name of, i. 458, n. 3;Moravians, quarrels with the, iii. 122, n. 1;_muddy_, uses the term, ii. 362, n. 3;Nash, silences, iv. 289, n. 1;Newgate prisons in London and Bristol, iii. 431, n. 1;'old woman, an,' iii. 172;Oxford, devotional meetings at, i. 58, n. 3;Paoli's arrival in England, ii. 71, n. 2;plain preaching, i. 459, n. 1;polite audiences, iii. 353, n. 5;politician, a, v. 35, n. 3;prisoners under sentence of death, iii. 121, n. 3; iv. 329, n, 2;almost regrets a reprieve to one, v. 201, n. 2;readings and writings, range of his, iii. 297, n. 1;Robertson's _Charles V_, ii. 236, n. 4;rod, taught to fear the, i. 46, n. 4;Roman Catholics, attacks the, v. 35, n. 3;Rousseau and Voltaire, v. 378, n. 1;Rutty, Dr., iii. 170, n. 4;St. Andrews, students of, v. 63, n. 2;sister, his, Mrs. Hall, iv. 92;slaves, religious education of, ii. 27, n. 1;solitary religion, v. 62, n. 5;tea, against the use of, i. 313, n. 2;travels and sufferings, ii. 123, n. 3; iii. 297, n. 1;University life in England and Scotland, i. 63, n. 1;Warburton, answers, v. 93;witchcraft, believes in, ii. 178, n. 3.WESLEY, Mrs. (mother of Charles and John Wesley), i. 46, n. 4.WEST, Gilbert, in the army, iii. 267, n. 1;translation of Pindar, iv. 28.WEST, Richard, describes Christ Church, Oxford, i. 76, n. 1;lines on his own death, iii. 165, n. 3.WEST, Rev. W., edition of _Rasselas_, i. 340, n. 3.WEST INDIAN ISLANDS in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;mentioned, ii. 455:see JAMAICA and SLAVES.WESTCOTE, Lord, Johnson and the Thrales visit him, v. 456, n. 1;Lord Lyttelton's vision, iv. 298;portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;mentioned, iv. 57, n. 1, 58, n. 3.WESTERN ISLANDS. See under BOSWELL, _Journal of a Tour to theHebrides, Journey to the WesternIslands_, MARTIN, M., and SCOTLAND, Hebrides.WESTMINSTER. See under LONDON.WESTMINSTER, Deanery of, resignation of the, iii. 113, n. 2.WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Chambers's epitaph, i. 219, n. 1;Cibber's, Mrs., grave, v. 126, n, 5;Goldsmith's epitaph, iii. 82;and Johnson at the Poets' Corner, ii. 238;Handel musical meeting, iv. 283;Johnson's grave, iv. 419, 423;Jonson's, Ben, grave, v. 402, n. 5;Macpherson's grave, ii. 298, n. 2;Milton's monument, i. 227, n. 4;Reynolds describes its monuments, iv. 423, n. 2;'walls disgraced with an English inscription,' iii. 85.WESTMORELAND, seventh Earl of,Chancellor of the University of Oxford, i. 348, n. 2;meets the Pretender in London, i. 279, n. 5.WETHERELL, Rev. Dr., Boswell and Johnson visit him, ii. 440;Johnson's letter to him, ii. 424;mentioned, ii. 356; iv. 308.WEY, River, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362, n. 5.WHARNCLIFFE, Lord, iii. 399, n. 1.WHARTON, Marquis of, iv. 317, n. 3.WHARTON, Rev. Henry, ii. 242, n. 3.WHEAT, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.See CORN.WHEATLEY, near Oxford, iv. 308.WHEATLEY, Mr. H. B., Wraxall's _Memoirs_, ii. 40, n. 4._Wheatly and Bennet on the Common Prayer_, iv. 212, n. 4.WHEELER, Rev. Dr., death, iii. 366, n. 4; iv. 233, n. 3;experience as a country parson, iii. 437;Johnson's liking for his talk, iii. 366, n. 4; 307;letter to him, iii. 366;mentioned, v. 458, n. 1.WHEELER, Mr., of Birmingham, v. 458.WHIGGISM, corrupted since the Revolution, ii. 117;hounds, its, iv. 40, 63;Lyttelton's vulgar Whiggism, ii. 221;no room for it in heaven, v. 385.WHIGS, almsgiving, against, ii. 212;_bottomless_, iv. 223;defined, i. 294, 431, n. 1;devil, the first Whig the, iii. 326; iv. 317, n. 3;every bad man a Whig, v. 271;Fergusson 'a vile Whig,' ii. 170;governed, not willing to be, ii. 314;hall fireplace, moved the, i. 273;humane one, a, v. 357;'is any King a Whig?' iii. 372, n. 3;nation quiet when they governed, iv. 100;parson's gown, in a, v. 255;pretence to honesty ridiculous, v. 339;scoundrel and Whig, ii. 444;Staffordshire Whig, iii. 326;Tories, enmity with, iv. 291;Tories when in place, i. 129;'Whig dogs,' i. 504.WHISTON, John, bookseller, iv. 111.WHISTON, William,Bentley's verses iv. 23, n. 3;'Wicked Will Whiston,' ii. 67, n. 1.WHITAKER, Rev. John, _History of Manchester_, iii. 333.WHITAKER, Rev. Mr., ii. 108, n. 2.WHITBREAD, Samuel, the brewer, iii. 363, n. 5.WHITBREAD, Samuel, M.P., the son, bill for parochial schools,iv. 200, n. 4.WHITBREAD, Miss, iii. 96, n. 1.WHITBY, Daniel, _Commentary_, v. 276.WHITBY, Mr., of Heywood, i. 84, n. 2.WHITE, Rev. Gilbert,hibernation of swallows, ii. 55, n. 2, 248, n. 1;Oriel College common-room, ii. 443, n. 4.WHITE, Rev. Dr., _Bampton Lectures_ of 1784, iv. 443.WHITE, Rev. Dr., of Pennsylvania, ii. 207.WHITE, Rev. Henry, of Lichfield, iv. 372-3.WHITE, Mr., Librarian of the Royal Society, ii. 40, n. 2.WHITE, Mr., a factor, v. 122.WHITE, Mr., tried to be a philosopher, iii. 305, n. 2.WHITE, Mr., v. 427, n. 1.WHITE, Mrs., Johnson's servant, iv. 402, n. 2.WHITEFIELD, Rev. George,Boswell, personally known to, ii. 79, n. 4;Bristol Newgate, forbidden to preach in the, iii. 433, n. 1;Johnson knew him at Oxford, i. 78, n. 2; iii. 409; v. 35;Law's _Serious Call_, reads, i. 68, n. 2;lower classes, of use to the, iii. 409;mixture of politics and ostentation, v. 35;'old woman, an,' iii. 172;oratory for the mob, v. 36;Oxford, persecuted at, i. 68, n. 1;Pembroke College, servitor of, i. 73, n. 4, 75; v. 122, n. 1;popularity owing to peculiarity, ii. 79; iii. 409;preaching described by Southey and Franklin, ii. 79, n. 4; v. 36, n. 1;_sconced_, i. 59, n. 3;_Spiritual Quixote_, ridiculed in the, i. 75, n. 3;Trapp's _Sermons_, attacked in, i. 140, n. 5.WHITEFOORD, Caleb, _Cross-readings_, iv. 322.WHITEHEAD, Paul,Churchill's lines on him, i. 125;Johnson undervalues him, i. 124-5;_Manners_, i. 125; v. 116.WHITEHEAD, William,_Birth-day Odes_, i. 402, n. 1;_Elegy to Lord Villiers_, iv. 115;Garrick's 'reader' of new plays, i. 402, n. 3;proposes him to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 320, n. 2;grand nonsense, i. 402;_Memoirs_ by Mason, i. 31;poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1.WHITEWAY, Mrs., i. 452, n. 2.WHITING, Mrs., iv. 402, n. 2.'WHO rules o'er freemen,' iv. 312._Whole Duty of Man_,its authorship, ii. 239;Johnson made to read it, i. 67;recommends it, iv. 311._Wholesome_ severities, v. 423.WHOREMONGER, ii. 172.WHYTE, S.,Home's gold medal, ii. 320, n. 2;Johnson's walk, i. 485, n. 1;Sheridan and the Irish Parliament, iii. 377, n. 2;Sheridan's pension, i. 386, n. 1.WICKEDNESS, no abilities required for it, v. 217.WICKHAM, iv. 192.WIDOWS, ii. 77.WIFE,'Artemisias,' ii. 76;buying lace for one, ii. 352;choosing fools for wives, v. 226;death of one, iii. 419;disputes with them, v. 226, n. 1;learned, none the worse for being, ii. 76, 128;negligent of pleasing, ii. 56;Overbury's lines, ii. 76;praise from one, i. 210;religious, should be, ii. 76;singing publicly for hire, ii. 369;story of an unfaithful wife, v. 389;of one who made a secret purse, iv. 319;studious or argumentative, iv. 32;superiority of talents, ii. 56.WIGAN, iii. 135, n. 1.WIGHT, Mr., a Scotch advocate, iii. 212, n. 2.WIGHTMAN, General, v. 140, n. 3.WIGS,bag-wigs now worn by physicians, iii. 288;tye-wigs, ib., n. 4;flowing bob-wig, iii. 325, n. 3;powdered, iii. 254:See under JOHNSON, wigs.WILCOX, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2._Wildair, Sir Harry_, ii. 465.WILKES, Dr., i. 148.WILKES, Friar, ii. 399.WILKES, John,Alderman, elected, iii. 460;Aylesbury, member for, iii. 73;Beauclerk's library, iv. 105;Boswellapologises for his intimacy with him, iii. 64, n. 3;defends him, v. 339, n. 5;relishes his excellence, in. 64;brings Johnson and him together, iii. 64;proposes a third meeting, iv. 224, n. 2;companion in Italy, ii. 11;dines with him, ii. 378, n. 1, 436, n. 1;enlivened by his sallies, i. 395;receives a letter from 'Lord Mayor Wilkes,' ii. 381, n. 1;writes to him, iv. 224, n. 2;Burke's pun on him, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3;want of taste, iv. 104;City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1;City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2;Courts of Justice afraid of him, iii. 46, n. 5;_Dedication of Mortimer,_ i. 353, n. 1;dress, iii. 68; iv. 101, n. 2;English tenacious of forms, iv. 104;_Fall of Mortimer_, iii. 78, n, 4;_False Alarm_, answer to the, iv. 30;Garrick's want of a friend, iii. 386;wit, like Chesterfield's, iii. 69;general warrants, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3, 73;George III praises his good breeding, iii. 68, n. 4;goat, the, not the kid, iv. 107, n. 2;Gordon Riots, iii. 430;'grave, sober, decent,' iii. 77;_Heroic Epistle_, attacked in the, v. 186;Hogarth, caricatured by, v. 186;Horace, a contested passage in, iii. 73;House of Commons afraid of him, iv. 140, n. 1;expunges the resolution for his expulsion, ii. 112:See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION;how to speak at its bar, iii. 224;Inverary, visits, iii. 73;'Jack Ketch,' iii. 66;Johnson's account of 'Jack's' conversation, iii. 183;'animosity' against him, i. 349;attacks him, ii. 135, n. 1; iii. 64; v. 339;attacks, i. 429, n. 1; iii. 64, n. 2;after their reconciliation, in. 79, n. 1;calls on, iv. 107;compared with, iii. 64, 78;_Dictionary_, letter _H_, i. 300, 349, n. 1;meets, at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 64-79, 201; v. 339, n. 5;second meeting, iv. 101-7;invites, to dinner, iv. 224, n. 2;letter to him, iv. 224, n. 2;and Mrs. Macaulay's footman, iii. 78;political definitions, i. 295, n. 1;repartee about a resolution of the House, iv. 104;says that he 'should be well ducked,' i. 394;sends him the Lives, iv. 107;talking of liberty, iii. 224;tete-a-tete with, iv. 107;_Junius_, suspected to be, iii. 376, n. 4;_Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL.D._, iv. 30, n. 3;libel, prosecution for, iii. 78;library, sells his, iv. 105, n. 2;Lord Mayor, iii. 68, n. 4, 459-460;kept from being, v. 339;_Memoirs_ by Almon, i. 349, n. 1;Middlesex election: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION;Monks of Medmenham Abbey, i. 125, n. 1;_North Briton_, No. 45, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3;Earl of Bute attacked, ii. 300, n. 5;oratory, on, iv. 104;'phoenix of convivial felicity,' iii. 183;physiognomy, ii. 154, n. 1;Pope's repartee, iv. 50;prison, in, ii. 111, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5, 460;profanity, his, iv. 216;quotation, censures, iv. 102;riots in London in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5;Scotland, raillery at, iii. 73, 77; iv. 101;sentimental anecdote, iv. 347, n. 2;Settle, the City Poet, iii. 75;Shelburne, opposed by, iv. 175, n. 1;Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;Sheriff, v. 186, n. 4;Smollett's letter to him, i. 348;'Wilkes and Liberty,' ii. 60, n. 2; v. 312;'Wilkite, no,' iii. 430, n. 4.WILKES, Miss, iv. 224, n. 2.WILKIE, William, D.D., Hume's Scotch Homer, ii. 53, n. 1; iv. 186, n. 2.WILKIN, Simon, editor of Sir Thomas Brown's _Works_, iii. 293, n. 2.WILKINS, Bishop, ii. 256, n. 3.WILKINS, landlord of the Three Crowns, Lichfield, ii. 461, 462; iii. 411.WILKS, the actor,acted Juba in _Cato_, v. 126, n. 2;Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 53;Johnson celebrates his virtues, i. 167, n, 1;manager of Drury Lane Theatre, v. 244, n. 2.WILL, free. See FREE WILL.WILL-MAKING, ii. 261; iv. 402, n. 1.WILLES, Chief Justice,'attached to the Prince of Wales,' i. 147, n. 1;Bet Flint's trial, iv. 103, n. 3;Johnson's schoolfellow, i. 45, n. 4.WILLIAM III,Dodwell, Henry, will not persecute, v. 437, n. 3;Irish, not the lawful sovereign of the, ii. 255;Johnson's_ Dictionary_, in, i. 295, n. 1;resplendent qualities, his, ii. 341, n. 4;Revolution Society, commemorated by the, iv. 40, n. 4;Shebbeare, satirised by, ii. 112, n. 3; iii. 15, n. 3;torture in Scotland, legal in his reign, i. 467, n. 1;'worthless scoundrel,' ii. 341-2;'that scoundrel,' v. 255;mentioned, iv. 342; v. 234.WILLIAMS, Anna,account of her, i. 232; ii. 99; iv. 235, n. i, 239, n. 4;allowance from Mrs. Montagu, iii. 48, n. 1; iv. 65, n. 1;from Lady Philipps, v. 276, n. 2;_Adventurer_, Bathurst's Essays in the, i. 254;benefit at Drury Lane, i. 159 n. 1, 393, n. 1;Bet Flint, did not love, iv. 103, n. 1;Bolt Court, room in, ii. 427, n. 1;Boswells envy of Goldsmith's taking tea with her, i. 421;'a privileged man,' i. 463; ii. 99;and the Jack Wilkes dinner, iii. 67;'loves,' ii. 145;carving, ii. 99, n. 2;conversation, i. 463;death, iv. 65, n. 1, 235;drunkenness, on, ii. 435, n. 7;eating, mode of, iii. 26;electrical experiments, ii. 26, n. 2;Garrick refuses her an order, i. 392;Gordon Riots, left London at the, iii. 435;'hates everybody,' iii. 368;Hetherington's Charity, ii. 286;illness, ii. 412; iii. 93, 95; 123, 128, 132, 211, 215, 363;iv. 142, 170, 233-4;jealousy, iii. 55;Johnson's attention to her, iii. 341;pleasure in her society, i. 232, n. 1; iii. 462;iv. 235, 239, 241, 249, n. 2;takes the sacrament in her room, iv. 235, n. 1, 270;tea with her, i. 421; ii. 99;turns Captain Macheath, iv. 95;Johnson's Court, room in, ii. 5;_Miscellanies_, i. 148, 177, n. 2; ii. 25-6; iii. 104;peevishness, iii. 26, 128, 220;quarrels with the rest of the household, iii. 368, 461;second sight, instance of, ii. 150;tea, mode of making, ii. 99;will, her, iv. 241;mentioned, i. 227, n. 2, 241, 242, 274, 326, 328, 350, n. 3,369, 382; ii. 45, 77, 164, 209, 214, 215, 226, 242, 269, 310, 333,357, 360, 386, 434; iii. 6, 44, 79, 92, 222, 269, 271, 313, 380;iv. 92, 210; v. 98.WILLIAMS, Sir Charles Hanbury,Johnson's pamphlet against him, ii. 33;speaks contemptuously of him, v. 268;lines on Pulteney, v. 268, n. 3.WILLIAMS, Helen Maria, iv. 282.WILLIAMS, Zachariah, i. 274, n. 2, 301.WILLIS, Dr. Thomas, _De Anima Brutorum_, v. 314, n. 1.WILMOT, Chief Justice, i. 45, n. 4._Wilson against Smith and Armour_, ii. 196, n. 1.WILSON, Father, ii. 390.WILSON, Florence, _De tranquillitate animi_, iii. 215.WILSON, Rev. Mr.,dedicates his _Archaeological Dictionary_ to Johnson, iv. 162.WILSON, Thomas, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489.WILTON,Boswell visits it, ii. 326, n. 5, 371;writes to Johnson from it, iii. 118, 122.WILTON, Miss, ii. 274.WILTSHIRE,militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4;mentioned, iv. 237.WINCHESTER,capital convictions in 1784, iv. 328, n. 1;cathedral, iii. 457;Franklin visits it, ii. 60, n. 2;Johnson visits it in 1762, i. 496, n. 2;mentioned, ii. 115.WINCHESTER COLLEGE,Johnson places Burney's son there, iii. 367;Morell visits it, v. 350, n. 1;Peregrine Pickle's governor, v. 185, n. 2.WINDHAM, Right Hon. William,account of him in 1784, iv. 407, n. 2;balloons, love of, iv. 356, n. 1;Burke's merriment, iv. 276;Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 438;Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4;Glasgow University, at, iii. 119;Horsley's character, iv. 437;Johnson's advice to him, iv. 200, n. 4;at Ashbourn, visits, iv. 356, 362, n. 2;attends, when dying, iv. 407, 411, 415, n. 1;his servant nurses him, iv. 418, n. 2;bequest to him, iv. 402, n, 2;gift, iv. 440;