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country was Cluer in Bow church-yard, who engraved in 

 gvo. feveral of Handel's operas in fcore, in the neateft and 

 moil correft manner which we remember to have feen, par- 

 ticularly Julius Caefar, in 1720, which we keep as a 

 curiofity. 



Walsh, in Agriculture, a term provincially applied m 

 fome cafes to the peculiarly infipid tafte of fome vegetables, 

 roots, and other fuch fubltances. 



Walsh, Cape, in Geography, a cape on the coaft of New 

 Guinea. S. lat. 8° 24'. E. long. 137°. 



WALSHAM, North, a market-town in the liundred 

 of Tunftead and county of Norfolk, England, is fltuated in 

 a level near the fea, at the diilance of 15 miles N.N.E. from 

 Norwich, and 124 miles N.E. by N. from London. In 

 the year 1600, a deftruftive fire occurred here, which con- 

 fumed 118 houfes, befides many barns, ftables, malt-houfes, 

 &c. ; the value of which was eftimated at 20,000/. The 

 town now confills of three ftreets, which form an irregular 

 triangle. At the junftion of thefe is the parifh-church, the 

 tower of which fell down in 1724. In the chancel is a fine 

 monument, with an effigy, &c. to the memory of fir William 

 Pafton, knt., who died in 1608, aged eighty years. He 

 agreed, in 1607, with John Key, a mafon of London, to 

 ereft and fit up this tomb, with his efligy in armour, five 

 feet and a half long, for which he was to pay 200/. Sir 

 Williani fettled 40/. per annum on the free-fchool, and 10/. 

 a year on a weekly lefturer. In this parifh are meeting- 

 houfes for Quakers, Methodifts, Prefbyterians, and Ana- 

 baptifts. An annual fair is held here, and a weekly market 

 on Thurfday. In tl>e reign of Edward VI. bifliop Thirlby 

 built a market-crofs here, which, being damaged by the fire 

 above mentioned, was repaired by bifhop Redman. In the 

 population return of the year 181 1, this parifh is ftated to 

 contain 448 houfes and 2035 inhabitants. 



In the adjacent parifti of Bafton (lood Broomholme Priory, 

 founded by William de Glanville, in 1 1 1 3, for monks of 

 the Cluniac order ; the remains of this building, near the 

 fea-fide, fome time fince formed an interefting ruin ; but 

 moll of the walls are now incorporated with a farm-houfe, 

 and the rooms converted into domeftic offices. 



St. BemuCs Abbey, at Holme, in the parifh of Horning in 

 this hundred, was founded in a fenny place, called Cowholme, 

 where formerly was an hermitage, which king Canute, in 

 the year 1020, etlablifhed for black monks of the Bene- 

 diftine order. The ample endowments firfl granted were 

 further extended by Edward the Confeffor, the emprefs 

 Maud, and other royal perfonages. It was one of the 

 mitred abbeys, and its abbots had a feat in the houfe of lords. 

 This abbey was fo ftroiigly conflrufted, that it appeared 

 more like a caflle than a cloifter ; and was fo well fortified, 

 that William the Conqueror in vain befieged it, till a monk, 

 on promiie of being made abbot, betrayed the place : the 

 king performed the condition, but hanged the new abbot as 

 a traitor. Some foundations of the walls, which inclofed an 

 area of thirty-five acres, are yet traceable ; but the remains 

 of the once-ftately building are now no more, except part 

 of tlie magnificent gate-way, and this is partially obfcured 

 by a draining-mill erefted over it. — Beauties of England 

 and Wales, vol. xi. Norfolk. By J. Britten, F.A.S. 1810, 

 from Blomefield's Hiflory, &c. of Norfolk. 



WALSINGHAM, Sir Francis, in Biography, an 

 eminent ftatefm^n, was defcended from an ancient family of 

 Walfingham in Norfolk, and born at Chiflehurft in Kent. 

 Having completed his education at King's college, Cam- 

 bridge, he fought farther improvement by foreign travels, 

 and having remained abroad during the reign of queen 

 Mary, he was introduced to public bufinefs by Cecil on his 

 return to his own country. He commenced his political 



career as ambaflador to France, where he continued, dif- 

 charging his public duties with great afliduity and injury to 

 his own fortune, until the year 1573. His conduft in tliis 

 office is highly commended by Wicquefort ; and Dr. Lloyd, 

 in his " State-Worthies," pronounces a very flattering 

 eulogy on his political charafter. In 1573 he was ap- 

 pointed fecretary of ftace, admitted into the privy-council, 

 and knighted ; and fuch was his vigilance in guarding 

 againft plots which threatened to difturb the tranquillity 

 and fecurity of queen EHzabeth, that he is faid to have 

 maintained 53 agents and 18 fpies in foreign courts. In 

 1581 he went to France as ambaffador for the purpofe of 

 treating concerning a marriage between Elizabeth and the 

 duke of Anjou ; and on this occafion, it is faid, that " the 

 fickle coquetry of his miilrefs tried his patience, and exer- 

 cifed all his diplomatic dexterity." The refult of his 

 embafTy to Scotland in 1583 was a report of James's abilities 

 and learning more favourable than he really merited. In 

 the unhappy difpute that terminated in the execution of 

 Mary, Walfingham was a principal agent, and he has been 

 charged, as the reader will find under the article Elizabeth, 

 with recommending fome private method of putting that 

 unfortunate princefs to death ; but it has been thought that 

 the letter mentioned under that article, and faid to have been 

 iigned by him, is not genuine ; and that this is the cafe is 

 rendered more probable by the evidence alleged in proof 

 of Walfingham's having warmly oppofed fuch an aft of 

 villainy when propofed by the earl of Leicefler. After the 

 death of Mary, Walfingham was principally inftrumental 

 in producing a reconciliation between the Englifh and 

 Scottifh courts. This miniiler was a zealous Proteflant, 

 and feemed difpofed to countenance the Puritans, as the 

 moil zealous opponents of popery ; and he alfo manifefted 

 his attachment to the reformed religion by eflablifhing a 

 divinity-leclure at Oxford in 1586, for the purpofe of dif- 

 culTing the fundamental truths of Chriilianity, derived from 

 the fcriptures, and of thus forming a wider feparation be- 

 tween the ctinrcli of England and tliat of Rome. In ad- 

 vanced life, Walfingham retired from bufinefs ; and died in 

 April 1590, fo much in debt, notwithflanding the various 

 pofls and dignities which he occupied, that lie was buried 

 in St. Paul's privately and by night, left his body fhould be 

 arrelled. His poverty, however, feems to have been ex- 

 aggerated, though his expenccs in the conduft of public 

 bufinefs were known to be very great. His only daughter 

 was fuccelTively married to fir Philip Sidney, to the earl of 

 EfTex, and to the earl of Clanrickard. The negotiations 

 and difpatches of Walfingham, during his refidence at the 

 French court in 1570, were collected by fir Dudley Digges, 

 and pubhfhed in 1655, fol. Biog. Brit. 



Walsingham, Thomas, a native of Norfolk, was a 

 benediftine monk of St. Alban's, where he was chanter, and 

 probably regius profefTor of hiflory about the year 1440, in 

 the reign of Henry VI., as he flyles himfelf hiftoriographer 

 royal. One of his works is intitled " Hilloria brevis," and 

 commences with the clofc of the reign of Henry III., where 

 that of Matthew Paris terminates. Another performance is 

 intitled " HypodigmaNeuftrie," and gives an account of tlie 

 affairs of the duchy of Normandy, from the time of Rollo to 

 the fixth year of Henry V. The materials of this clironicler's 

 narratives are in good eftimation ; and were pubhfhed by 

 archbifhop Parker, Lond. 1574, fol. Nicolfon's Hiil. Lib. 

 Gen. Biog. 



Walsingham, Thomas, in the Hljiory of Mujic, was 

 the author of a treatife in the MS. of Waltham Holy 

 Crofs; for an account of which, fee Lionel Power. For an 

 account of Walfingham's treatife, fee the article Pro- 

 lation. 



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