WAR 
disused, into repute again ; and for this pur- 
pose he read them very constantly, nev^r 
missing one reading day all the while he lield 
the lecture. 
In 1654, both the Savilian professors did 
their exercises, in order to proceed doctors 
in divinity ; and when they were to be pre- 
sented, Wallis claimed precedency. This 
occasioned a dispute ; which being decided 
in favour of Ward, who was really the se- 
nior, Wallis went out grand compounder, 
and so obtained the precedency. 
In 16.')9, Ward was chosen president of 
Trinity College, but was obliged at the Re- 
storation to resign that place. He had 
amends made him, however, by being pre- 
sented, in 1660, to the rectory of St. Lau- 
rence, .Jewry. The same year he was also 
installed precentor of the church of Exe- 
ter. In 1661, he became Fellow of the 
Royal Society, and Dean of Exeter ; and 
the year following he was advanced to the 
bishopric of the same church. In 1667, he 
was translated to the see of Salisbury ; and, 
in 1671, was made Chancellor of the order 
of tlie Garter; an honour which he pro- 
cured to be periiiaueutly annexed to the see 
of Salisbury, after it had been held by 
laymen for above one hundred and fifty 
years. 
Dr-. Ward was one of those utrhappy per- 
sons who have had the misfortune to survive 
tiieir senses, which happened in consequence 
of a fever ill cured ; he lived till the Revo- 
lution, but without knowing any thing of 
the matter ; and died in Jamrary, 168-9, 
about seventy-one years of age. He was 
the- author of several Latin works in astro- 
nomy aird ditferent parts of tire mathema- 
tics, which were thought excellent in their 
day ; but tlreir use. Iras been str|>('tseded by 
later irtrprovernents and the Newtoniarr phi- 
losophy. 
WARDMOTE, a court kept in every 
ward in Londoit, usually called Ihe ward- 
mote court : and the wardmote inquest has 
power every year to inquire into, and pre- 
sent, all detanlts concerning the watch and 
constables not doing their duty ; that en- 
gines, &c. be provided against fire ; persons 
selling ale and beer be honest, artd sitffer 
no disorders, nor permit gaming, &c. ; that 
they sell in law'ful measures ; aitd searches 
be made for vagrants, beggars, and idle 
persons, &c. who shall be pnnished. 
WARE, or Wear, in naval afliairs, to 
cause a ship to change her course from one 
board to the other, by turning her stern to 
the wind. Hence it is used in the same 
WAR 
sense of veering, and in oppositifln to tack- 
ing, in wlpcli the head is turped to the 
wind, and the stern to the leeward. 
WARNING piece, in the military art, is 
the gun which is fired every night about 
sun-set, to give notice to the drums and 
trumpets of the arhiy to beat and sound a 
retreat or tattoo, which is likewise called 
setting the watch. 
Warning ivhcel, in a dock, is the third 
or fourth, according to its distance from the 
fir.st wheel. ' 
WARP, in the manufactures, is the 
threads, whether of silk, wool, linen, hemp, 
&c. that are extended lengthwise on the 
weaver’s loom ; and across which the work- 
man by means of liis shuttle passes the 
threads of the woof, to form a doth, rib- 
band, fustian, or other matter. For a wool- 
len .stuff to have the necessary qualities, it 
is required that the threads of the warp be 
of the same kind, of wool, and of the same 
fineness throughout; that they be sized 
with Flanders or parchment size, well pre- 
pared, and that tiiey be in sufficient num- 
ber with regard to the breadth of the stuff 
to be wrought. To warp a ship, is to shift 
Iier from one place to another, when the 
wind and tide will permit it without danger. 
WARRANT, a pr-iecipe, under hand and 
seal, to some officer, to bring any offender 
before the person granting it ; and w-arrants 
of commitment are issued by the Privy 
Council, a secretary of state, or justice of 
peace, &c. where there has beea a private 
information, ora witness has deposed against 
an offender. Any one under tlie degree of 
nobility may be arrested for a misdemeanor, 
or any thing done against tlte peace of the 
kingdom, by warrant from a justice of the 
peace ; though if the person be a peer of 
the realm, he must be apprehended for a 
breach of the peace by warrant out of the 
King’s Bench. 
A general warrant to apprehend all per- 
sons suspected, without naming or particu- 
larly describing any person in special, is 
illegal and void for its uncertainty : for it is 
the duty of the magistrate, and ought not 
• to be left to the officer, to judge of the 
ground of the suspicion. Also a warrant to 
apprehend all persons guilty of such a crime 
is no legal warrant; for the point upon 
whicii its authority re.sts is a fact to be de- 
cided on a subsequent trial ; namely, whe- 
ther the person apprehended thereupon be 
guilty or not guilty. A warrant may be 
iawfiilly 'granted by any justice, for (reason, 
felony, prsemunire, or any ofl'ence against 
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