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conveniences adapted to this purpose. Nichols's Lit . Anecd. 
Walpole's Works. Gen. Biog. 
WALPOLE, a parish of England, county of Suffolk, near 
Halesworth. Population 492. 
WALPOLE, St. Andrew’s, a parish of England, county 
of Norfolk ; 4 miles from Wisbeach. 
WALPOLE, St. Peter’s, another parish in Norfolk, ad¬ 
joining to the foregoing. Population 811. 
WALPOLE, a post township of the United States, in 
Norfolk county, Massachusetts; 20 miles south-west of Bos¬ 
ton. Population 1098. 
WALPOLE, a post township of the United States, in 
Cheshire county, New Hampshire, on the Connecticut, oppo¬ 
site Westminster, with which it is connected by a bridge. 
This is an excellent agricultural township ; 12 miles south of 
Charlestown, and 90 west-north-west of Boston. Population 
1894. 
WALPOLE, Point, a cape on the west coast of North 
America, and south-west point of entrance into Port Hough¬ 
ton. Lat. 57. 17. N. long. 226. 47. E. 
WALRABENSTEIN, a town of Germany, duchy of 
Nassau; 3 miles north of Idsteia. 
WALRIDGE, a hamlet of England, county of Durham; 
5§ miles north-west of Durham. 
WALSALL, a market town and parish of England, and 
borough, in the county of Stafford. It is situated on a plea¬ 
sant eminence, and consists chiefly of 12 large and regular 
streets. It is a thriving and flourishing town, and carries on 
various manufactures, chiefly the making of buckles, chapes, 
snaffles, bridle-bits, spurs, stirrups, and all sorts of hardware 
employed in saddlery. The church, dedicated to St. Mat¬ 
thew, or All Saints, formerly belonged to the abbey of Hales 
Owen. Though a corporation, Walsall sends no members 
to Parliament. The government of the town is vested in a 
mayor, recorder, 24 aldermen or capital burgesses, a town- 
clerk, two sergeants at mace, and a beadle. A court of quar¬ 
ter sessions is regularly held at stated periods, in which the 
mayor and mayor-elect preside, as justices of peace for the 
borough. Walsall is a place of great antiquity, and is re¬ 
garded as the second market town in the county. Market on 
Tuesday,-and three annual fairs; 15 miles south of Stafford, 
and 116 north-west of London. Population 11,189. 
WALSCHLEBEN, a village of Prussian Saxony; 6 miles 
north-north-west of Erfurt. Population 1100. 
WALSDORF, a large village of Bavarian Franconia; 4 
miles west of Bamberg. 
WALSEE, Lower, a small town of Lower Austria, on 
the Danube ; 14 miles east of Enns. 
WALSH (William), was born at Abberley in Worces¬ 
tershire, in 1633, and having finished his education as gen¬ 
tleman-commoner of Wadliam college in Oxford, he travelled 
abroad for further improvement, and after his return attracted 
notice as a man of letters and of fashion. He also assumed 
a political character, and represented his native county in 
parliament, and distinguished himself by actively promoting 
the Revolution. He is supposed to have died in 1709. 
Dryden, with whom he cultivated friendship, repaid his 
attentions with that praise which he was disposed liberally 
to bestow on those whom he wished to distinguish, deno¬ 
minating him “ the best critic of our nation,” and he fur¬ 
nished a preface to his “ Dialogue concerning Women.” 
Pope also acknowledges early obligations to him in the fol¬ 
lowing terms: 
“ And knowing Walsh would tell me I could write.” In 
his “ Essay on Criticism,” he denominates him the “ Muse’s 
judge and friend," and with the ardour of youth, gives him 
the credit of having “ taught his early voice to sing.” It 
has been observed, however, that Mr. Walsh’s rank in the 
scale of literature scarcely entitled him to the high panegyric 
either of Dryden or of Pope; for neither his miscellaneous 
poems, nor his prose pieces, of which one was his “ Essay 
on Pastoral Poetry,” justify the very distinguished honour 
which they conferred upon him. Biog. Brit. Johnson's 
Lives of the Poets. Gen. Biog. 
WALSHAM, or North Walsham, a market town of 
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England, in the county of Norfolk, situated about five or six 
miles from the sea. It consists of three streets, which form 
an irregular triangle. At the junction of these is the parish 
church. In the reign of Edward III. bishop Thirlby built a 
market-cross here, which was afterwards repaired by bishop 
Redman. Here is a good free school, and an excellent 
market for corn, butcher’s meat, and all sorts of provisions. 
Market on Thursday, and an annual fair on the Wednesday 
before Ascension day; 10 miles north of Norwich, and 122 
north-north-east of London. Population 2035. 
WALSHAM, South, a village of England, county of 
Norfolk; 2j miles north-west-by-west of Acle. Population 
536. 
WALSHAM IN THE WILLOWS, a parish of England, 
county of Suffolk; 9 miles north-north-west of Market Stow. 
Population 948. 
WALSHFORD, a hamlet of England, in the West Riding 
of Yorkshire; 3£ miles north-by-east of Wetherby. 
WALSINGHAM, Great, a market town and parish of 
England, in the county of Norfolk, situated on the banks of 
a small river, which falls into the sea, about seven miles to 
the north. It is chiefly celebrated for its ancient monastery, 
famous for the shrine of the holy Virgin, which was as much, 
if not more, frequented, than the shrine of St. Thomas-a- 
Beckett, at Canterbury. The present remains of this once 
noble monastic pile, is a portal or west entrance gateway, a 
richly ornamented lofty arch, sixty feet high, which formed 
the east end of the church, supposed to have been erected in 
the time of Henry VII.; the refectory, a Saxon arch; part 
of the original chapel, part of the old cloisters, a stone bath, 
and two uncovered wells, called the wishing wells. The 
church at Walsingham is a large and interesting pile, dis¬ 
playing in its architecture, ornameuts, monuments, and font, 
much to interest and gratify the antiquary. The latter is not 
only the finest specimen of the sort in the county, but per¬ 
haps in England. There was a house of Grey Friars in Wal¬ 
singham, founded by lady Elizabeth de Burgh, countess of 
Clare; but its fame was eclipsed by the superior grandeur of 
its neighbour. What is at present used as a bridewell, was 
also an hospital for lazars, which was founded in the year 
I486. Walsingham has a good free school. Market on 
Friday, and an annual fair on Whit-Monday; 25 miles north¬ 
west of Norwich, and 116 north-north-east of London - Po¬ 
pulation 1008. 
WALSINGHAM, Little, a parish of England, county 
of Norfolk, about two miles distant from Great Walsingham. 
Population 347. 
WALSINGHAM, Cape, of Davis, a cape on the east 
coast of America, at the north side of the entrance into Cum¬ 
berland straits. Lai. 64. 10. N. long. 66. W. 
WALSINGHAM, Cape, of Frobisher, a cape at the 
south-east extremity of Hale island, in Davis’s straits at the 
entrance of Frobisher’s straits. Lat. 62. 50. N. long. 64. 
58. W. 
WALSOKEN, a parish of England, county of Norfolk; 
12 J miles south-west-by-west of Lynn Regis. Population845. 
WALSRODE, a town of Germany, in Hanover, on the 
river Bohme; 3 miles north-west of Zelle. Population 
1500. 
WALSTADT, Great and Little, two villages of 
Bavarian Franconia, situated on the opposite banks of the 
Maine, and containing, along with a small district, 3900 in¬ 
habitants ; 6 miles south-by-west of Aschaffenburg. 
WALSTON, a parish of Scotland, in Lanarkshire, near 
the eastern borders of the county. Population 377. 
WALSTON BLACK MOUNT, a hill of Scotland, in 
the parish of Walston, elevated above 1550 feet above the 
level of the sea. 
WALTDORF, a small town of Germany, in Baden; 6 
miles south-west of Heidelberg. 
WALTER-NIENBURG, a small town of Prussian Saxony 
on the Elbe; 12 miles north-west ofZerbst. 
WALTERSBERG, a small town of Germany, in the 
duchy of Nassau, and the Westerwald; 10 miles north-north¬ 
east of Limburg. 
WALTERSDORF, 
