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private concerns he maintained an eftimable charafter for 

 probity and honour. After his death an anonymous edi- 

 tor, in 1682, publifhed his " Memorials of the Enghfh 

 Affairs ; or, an hiftorical Account of what pafTed from the 

 Beginning of the Reign of King Charles I. to King 

 Charles II. his happy Reftoration," fol. ; an improved edi- 

 tion of which appeared in 1732. From his MSS. wen^ 

 publifhed in 1709, " Memorials of the Enghfh Affairs from 

 the fuppofed Expedition of Brute to this Ifland, to the End 

 of the Reign of King James I.," a chronological epitome 

 of hiftory for his own ufe. In 1766 Dr. Charles Morton, 

 fecretary to the Royal Society, publiflied " Whitelock's 

 Notes upon the King's Writ for Aoofing Members of Par- 

 liament, 13 Car. II. being Difquifitions on the Govern- 

 ment of England by King, Lords, and Commons," 2 vols. 

 4to. The fame editor alfo publifhed in 1772, " A Journal 

 of the Swedifh Embaffy in the Years 1653 and 1654, from 

 the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland ; 

 vsritten by the Ambaffador the Lord Commiflioner White- 

 lock ; with an Appendix of original Papers," 2 vols. 4to. 

 Biog. Brit. Gen. Biog. 



The commiflioner, amid all his grave affairs, found leifure 

 to cultivate mufic, of which he was very fond ; and fecms 

 to have interefted himfelf in all the remarkable performances 

 of his time. During the happy days of Charles I., mafques 

 were fo frequent at court and elfewhere, that in 1633 no 

 lefs than five mafques were performed at different places 

 before the king and queen. See Masque. 



A very circumflantial account of one of thefe, " The 

 Triumphs of Peace," has been left to his family by the 

 commiflioner himfelf, which was in the poffefEon of the late 

 Dr. Morton of the Britifh Mufeum. The mufical part of 

 this performance feems to have been wholly afllgned by the 

 benchers at the Temple to commiflioner Whiteiock. For 

 in his narrative he fays, " I made choice of Mr. Symon 

 Ives, an honefl and able mufician, of excellent fkill in the 

 art, and of Mr. Lawes, to compofe all the aiers, lefTons, 

 and fongs for the mafque, and to be mafters of all the 

 muficke under me." See Ives, and Lawes, William. 



The commiflioner, befides being a performer, was a bit 

 of a compofer ; as he fays with great triumph at the latter 

 end of his narrative : " I was fo converfant with the mufi- 

 tians, and fo willing to gaine their favour, efpecially at 

 this time, that I compofed an aier myfelfe, with the aflift- 

 ance of Mr. Ives, and called it ' Whitelocke's Coranto :' 

 which being cried up, was firfl played publiquely, by the 

 Blackefryar's muficke, who were then efteemed the befl of 

 common mufitians in London. Whenever I came to that 

 houfe (as I did fometimes in thofe dayes), though not 

 often, to fee a play, the mufitians would prefently play 

 • Whitelocke's Coranto ;' and it was fo often called for, 

 that they would have it played twice or thrice in an after- 

 noon. The queen hearing it, would not be perfuaded that 

 it was made by an Englifhman, bicaufe fhe faid it was fuller 

 of life and fpirit than the Englifh aiers ufe to be ; butt fhe 

 honoured the ' Coranto' and the maker of it with her 

 majeilyes royall commendation. It grew to that requeft, 

 that all the common mufitians in this towne, and all over 

 the kingdome, gott the compofition of it, and played it 

 publiquely in all places, for above thirtie years after." 



Among other moral refleftions, addreffed to his family, 

 on fuch vanities as he had been defcribing, lord commifTioner 

 Whiteiock adds : " Yet I am farre from difcommending 

 the knowledge of this art (mufic), and exercife of this re- 

 creation for a diverfion, and fo as you fpend not too much 

 of your time in it, that I advife you in this as in other ac- 

 complifhments, that you indeavour to gett to fome per- 



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feftion, as I did, and it will be the more ornament and 

 delight to you." 



The lord commifTtoner inferts his aier, in order to pre- 

 f»rve it for the ufe of his family, if any of them fhould 

 delight in it. This " Coranto" may be feen in Bumey's 

 KiO:. Miff. vol. iii. ; and the whole narrative of the mafque, 

 entitled " The Trimnph of Peace," from " Whitelock's 

 I abours remembered in the Annales of his Life, written 

 for the Ufe of his Children," MS. 



WHITEMARSH, in Geography, a townfhip of Penn- 

 fylvania. in the county of Montgomery, with 1328 inha- 

 bitants .; I J miles N.W. of Philadelphia. 



WHITEN Head, a cape on tlie north coaft of Scot- 

 land. N. lat. 58° 37'. W. long. 4° 22'. 



WHITENESS, a town of the ifland of SheUand ; 

 6 miles N.W. of Lerwick. 



WHITENING of Bones, for a flieleton. See Bone. 



Whitening of Cloth. See Bleaching. 



Whitenikg of Hair. See Hair. 



WHiT'iNiNG of Wax. See Wax. 



WHITEPx'VINE, in Geography, a town of Pennfylvania, 

 in l!ie county of Montgomery, with 955 inhabitants ; 20 

 miles N.W. of Philadelphia. 



WHITE-PLAINS, a poll -townfhip and half-fhire town 

 of Weft Chefter county, in New York; 30 miles from New 

 Yo.k, and 140 S. of Albany. The whole area of this 

 town is about 8| fquare miles; and its population, in 18 10, 

 was 693, vith 68 eledors, and icg tax-.ble inhabitants. 

 The village of White-plains is pleafantly fituated on a fine 

 plain, three-quarters of a mile E. of Bronx creek, and con- 

 tains a court-houfe, prifon, and a handfome colleftion of 

 houfes. The Anic -^can troops were defeated i:i this place, 

 by the Britifli under general Howe, in the year 1776. 



WHITESAND Bay, a bay on the W. coaft of Eng- 

 land, in the county of Cornwall, a little to the N. of the 

 Land's End. N. lat. 50° 6'. W. long. 5° 34'.— Alfo, a 

 bay on the W. coaft of Wales ; i mile N.W. of St. 

 David's. 



WHITESEA, a large gulf of the North Frozen fea, 

 on the N. coaft of RulTia, bounded on the N.E. and S. by 

 the government of Olonetz, in the vicinity of Archangel, ex- 

 tending from N. to S. within the land, from 69° to 63° of 

 N. lat., and containing a number of fmall iflands. 



WHITESTOWN, the principal town and half ftiire of 

 the county of Oneida, in the ftate of New York, fituated 

 on the Mohawk river, 95 nniles N.W. of Albany ; includ- 

 ing Utica, and having three poft-offices. Its form is irre- 

 trular, and area about 40 fquare miles. In January, 1785, 

 Mr. Hugh White, from Coimefticut, with a young farnily, 

 became the firft fettler. In 1788 the town of German 

 Flats was divided, and a new town erefted, and named 

 Whiteftown, in honour of Mr. White. In 1798 the county 

 of Oneida was eftablifhed, by a fubdivifion of Herkimer, 

 and Whiteftown included within this county. By iubfe- 

 quent divifions, Whiteftown was reduced to a medial mea- 

 fure of 9 miles by 8. It is fituated immediately on the 

 great thoroughfare between Albany and the Weftern lakes ; 

 between Canada and the principal commercial fea-ports of 

 the American ftates on the Atlantic ocean. This town 

 contains three large poft-villages, Utica incorporated, 

 Whitefborough, and New Hartford. Whiteftown, includ- 

 ing thefe villages, is unrivalled, in the United States, with 

 regard to wealth, population, trade, and improvements, 

 among inland towns of fuch recent fettlement ; and none in 

 this ftate, of the fame area, affords fo great a population. 

 It has feven principal churches ; one Epifcopal, three Pref- 

 byterian, two Baptift, in one of which the fervice is per- 

 formed 



