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taining 20 houfes, and 97 inhabitants. It includes the ham- 

 let of Brentingby. 



WYGBYGERA, a town of Sweden, in Angermann- 

 land ; 30 miles N. of Hernofand. 



WYGELN, a high mountain of Norway. 



WYHAM, a parifh in the wapentake of Ludborough, 

 in Lindfey divifion of the county of Lincoln, England, is 

 fituated 7 miles N.N.W. from Louth ; and was Hated in the 

 year 181 1 to have a population of 87, occupying 10 

 houfes. 



WYHOMICA, or Wyhoniec, a town of Lithuania ; 

 20 miles N.N.E. of Pinfli. 



WYK, a town of Sweden, in the province of Smaland ; 

 65 miles N.N.W. of Calmar. 



WYKA, a town of Sweden, in Dalecarlia; 14 miles 

 S.E. of Fahlun. 



WYKE, anciently denoted a farm, hamlet, or little 

 village. 



Wyke, in Geography, a tything in the parilh of Wor- 

 plefdon, hundred of Woking, county of Surrey, England, 

 is fituated 6 miles W, by N. from Guildford, and was re- 

 turned in the year 181 1 as containing 30 houfes, and 125 

 inhabitants. 



WvKE Regis, a parifh in the hundred of the fame 

 name, in Dorcheftcr divifion of the county of Dorfet, 

 England, is 2 miles W.S.W. from Weymouth. The po- 

 pulation in the year 18 ti was returned as 570, the num- 

 ber of houfes as 1^4. The church, which is the mother- 

 church to Melcombe Regis, is a fpacious building, with a 

 lofty tower, ferving as a land-mark. From this village there 

 is a ferry to Portland ifle. 



VfYKE-Hamon, a parifli in the hundred of Cleley, North- 

 amptonfhire, England. The church is in ruins. The po- 

 pulation is included with that of the adjoining parifli of 

 Wykens, or Wyke Dyve. 



WYKEHAM, in Biography. See William of Wyke- 

 ham. 



Wykeham, or Wycombe, in Geography, a townfhip in 

 the hundred of Eaft Gofcote, county of Leiceller, Eng- 

 land ; 5 miles N.E. by N. from Melton Mowbray. The 

 population, including the adjoining townfliip of Caldwell, 

 was in 181 1 Hated to be 95, occupying 25 houfes. 



Wykeham, a townfliip in the eafl; divifion of the wapen- 

 take of Pickering Lythe, North Riding of the county of 

 York, England, is fi miles S.W. by W. from Scarborough ; 

 and in the year 1811 contained 87 houfes, and 511 inhabit- 

 ants. About the year 1153, Pain Fitz Oflaert built and 

 endowed a priory for Clftercian nuns at this place. At the 

 diffolution there were nine religious perfons in the houfe, 

 with an eftate of 25/. 17^-. 6c/. per annum. Henry VIIL 

 granted the houfe to Francis Poole. 



Wykeham, Eajl, is a parifli in the Wold divifion of 

 Louth-Eflce hundred, in Lindfey part of Lincolnfhire, Eng- 

 land, fituated 7 miles N.W. by W. from Louth. The 

 church is in ruins. The population was Hated, in the return 

 of the year 1811, to be 23, the number of houfes 4. 



Wykeham, WeJ, is a parifli in the eaft divifion of the 

 wapentake of Wraggoe, in Lindfey divifion of Lincoln- 

 fliire, England, adjoining to the foregoing. The church is 

 alfo in ruins. 



WYKEN, a parifli in the county of the city of Co- 

 ventry, Warwick fliire, England, is 3 miles N.E. by E. 

 from the city ; and, according to the population return of 

 the year 181 1, contained 13 houfes, and 72 inhabitants. 



WYKENS, or Wyke-Dyve, a parifli in the hundred 

 of Cleley, county of Northampton, England, fituated 7 



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miles S.E. by S. from Towcefter, and 3 miles W.S.W. 

 from Stony-Stratford, Bucks. This parifli is united with 

 that of Wyke-Hamon, and in 181 1 the joint population 

 was returned as ^85, the number of houfes as C7. 



WYL. SeeWEYL. ^ 



WYLAM, a townfliip in the parifli of Ovingham, Tyne- 

 dale-ward, county of Northumberland. In the year 1811 it 

 contained 159 houfes, and 795 inhabitants ; 9 miles W. from 

 Newcallle. 



WYLDE, John, in Biography, the author, or rather the 

 compiler of a traft on mufic in the MS. of Waltham Holy 

 Crofs, now in the pofleffion of the marquis of Lanfdown, 

 entitled " Mufica Guidonis Monachi." It is the firft in 

 the volume, but not written by Guido, as the title feems to 

 imply, but an explanation of his principles ; it is divided 

 into two books, and appears to have been compiled by the 

 pra=centor of Waltham abbey, John Wylde, pr. " Quia 

 juxta Sapientiflimum Salomonem dura eft:." The author 

 does not confine himfelf to the doftrines of Guido, but cites 

 later writers. The bafis of the trad, however, is the Mi- 

 crologus, and his other writings, in which he treats of the 

 monochord, the fcale, the harmonic hand, the explanatioo 

 of which he calls manual mufic, ecclefiaftical tones, folmifa- 

 tion, clefs, with a battle between B flat and B natural, are 

 the fubjefts of the firfl; book, confiding of twenty-two 

 chapters. 



The fecond book, or difl;in6lion, contains thirty-one 

 chapters. In the firlt he fpeaks of a Guido Minor, fur- 

 named Augenfis, as a writer on the ecclefiaft;ical chant. He 

 had mentioned this author in the feventh chapter of the firfl; 

 book ; but who he was, or when he lived, we are unable to 

 difcover. It feems, however, as if fome fuch mufical 

 writer had exifted, and that his name, by the ignorance or 

 inattention of the fcribes of ancient MSS., had been con- 

 founded with that of Guido d'Arezzo. 



In feveral of the fucceeding chapters he treats of inter- 

 vals and their fpecies, offering nothing new or fingular, ex- 

 cept where he draws a parallel between the tone and femi- 

 tone, and Leah and Rachel, Jacob's wives, which, it is pre- 

 fumed, will excite no great curiofity in our readers. 



Attention is engaged, however, in the tenth chapter, by 

 a " Cantilena," as tlie author calls it, of the Great Guido. 

 It is a kind of folfeggio, or exercife for the voice, through 

 all the intervals, which is only rendered valuable, perhaps, 

 by the fuppofition of its having been produced by the cele- 

 brated author of the mufical alphabet. See Serra. 



WYLIA, in Botany, another new umbelliferous genu* 

 of profen"or Hoff'mann's, (fee Wendia,) dedicated by its 

 author to Dr. J. Wylie, privy counfellor to the emperor of 

 Ruffia, infpeftor of medicine and furgery in the Ruffian army, 

 &c. &c., author of a Pharmncopceia Cajlrenfts Ruthena, in 

 which his highly commendable aim has been to indicate the 

 medical properties, and to fix the names of the native plants 

 of Ruffia — Hoff"m. Gen. Plant. UmbeUif. v. 1. 3. t. 2. — 

 Clafs and order, Pentandria Digynta. Nat. Ord. Umhellats, 

 Linn. UmbeUifem, JulT. 



Gen. Ch. General Involucrum of one ovato-lanceolate, 

 membranous, half-clafping leaf, fringed with hairs ; partial 

 of five ovate, nearly entire, concave, two or three-ribbed 

 leaves, bordered with a pellucid fringed membrane. Pe- 

 rianth of five minute teeth, permanent. Cor. univerfal 

 irregular ; flowers of the difli perfed, fertile, as well as the 

 female ones which form the radius ; fome male flowers are 

 either interfperfed in the diflc, or difpofed in feparate um- 

 bels : partial of five petals ; unequal in the flowers of the 

 radius, the outermoil very large, either obovate and flat- 

 tened, 



