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twenty-fix bulhcls on the acre ; when for artificial grafl'es, 

 or green crops, from twenty-eight to thirty-four. See 

 Soot and fVood-SoOT. 



'WoOB-Sorril, in Botany. See [VooJ-SonHEL. 



Wood- Spite, in Ornithology, an Enghfli name gircn by 

 many to the common green wood-pecker. 



Wood- IVaJi, in ylgricultare, a name fometimes applied to 

 dyer's-broom by farmers. 



Wood, Waxen, in Gardening. See Genista. 



Wood, in Geography, a county of Virginia, with 3036 

 inhabitants. 



Wood Creek. See Preston'j Creek. 



Wood Creek, a river of New York, which runs into the 

 Hudfon, near Fort Edward. — Alfo, a river of New York, 

 connefted with the Mohawk by the canal at Rome, through 

 which the navigation is extended into Oneida lake. — Alio, 

 a river of New York, which rifes in Kingfbury, and runs 

 N. by Port Anne village, into lake Champlain, at White- 

 hall landing, formerly Skenefborough. 



Wood IJland, a fmall ifland near the coaft of Maine ; 15 

 miles N.E. of Cape Porpoife. N. lat. 43° 26'. W. long. 



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Wood River, a river of North America, which runs into 

 the Miffiffippi, N. lat. 44°. W. long. 92° 25' — Alfo, a 

 river of North America, which runs into the MiiliiSppi, N. 

 . lat. 38° 25'. W. long. 90° 58'. 



WOODBERRY, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in the 

 I county of Huntingdon, with n 07 inhabitants. 

 1 WOODBRIDGE, a large and populous market-town 

 ;; in the hundred of Loes, and county of Suffolk, England, 

 ' is fituated on the banks of the river Deben, at the diftance 

 ; of 8 miles E.N.E. from Ipfwich, and 77 miles N.E. by E. 

 from London. It is faid to have taken its name from 

 a wooden bridge built over a hollow way to make a commu- 

 , nication between two parks, feparated by the road which 

 leads towards Ipfwich ; and near the fpot where this bridge 

 : is fuppofed to have flood is a houfe, which to this day re- 

 1 tains the name of the Dry Bridge. But when it is confi- 

 I dered that in ancient times this town was written Oddebruge, 

 I or, as in Domefday-book, Udebruge, it may with greater 

 probability be fuppofed thence to have derived its prefent 

 appellation. The principal ftreets in Woodbridge, one of 

 which is nearly a mile in length, contain many good 

 I houfes, and are well paved. The market-place is well- 

 I built, and in the centre of it is an ancient fhire-hall, where 

 the quarter feflions for the liberty of St. Ethelred are held ; 

 I under which is the place for the corn-market. A weekly 

 ! market, granted in the reign of Henry III., is held on 

 ' Wednefdays, and here are two annual fairs. The only ma- 

 , nufaclures are thofe of fack-cloth and fait : but the com- 

 merce is of great importance. The Deben, which towards 

 its mouth is called Woodbridge-haven, is navigable up to 

 ^ the town, which thereby carries on a very confiderable traffic 

 I in corn, flour, malt, and various other articles, with Lon- 

 ' don, Hull, Newcaftle, and the continent : here are feveral 

 I docks for building veffels, with commodious wharfs and 

 I quays. In the population return of the year 181 1, Wood- 

 ] bridge is dated to contain 702 houfes, occupied by 4332 

 , perfons. The church, a fpacious ftrufture, is confidered 

 ' to have been built in the reign of Edward III. by John, 

 ] lord Seagrave. It confifts of a nave, chancel, and two 

 ! fide aifles, the roofs of which are fupported by fourteen 

 ; beautiful flender pillars. The exterior walls are of black 

 j flints, as is alfo a large quadrangular tower, 108 feet in 

 : height ; near the top, the flint and ftone are curioufly inter- 

 j mixed in various devices. On the fouth fide of the church 

 ; formerly flood a priory for black canons of the Augufline 



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order. At the difTolution the fcite was granted by 

 Henry VIII. to John Wingfield. After paffing through 

 feveral famihes, the eflate was divided and fold, when 

 the capital manfion, called the abbey or priory, was pur- 

 chafed by Francis Brooke, efq. of Ufford. The town con- 

 tains meeting-houfes for Independents, Quakers, and Me- 

 thodifls ; alfo a free grammar-fchool for ten boys, fons of 

 the poorer inhabitants of the town, who are to be inflrufted 

 in Latin and Greek, and fitted for the univerfity. Here is 

 hkewife an alms-houfe, worthy of particular notice, which 

 was founded and endowed in 1587, under a patent of queen 

 Ehzabeth, by Thomas Seckford, efq. for thirteen men and 

 three women. The endowment was an eflate in Clerken- 

 well, London, then let for 112/. 13/. 4//.; but leafed in 

 1767 for fixty years at 563/. per annum, clear of all charges. 

 And as vail fums have been recently expended upon the 

 eflate, it may reafonably be fuppofed that a confiderable 

 advance will take place at the expiration of the leafe. The 

 governors are the mafler of the rolls and the chief juftice of 

 the common pleas, who are empowered to make fuch regu- 

 lations as from time to time fhall be neceffary. By the laft 

 ordinances, the annual allowance to the refidents in the 

 alms-houfe was increafed to 27/. for the principal or nominal 

 governor, and 20/. to each of the other twelve poor men, 

 befides wearing apparel, and a chaldron and half of coals. 

 The three women are appointed as nurfes and attendants 

 on the men, and receive 12/. per annum, and clothing. The 

 men wear a filver badge, with the Seckford arms, and are 

 required to attend divine fervice at the parifh-church on 



Sundays, Wednefdays, and Fridays, and all holidays 



Kirby's Suffolk Traveller, 8vo. 1764. Beauties of Eng- 

 land and Wales, vol. xiv. Suffolk, by F. Shoberl. 



Woodbridge, a town of .New Jerfey ; 4 miles N. of 

 Araboy. 



Woodbridge, a townfhip of Connefticut, in the county 

 of New Haven, with 2030 inhabitants ; 7 miles N.W. of 

 New Haven. 



WOODBURY, a town of the ft ate of Conneaicut, in 

 the county of Lichfield, with 1963 inhabitants; 30 miles 

 S.W. of Hartford. — Alfo, a town of the ftate of New 

 Jerfey, on the E. fide of the Delaware ; 9 miles S. of Phi- 

 ladelphia. N. lat. 39" 51'. W. long. 75° 15'.— Alfo, a 

 town of Vermont, in the county of Caledonia, with 254 

 inhabitants ; 20 miles N. of New Haven. — Alfo, a town- 

 fhip of Pennfylvania, in the county of Bedford, with i6j8 

 inhabitants. 



WOODCHESTER, a parochial village in the hundred 

 of Longtree, and county of Gloucefter, England, is 

 fituated 2'5 miles S.W. from Stroud, 125 S. from Gloucef- 

 ter, and 104 W. by N. from London. In 181 1 the num- 

 ber of houfes in the parifh was 162, and the inhabitants 845. 

 By its name Woodchefter indicates its having been originally 

 a Roman ftation, and many Roman antiquities have been 

 frequently difcovered there, of which the mofl remarkable 

 is a mofaic pavement, partially laid open by digging graves 

 in the church-yard under which it lies. It appeared to have 

 formed a fquare of 48 feet 10 inches; and for fize and 

 richnefs of ornament is certainly fuperior to any fimilar 

 teffellated pavement hitherto difcovered in Britain. The 

 tefera were imbedded in a cement about 8 inches thick : and 

 under all were flues crofling each other at right angles. Befide* 

 this curious work, others have been occafionally difcovered 

 at Woodchefter : particularly in 1795 and 1796, the ground- 

 plot of a very extenfive Roman building was laid open, of 

 which the remains in the church-yard formed the N. extre- 

 mity, and the other parts extended under an adjoining or- 

 chard and field. The plan of this building coroprifed two 



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