks on Cowley's retirement, 7; his remarks on the profitable-
ness of Denham's post of Surveyor of the King's Buildings, 33; his opinion as
to the condition of Butler's father, 77; on Butler's university, 78; his asserted
position of Butler, 79; on Dorset's, Sedley's, and Ogle's frolic in Covent
Garden, 120; his statements respecting Walsh's life, 130, 131

Woodcock, Catherine, 48; the second wife of Milton, 48; dies about a year after the
marriage, 48

Worsdale, James, 400; his assertion with reference to Caull's edition of Pope's
Letters, 400

Wotton, Sir Henry, advice to Milton how to travel, 40

Wycherley, 376; his acquaintanceship with Pope, 376; the reason of its termination,
376

YAVEN, Mr. John, of Sussex, 295; father of the poet, 295

Yalden, Thomas, 295; parentage and birth, 295; educated at the Grammar
School of Magdalen College, Oxford, and at that college, 295; his tutor Josiah
Pullen, 295; how he gets his scholarship, 295; his college contemporaries, 295;
writes a note on the capture of Namur, 295; its humorous criticism, 296;
writes a poem on the death of the Duke of Gloucester, 296; becomes, 1700,
fellow of his college, 296; takes orders, and obtains a living in Warwickshire,
296; chosen lecturer of moral philosophy, 296; writes a poem on the acces-
sion of Queen Anne, 296; asserted declaration of being a High Churchman,
296; received, 1706, into the family of the Duke of Beaufort, 296; becomes, 1707,
doctor of divinity, 296; gives up his fellowship and lectureship, 296; gives the
college a picture of their founder, 296; made rector of Chalbon and Cleanville,
296; holds three prebends in Devonshire, 296; is preacher at Bridewell Hospital,
296; falls under suspicion of sharing in Atterbury's Plot, and is arrested, 296;
charged with a dangerous correspondence with Kelly, Atterbury's secretary, 296;
his answer, 296; his papers seized, 296; called upon, and satisfactorily explains
the words "thorough paced doctrine," 296; is released, 296; dies, aged sixty-six,
297; his poems, 297

York, Duke of (James II.), 33; conveyed into France by Sir John Denham, 33

Yorke, Sir Philip, 332; President of the Court of King's Bench, 332; dismisses the
charge of obscenity against Savage, 332

Young, Rev. Edward, father of the poet, fellow of Winchester College, and rector
of Upham, 466; obtains the prebend of Gillingham Minor, 466; preaches, 1686,
instead of Bishop Ward, 466; appointed chaplain to William and Mary, 466;
and is made Dean of Sarum, 466; resigns his fellowship in favour of his son-in-
law, 466; dies, 1705, at Sarum, 466

Young Edward, 466; parentage and birth, 466; educated at Winchester College,
and New College, 467; removes to Corpus College, 467; nominated in 1708, to a
fellowship at All Souls', 467; takes, 1714, his B.C.L., 1719, his D.C.L., 467;
speaks the Latin oration on the laying of the foundation stone of the Codrington
Library, 467; his after opinion of this performance, 467; publishes, 1712, an
epistle to the Right Hon. George Lord Lansdowne, 468; writes recom-
mendatory verses to Addison's "Cato," 469; publishes poem on "The Last
Day," 469; asserted to be a paid Court writer, 469; publishes the "Force
of Religion, or Vanquished Love," 470; publishes verses on "The Death of
Anne," and "The Accession of George the First," 470; his letter on original
composition, 470; publishes "Busiris," 1719, 471; 1721, "The Revenge," 471;
the annuities left by the Duke Wharton, 472; laments the death of Addison,
472; publishes, 1719, a Paraphrase on part of the Book of Job, 472; his satires,
472-474; writes "Ocean," an Ode, 474; his Essay on Lyric Poetry, 475; takes
holy orders, 475; is made chaplain to George II., 475; withdraws "The
Brothers" from the stage, 475; his theological studies, 475; publishes, 1728, a
true estimate of human life, 476; his sermon, "An Apology for Princes or
Reverence for Government," 476; publishes, 1730, "Imperium Pelagi," 476;
obtains, 1730, the rectory of Welwyn, 476; marries, 1731, Lady Elizabeth Lee,
476; publishes the " Sea Piece," 470; publishes, 1734, the "Foreign Address," &c.,
477; loses, 1741, his wife, 478; the "Night Thoughts," 477-483; reproduces,
1753, "The Brothers," 483; writes "The Centaur," "Fabulous," &c., 483;
"The Old Man's Relapse," 484; receives an ode from Lord Melcombe, 484;
publishes, 1762, "Resignation," 484, dies, 1765, 486

2

Young, Robert, 208; engages with Blackhead to ruin Sprat, 208; his part in the
conspiracy, 208; its failure, 208