uct of the
Duchess towards, 109; discovery of his origin, 110, 111.

VARCHI, Benedetto, his "Storie Florentine," iii. 183; remarks of Mr.
Merivale on, ib., note.

VARILLAS, his fictitious work on the Reformation, i. 132, note.

VASARI'S History of Artists, not entirely written by himself, iii.
131.

VATICAN, library of, i. 4.

VAUCANSON, his mechanical figures, iii. 284, note.

VAUDEVILLES, origin of the name, ii. 148.

VERSES, follies in the fantastical forms of, i. 295-300; reciprocal,
ib.

VICAR OF BRAY, story of the, i. 196; Dr. Kitchen, Bishop of
Llandaff, acted the same part, 197; type of, ii. 37.

VIDA, Jerome, from the humblest obscurity attained to the episcopacy,
i. 105.

VISION OF ALBERICO, ii. 422; of Charles the Bald, 423.

VIRGIN MARY, images of, frequently portraits of mistresses and
queens, i. 366; miraculous letter of, 367; Louis II. conveys
Boulogne to, ib.; Life of, by Maria Agreda, ib.; worship paid to, in
Spain, 368; system of, in seven folio vols., 369.

VIRGINITY, St. Ambrose's treatise on, i. 412.

WALKER, his account of the clergy of the Church of England who were
sequestered, &c., iii. 243.

WALPOLE, Sir Robert, his magnificent building at Houghton, iii. 191.

WALSINGHAM, Sir Francis, died in debt, iii. 192.

WALWORTH, Sir William, his private motive for killing Wat Tyler,
iii. 470, note.

WARBURTON, J., by neglect causes the destruction of old manuscript
plays, i. 54, note.

WAT TYLER, anecdote of, iii. 470, note.

WESTMINSTER elections always turbulent from the days of Charles the
First, iii. 461, note.

WHIG and Tory, origin of the terms, iii. 88.

WHISTLECRAFT'S Poem on King Arthur, ii. 496, note; imitated by Byron
in his Beppo, ib.

WHITELOCKE, his Memorials, ii. 212; his remembrances, a work
addressed to his family, lost or concealed, ib.; preface to the
Remembrances preserved, ib.; omissions in first edition of his
Memorials, ii. 448.

WIFE, Literary, i. 327; of Budaeus, 328; of Evelyn, who designed the
frontispiece to his translation of Lucretius, ib.; of Baron Haller,
ib.; Calphurnia, wife of Pliny, ib.; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle,
329; extract from her epistle to her husband, ib.; notices of the
wives of various celebrated men, 332-337.

WIGS, custom of using, i. 217-220; Steele's, 229.

WILKINS, Bishop, his museu