, 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 the Hebrides, Journey to the Western Islands, 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.