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befiie it, treated by him with great attention to the varied 

 effeA of colour in nature, and a dexterous management of 

 chiaro-ofcura ; and always with the mod free and fliilful 

 touch, though generally upon a fmall fcale. As he painted 

 with facility, his works are not rare, though they bear a 

 good price when in perfeft prefervation. Wynants efta- 

 bliftied an academy, which produced many excellent 

 painters. Amonff others of great celebrity, were Adiian 

 Vandevelde and Philip Wouvermans, both of whom occa- 

 fionally embellifhed their mailer's piaures with figures. 

 He died in 1670, aged 70. He left numerous beautiful 

 etchings of landfcapes. 



WYNNE, Mrs. Cassandra Frederica, the fineft 

 harpfichord player of her time. She was the daughter of 

 fignora Pompeati, the fecond female finger in Gluck's opera 

 pf " La Caduta de Giganti," performed in 1746, on the 

 fupprelTion of the rebellion ; but though (he nominally per- 

 formed the part of fecond woman, (he afted and fang in fo 

 mafeuline and violent a manner, that no female fymptoms 

 were difcoverable. But this lady was better known after- 

 wards by the name of Madame Cornellys, whofe concerts, 

 ridottas, aflfemblies, and mafquerades, in Soho-fquare, were 

 the gaieft and moft fafhionable amufements in London 

 during many years. 



The little Frederica, daughter of the Pompeati, was an 

 eleve of Paradie's, (fome fay his daughter,) and the fir ft 

 early player, the neateft, and the beft which had ever ap- 

 peared in our country during infancy, performing at fix 

 years old, with the utmoft precinon and firmnefs, propped 

 up by cufhions, the whole book of her matter's twelve ex- 

 cellent lefTons, probably compofed exprefsly as progreffive 

 exercifes for her ufe, with many leffons by Scarlatti and 

 Alberti. 



In 1769, when grown up, fhe went into Italy, where ftie 

 was the wonder and fubjeft of eloge in that mother and feat 

 of arts. We have often heard her perform at different 

 periods of her life, and continued to think her improved to 

 the laft. 



Wynne, , efq., a Yorkihire gentleman, one of the 



beft dilettanti performers on the violin that we have heard. 

 Hewasamanoffortune, andof an ancient family. Togratify 

 his paflion for mufic, he went into Italy early in life, where 

 he married, and remained in different great cities till he had 

 almoft totally forgotten his mother-tongue. He likewife 

 travelled through Germany, and having two daughters, he 

 had always a mufic-mafter on his eftabhfhment, not only to 

 inftruft them, but to accompany himfelf. When he wa« 

 laft in England, he had Pfeifer with him for thefe purpofes, 

 a worthy German, and an excellent mufician and performer 

 on feveral inftruments, who died in London of a confump- 

 tion. 



Befides being a good performer on the violin, Mr. Wynne 

 had ftudied compofition fufficiently to compofe trios, which 

 were far above the common run of trios at that time in 

 point of tafte and invention, and well put together. 



WYNSBACH, in Geography, a town of Auftria ; 4 

 miles E. of Schwannaftatt. 



WYNSTER. See Winster. 



WYOMING, a fettlement and fort on the river Suf- 

 quehanna. In the year 1778, this fort was attacked by a 

 party of Britifh and Indians. The garrifon were foon 

 overpowered, and fell a prey to Indian barbarity ; after a 

 bloody militsry execution of a great part, the reft were ftiut 

 lip in the barracks, to which they fet fire, and confumed the 

 whole ; 2 miles above Wilkeft)arre. 



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WYONOKE Creek, a river of North Carolina, which 

 runs into the fea, N. lat. 36" jc/. 



WYRARDSBURY, or Wraysbhry, a parifh in the 

 hundred of Stoke, and county of Buckingham, England, is 

 fituated near the banks of the Thames, 3 miles S.W. from 

 Colnebrooke, and 3 miles N.W. from Staines, Middlefex. 

 The manor belonged to the priory of Ankerwyke, in the 

 fame parifh, which was founded in the reign of Henry II. 

 for Benediftine nuns by Gilbert de Montfichet and his fon 

 Richard. In 1538 the priory was given to Bifham abbey, 

 and after the difTolution it was granted to lord Windfor. 

 Having afterwards reverted to the crown in exchange, it was 

 given by Edward VI. in 1540 to fir Thomas Smith, the 

 celebrated ftatefman, who refided at Ankerwyke. It was 

 afterwards for many years the feat of the Salter family, of 

 whom it was purchafed by the Lees ; and by marriage 

 with an heirefs came into the pofTefTion of fir Philip Har- 

 court, anceftor of the prefent proprietor, John Simon Har- 

 court, efq. There are no remains of the conventual build- 

 ings. Soon after the difTolution a manfion was built on the 

 fcite by lord Windfor, or fir Thomas Smith : the hall of 

 this manfion ftill remains. Near the houfe is a remarkably 

 large yew-tree, which at fix feet from the ground meafurei 

 thirty feet five inches in girth. In the parifli-church are 

 monuments of the Harcourt family ; and alfo of Thomas 

 Wright, efq. and Thomas Gill, efq. aldermen of London, 

 who died within a fortnight of each other in the year 1798. 

 The population return of the year 181 1 ftates this parifh to 

 contain 120 houfes, and 560 inhabitants. The parifh was 

 inclofed by an aft of parliament paffed in the year 1799 : a 

 parcel of the wafte was allotted for the purpofe of holding 

 a fair on the Friday in Whitfun week, purfuant to ancient 

 cuftom.— Lyfons's Magna Britannia, vol. i. Buckingham- 

 (hire. 



WYRE, a river of Lancafhire, which runs into the Irifh 

 fea, 9 miles W. of Garftang. N. lat. 53° 53'. W. long. 

 2° 56'. — Alfo, a river of France, which joins the Semoy, 

 3 miles E. of Chiny. 



WYRIL Point, a cape of England, on the coaft of 

 Durham. N. lat. 55° 3'. 



WYSAUKING Creek, a river of Pennfylvania, which 

 runs into the E. branch of the Sufquehanna, N. lat. 41° 46'. 

 W. long. 76' 27'. 



WYSOCKS, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in the county 

 of Luzerne, containing 619 inhabitants. 



WYSOKIE, a town of Lithuania, iu the palatinate of 

 Brzefk ; j 6 miles N. of Brzefk. 



WYSTIEZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Brzefk ; 8 miles N.E. of Brzefk. 



WYSZOCK, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Brze/k ; 44 miles S.E. of Pinfe. 



WYTA, or Wita Plena, fignified a forfeiture of a hun- 

 dred and twenty fhillings. " Si pundbreche fiat in curia 

 regis, plena wita fit ; alibi, quinque marcae." 



To fwear according to the wyte, fecundum lu'ttam jurare, 

 was to purge one's felf by the oaths of fo many witneffes, as 

 the nature of the crime, and the punifhment, or wyte, did 

 require. 



Hence, alfo, blood-wite, leger<wlte,ferdwUe, cllUtu'tte, tuard- 

 wite, &c. See Y^KVi-Wite, CH\l.Ti-Wite, &c. 



WYTE, Wyta, or WiTE, Wita, in our ^Indent Cuf- 

 toms, a pecuniary penalty, or mulft. 



" Jurat fecundum witam, quod nee fuerat furti confcius, 

 nee coadjutor in eo." Leg. Ins. 



The Saxons had two kinds of punifhments, were and 

 ivyte ; the firft for the more grievous offences. 



The 



