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government, defended by a caftle, in which a governor re- 

 fides, but without baftions ; the town is chiefly inhabited 

 by fifhermen, and is fituated on an idand called Wardoe, 

 the largefl of three. N. lat. 70° 1 6'. E. long. 

 30° 28'. 



WARDMOTE, in London, is a court fo called, which 

 is kept in every ward of the city ; anfwering to the eurtata 

 cnmitia in ancient Rome. 



WARDO, in Geography., a fmall ifiand in the Baltic, 

 E. of Aland, with a town. N. lat. 60° 15'. E. long. 

 20° 12'. 



WARDPENNY, Wardpsm, was formerly a cuftomary 

 due paid to the fheriff, or other officer, for maintaining 

 watch and ward. 



It was payable at the feaft of St. Martin ; and is ftill 

 paid within the manor of Sutton-Colfield, in Warwick- 

 fliire ; and that with fome very fingular ceremonies. 



WARDROBE, a clofet or little room adjoining 

 to a bed-chamber ; ferving to difpofe and keep a per- 

 fon's apparel in ; or for a fervant to lodge in, to be at 

 hand to wait, &c. 



Wardrobe, in a prince's court, is an apartment in 

 which his robes, wearing apparel, and other neceffaries, 

 are preferved ; under the care and direftion of proper 

 officers. 



His majefty has a great wardrobe, a removing wardrobe, 

 and divers (landing wardrobes, belonging to his bed-cham- 

 ber, in each of his palaces ; w'z. at Whitehall, Kenfington, 

 Windfor, Hampton Court, and the Tower ; each under its 

 refpeftive keeper. 



The removing wardrobe always attends on the king's 

 perfon ; as alfo on ambaffadors, at chriftenings, mafques, 

 plays, &c. It is under the command of the lord chamber- 

 lain : the iinder-officers are, a yeoman, two grooms, and 

 tliree pages. 



The great wardrobe is of great antiquity. Anciently it 

 was kept near Puddle-wharf, in a houfe purchafed for 

 that purpofe by king Edward III.; but, after the fire 

 of London, it was kept in York-buildings. The mafter 

 or keeper of which is an officer of great dignity : high 

 privileges were conferred on him by Henry VI. ; and 

 James I. enlarged the fame, and eredled the office into a 

 corporation. 



The officers are, the mafter or keeper, his deputy, and 

 his clerk, befides feveral other officers ; and above fixty 

 tradefmen, all fworn fervants to the king. 



This office is to provide for coronations, marriages, and 

 funerals, of the royal family ; to furnilh the court with 

 beds, hangings, carpets, &c. ; to furnifh houfes for am- 

 baffadors, at their firft arrival here ; prefents for foreign 

 princes and ambafladors ; furniture for the lord heute- 

 nant of Ireland, and our ambafTadors abroad ; robes for 

 the knights and officers of the garter, heralds, purfuivants, 

 minifters of ftate ; liveries for the officers of the bed- 

 chamber, and other fervants ; liveries for the lord-chief 

 juftices, and barons of the exchequer, and other officers 

 in thofe courts ; as alfo yeomen, warders, trumpets, 

 kettle -drun' 3, meiTengers, coachmen, grooms, &c. with 

 coaches, harneffes, faddles, &c. the watermen, game- 

 keepers ; linen and lace for the king's perfon ; tilts, &c. 

 for his barges, &c. 



WARDS. See Court of Wards. 



WARDSBOROUGH, North Diftria, in Geography, a 

 town of Vermont, in the county of Windham, containing 

 1 159 inhabitants. 



Wardsbokough, South Difiria, a town of Vermont, 

 in the county of Windham, containing 894 inhabitants. 



WARDSBRIDGE, a poft-town of New York ; 36 

 miles S. of Kingfton. 



WARDSHIP, in Chivalry. See GuARDIAN, ir. 

 Chivalry, and Ward, fupra. 



Wardship, in Copyholds, is incident only to thofe of 

 inheritance. It partakes both of that in chivalry, and that 

 in focage ; like that in chivalry, the lord is the legal 

 guardian, who ufually affigns fome relation of the infant 

 tenant to aft in his rtead; and he, like guardian in foc- 

 age, is accountable to his ward for the profits. See 



Gl'ARDIAX. 



Wardshii', in Socage. See GiARDiAN and Socage. 



WARD-STAFF, the conftable's or watchman's ftaff. ' 



The manor of Lambourn, in Eflex, is held by fervice of 

 the ward-ftaff ; viz. by the carrying of a load of ftraw 

 in a cart with iix horfes, two ropes, and two men in har- 

 nefs to watch the faid ward-ilaff, when it is brought to the 

 town of Abridge, &c. 



WARDWAN, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Guzerat ; 80 miles S.W. of Amedabad. 



WARD-WITE, compounded of the Saxon -ward, 

 ivatch, and wite, mula, is defined by Fleta, as fignifying 

 a being exempted from the duty of watching. Others 

 rather take it for a duty paid towards the charge 

 of it. 



WARE, .S'/V James, in Biography, a defcendant of an 

 ancient Englifh family in Yorkihire, was born at Dublin in 

 1594, and finilhed his education at Trinity college, DubUn. 

 His proficiency was fuch as to entitle him to the particular 

 notice of Dr. Ufher, then bi(hop of Meath, with whom he 

 contrafted an intimate friendthip. On his firft vifit to 

 England in 1626, he was introduced by Ulher to fir Robert 

 Cotton, from whofe library he derived much affiftance in 

 his refearches ; of which he again availed himfelf in a fecond 

 journey to England in 1628. In 1629 he wa9 knighted by 

 the lords juftices of Ireland, and in 1632 he fucceeded to 

 his father's eftates, and to his office of auditor-general. He 

 was greatly confided in and often confulted by the earl of 

 Strafford, and by him made a member of the privy council. 

 In 1 639 he reprefented the univerfity of Dubhn in parliament, 

 and was fteadily attached to the intereil of lord Strafford. 

 He was aftive in his endeavours for fuppreffing the Irifh re- 

 bellion which broke out in 1641, and he was held in fuch 

 eftimation by the marquis of Ormond, that he was one of 

 three perfons deputed by him to inform his majefty at 

 Oxford, in December 1644, of the ftate of affairs in Ireland. 

 On his return he was captured by a fliip of war belonging 

 to the parliament, and committed to the Tower, whence he 

 was relcafed by exchange. During the progrefs of the 

 civil war, he was invariably attached to the royal caufe, and 

 when Dublin furrendered to the parliament, he was one of 

 the hoftages for the fulfilment of the treaty. After his re- 

 turn to Ireland, he was fufpecled, and ordered to depart to 

 any place except England. He chofe France as the place 

 of his exile, and removed thither in 1649, ''"'^ ^^''^ ^^ ^^°' 

 ciated with men of learning. In 1 65 i he was allowed to 

 come to London, and from thence he returned to Ireland, 

 which was then in a tranquil tlate. During the embroiled 

 ftate of the country, fir James Ware employed his time in 

 the elucidation of hiftorical antiquities, and pubhfhed, at dif- 

 ferent periods, a variety of biographical and other works ; 

 and particularly his treatife " De Scriptoribus Hiberniae," 

 lib. ii. commencing with the introduftion of Chriftianity into 

 Ireland, and continued to tlie clofe of the fixteenth cen- 

 tury ; and alfo his principal work, entitled " De Hibernis 

 et Antiquitatibus ejus," and firft publifhed in London in 

 1654, of which an enlarged edition appeared in i6j8, with 



