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by Godfrey de Rhenen, the twenty-eighth bifhop of Utrecht, 

 on the river Rhine, about the year 1160, to keep the citi- 

 zens of Utrecht in fubjedlion, and maintain his authority. 

 It had a callle, which was formerly fuppofed to be im- 

 pregnable ; but when the French took the city in 1672, 

 they entirely demoliflied it, before that time falling to de- 

 cay. This city had its own particular lords till the year 

 1296, when Herman dt Woerden fortified it, having been 

 convifted of being a party in the murder of Florent V. comte 

 of Holland, who was affaffinated by a gentleman named Ge- 

 rard de Velfen, whofe wife he had ravifhed. It was after- 

 wards fold by Philip II. king of Spain, to Eric, duke of 

 Brunfwick ; from whom it came, in 1581, under the do- 

 minion of the States- General. In 1672, the French having 

 made themfelvcs mailers of this place, the Dutch came to 

 befiege it, aider the prince of Or mge and the comte de 

 Zuyleftein. The comte de Marck, who commanded in the 

 city, began to be much preffed, when the duke of Luxem- 

 burg arrived with 9000 men. He pafTed the morafs by a 

 way which was fuppofed to be inacceflible, forced the 

 intren'-Iiments, and put the enemy to flight. The Dutch 

 loft 2000 men, killed and wounded, among the former 

 of whom was the comte of Zuyleftein ; and the French about 

 1000 ; 8 miles W. of Utrecht. 



WOGGORA, a fmall high province of Abyflinia, on the 

 E. of Gondar, which is fown with wheat. This province 

 and Dembea are the granaries of the country. 



WOGGT, a river of Auftria, which runs into the Ager, 

 near Voglabruck. 



WOGLYDURGAM, a town of Hindooftan, in My- 

 fore ; 15 miles S. of Ouflbor. 



WOGOW, a town of Pruffia ; i8 miles S. of Konigf- 

 berg. 



WOGSHAID, a town of Auftria; 7 miles S.W. of 

 Aigen. 



WOHLAU, a town of Silefia, and capital of a principal- 

 ity, on all fides furrounded with marfhes, which are a kind 

 of natural defence. It has two fuburbs, a Roman Catholic 

 and a Lutheran church. In the year 1640, it was taken by 

 the Swedes ; in 1642, furprifed by the Imperialifts, but foon 

 after retaken by the Swedes; and in 1644, recovered by the 

 Imperialifts ; 20 miles N.W. of Breflau. N. lat. 51° 20'. 

 E. long. 16° 35'. 



WoHLAU, or Wolau, a principaUty of Silefia, bound- 

 ed on the north by the principality of Glogau, on the 

 eaft by Poland and the principality of Oels, on the fouth by 

 the principalities of Breflaw and Lignitz, and on the weft 

 by the principahties of Lignitz and Glogau ; fituated on 

 both fides of the Oder. The foil is in fome parts dry, in 

 others marfliy, or overrun with woods and bufties, though 

 feveral trafts alfo yield good corn. 



WOHRA, a river of Germany, which runs into the 

 Werra, 2 miles N.W. of Echwegen, in the principality of 

 Helfe. 



WOHRD, a town of Bavaria, in the territory of Nu- 

 remberg, near Nuremberg. 



WOINITSCH, a town of Auftrian Poland ; 36 miles 

 E. of Cracow. 



WOITSBACH, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Boleflaw ; 8 miles E. of Krottau. 

 WOITSBERG. See Voitsberg. 

 WOKING, a town of England, ill the county of Surrey ; 

 8 miles N. of Guildford. 



WOKINGHAM, or Oakingham, a market-town and 



parifti in the hundred of Sonning, and county of Berks, 



England, is fituated in Windfor foreft 7^ miles E.S.E. 



from Reading, and 32^ W.S.W. from London. The po- 



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pulation in i8ii was 2085 perfons, inhabiting 435 houfes. 

 The market is held on Tuefday, and the fairs on the 23d of 

 April, I ith of June, loth of Oftober, and 2d of NoTcmber. 

 The town, incorporated by James I., is governed by an alder- 

 man, high fteward, recorder, burgeffes, and a town-clerk ; 

 and at this place are held all the courts for Windfor foreft. 

 Although within the bounds of Berkftiire, the church ftands 

 in an infulated part of Wiltftiire : it is a large and handfome 

 edifice. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in agriculture, 

 throwing filk, forting wool, and making (hoes : the gauze 

 manufadture was fome years ago introduced. At Luckely- 

 green, near this town, is an hofpital, founded in 1665 ^y 

 Henry Lucas, efq. for fixteen poor men and a mafter : the 

 truftees of the charity are the Drapers' company of London. 

 About four miles S.E. from Wokingham, is a large and irre- 

 gular fortification, with a double ditch, commonly called 

 Cxfar's camp, fituated on the fummit of a hill. Haifa mile 

 to the fouthward of this camp is the Devil's ditch, a raifed 

 road nearly ninety feet wide, running eaft and weft, with a 

 trench on each fide. In i66i George Staverton gave the 

 rent of a houfe in this place for the purpofe of buying a 

 bull, to be baited and killed at Chriftmas, for the benefit of 

 thepoor of Wokingham ; but this being thought infufficient, 

 the inhabitants are in the habit of purchafing another beaft 

 for the fame purpofe. Archbifhop Laud gave a portion of 

 certain fee-farm rents, which produces about 40/. per annum, 

 to the parifh. Every third year it is divided, purfuant to 

 the donor's intention, between three poor maidens of the 

 age of eighteen, natives of the town, and members of the 

 church of England, who have ferved the fame mafter or 

 miftrefs for three years together : the other years it is ap- 

 propriated to the apprenticing of poor boys. Dr. Thomas 

 Godwin, bi(hop of Bath and Wells, was a native of this 

 town, where he was born in 1517. 



About four miles S. from Wokingham is Billingbear, one 

 of the feats of lord Braybrooke. The houfe is a large irre- 

 gular building, feated in a fine park. A particular hiftory 

 and defcription of this place is given, with a view, in Havell's 

 Views of Seats, foho, 1816 — Beauties of England and 

 Wales, Berkfhire ; by J. Britton and E. W. Brayley, 

 London, 8vo. 1802. Magna Britannia, by S. and the Rev. 

 D. Lyfons, vol. i. 410. 1806. 



WOKSCHITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Konigingratz ; 2 miles W. of Gitfchin. 



WOLBECK, or WaldbCT;k, a town of Germany, in 

 the bifhopric of Munfter ; 7 miles S.S.E. of Munfter. 

 N. lat. 51° 53'. E. long. 7° 52'. 



WOLBORZ, a town of theduchy of Warfaw ; 41 miles 

 S. of Siradia. 



WOLCHRADITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle 

 of Brunn ; 18 miles S.S.E. of Brunn. 



WOLCKENSTEIN, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 6 

 miles W.N.W. of Rottenmann. 



WOLCKERSDORF, a town of Germany, in the mar- 



gravate of Anfpach ; 2 miles N. of Schwabach Alfo, a 



town of Auftria, on the Rufbach ; 8 miles E.N.E. of Korn 

 Neuburg. 



WOLCKERSHAUSEN, a town of the duchy of 

 Wurzburg ; 6 miles N. of Schweinfurt. — Alfo, a town of 

 the county of Henneberg ; 3 miles N. of Menungen. 



WOLCOTT. See Woolcott. 



WoLCOTT, a town of Connefticut, in the county of 

 New Haven, near Fairfield, with 952 inhabitants. 



WOLD, fignifies a plain, down, or open champaign 

 ground, liilly, and void of wood. 



Hence the names Stow in the Wold, and Cotfwold, in 

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