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WHAME, s. The or burrel-fly, is vexatious to ■ 
horses in summer, not by stinging, but by their bombylious 
noise, or tickling them in sticking their nits on the hair. 
Tier ham- 
WHAMPOA, a seaport of China, situated on an island 
in the river of Canton, about two miles below Canton itself. 
Here large ships anchor, and carry on their communication 
with Canton by boats. All European vessels are allowed to 
wear a flag in their boats, which prevents their being stopped 
at the custom-houses; while those of Asiatic nations must 
have a chop or pass, to be renewed at every custom-house. 
The island on which Whampoa is situated, is called Bank- 
shall island, from being the place where storehouses are con¬ 
structed of bamboos and mats, to contain the ships’ stores, 
overhaul the rigging, repair casks, &c. Immediately on the 
arrival of any vessel, two custom-house boats are placed 
along-side, to prevent clandestine trade, and without whose 
permission no goods can be shipped or landed. Lat. 23. 6. N. 
WHANG, s. [Spang, Sax.] A thong: a leather thong. 
A word used in several parts of the. north. 
To WHANG, v. a. To beat; perhaps with thongs. 
Grose. 
WIIAP, s. A blow'. A low expression. 
WHAPLODE, a township of England, in Lincolnshire; 
2 miles west of Holbeach. 
WHAPLODE DROVE, a hamlet in the above county ; 
6 miles east-north-east of Crowland. 
WHA'PPER, s. Any thing uncommonly large; a thumper. 
Common in the north o f England. 
WHARF, s. \warf, Swedish; werf, Dutch. Mr. H. 
Tooke pronounces our word the past participle of the Sax. 
hpyppan, pyppan, atnbire, projicere. Serenius derives it from 
the Icel. huerfa, in gyrum agitare, noticing hpeoppa, Sax., 
crepido litoris, a forma circulari sic diet.] A perpendicular 
bank or mole, raised for the convenience of lading or empty¬ 
ing vessels; a quay, or key. 
Duller should’st thou be, than the fat weed, 
That roots itself in ease on Lethe’s wharf, 
Would’st thou not stir in this. Shalcspeare. 
WHARF, a river of England, in Yorkshire, which rises 
at the foot of the Craven hills, and waters the beautiful dis¬ 
trict of Wharfdale. After passing by Otley, Weatherby, 
and Tadcaster, and crossing the West Riding, in a course of 
more than 50 miles, it discharges itself into the Ouse, at the 
village of Nun Appleton. It runs with a swift, impetuous 
current, and its course is mostly to the south-east. 
WIIA'RFAGE, s. Dues for landing at a wharf. 
WHA'RFINGER, s. One who attends a wharf.—Boat- 
takers and wharfingers ought to be diligent to provide for 
the transport of the provisions where ordered. Maydman. 
WHARKTQN, a parish of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire, near Kettering. 
WHARLES, a township of England, in Lancashire; 3 
miles north-east of Kirkham. 
WHARRAM, Percy, a township of England, East 
Riding of Yorkshire ; 8 miles south-east of New Malton. 
WHARRAM IN THE STREET, another township in 
Yorkshire, 1 mile distant from the foregoing. 
WHARTON (Henry), an English divine of the Esta¬ 
blished Church, was born in 1664, at Worstead, in Norfolk, 
where his father was vicar; and in his sixteenth year admit¬ 
ted a pensioner of Gonville and Caius college at Cambridge, 
where he assiduously pursued the study of various branches 
of literature, and particularly of mathematics, under Isaac 
Newton, Lucasian professor. After taking the degree of B.A. 
with great reputation, he assisted Dr. Cave in his “ Historia 
Literaria,” contributing almost the whole of the appendix 
of the three last centuries. In 1687 he took orders, and his 
degree of M.A. in the following year. He had various lite¬ 
rary occupations, chiefly in writing or editing treatises against 
Popery ; until he took priest’s orders, when he was presented 
first to the vicarage of Minster in the isle of Thanet, and in 
1689 to the rectory of Chartham. By the advice of Dr. 
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Lloyd, bishop of St. Asaph, he undertook the work which 
gave some celebrity to his name, entitled “ Anglia Sacra, 
sive Collectio Historiarum, partim antiquitus, partim recenter 
Scriptarum, de Archiepiscopis et Episcopis Angliae a prima 
Fidei Christianse susceptione ad Annum 1540,” 2 vols. fol. 
London, 1691. An additional part was published after his 
death in 1695, under the title, of “ Historia de Episcopis et 
Decanis Londinensibus; necnon de Episcopis et Decanis 
Assavensibus (St. Asaph); a prima Sedis utriusque Fundati- 
one ad Annum 1540,” 8vo. The author’s “ Anglia Sacra” 
was the result of great industry and labour, and evinces the 
author’s zeal for the church to which he belonged ; but it is 
chargeable with incorrectness. In 1692 he published “ A 
Defence of Pluralities;” in the following year he edited some 
ancient theological pieces; and, under the name of An¬ 
thony Harmer, published “ A Specimen of some Errors and 
Defects in the History of the Reformation of the Church of 
England, by Gilbert Burnet, D.D.,” a work which excited 
the indignation of the author, and caused him to mention 
Wharton with asperity in the introduction to the third vo¬ 
lume of that work. The last publication of Wharton was 
“ The History of the Troubles and Trial of Archbishop 
Laud ;” to which were added Laud’s diary, and some other 
pieces. He also edited the Life of Cardinal Pole, by Baca- 
telli, together with some animadversions on Strype’s Memo¬ 
rials of Archbishop Cranmer. Although his constitution 
was strong, he closed his life, in consequence of intense ap¬ 
plication, somewhat prematurely, in March, 1694-5, in the 
31st year of his age, leaving several MSS., some of which 
were afterwards printed, as also two volumes of sermons. 
He was interred in Westminster-abbey.— Biog. Brit. 
WHARTON (Philip, Duke of), the son of the marquis 
of Wharton, who was a firm supporter of the Revolution 
and Hanover succession, was born in 1699; and after ha¬ 
ving exhibited talents which commanded notice, when he 
was 13 or 14 years of age, in the course of his education 
under domestic tutors, contracted a premature marriage with 
the daughter of major-general Holmes, and thus disappoin¬ 
ted his father’s views, and hastened his death in 1715. In 
the beginning of 1716, Philip set out on his travels, pro¬ 
posing to finish his education at Geneva; but the young 
marquis, having contracted a taste for gaiety and expense, 
was disgusted with the manners of that place, and leaving 
his governor there, proceeded to Lyons, and wrote to the 
Pretender at Avignon, accompanying his letter with the 
present of a fine horse. The Pretender was highly gratified, 
and receiving the marquis at his court, decorated him with 
the title of the duke of Northumberland. At Paris he paid 
his respects to the dowager-queen of James II., and received 
notice and good advice from the English ambassador, lord 
Stair. About the end of 1716 he returned to England, and 
going over to Ireland, where he possessed a peerage, he was 
admitted to take his seat in the House of Lords of that king¬ 
dom. Here, deserting the principles and connection which 
he had lately formed, he defended the established govern¬ 
ment wilh all the powers of his reasoning and eloquence; 
in consequence of which he was advanced to a dukedom, by 
the style of duke of Wharton, in the county of Westmore¬ 
land. Upon coming to age, he took his seat in the English 
House of Lords, where he distinguished himself by an aban¬ 
donment of his lately avowed principles, in the defence of 
bishop Atterbury ; and he also published a virulent opposi¬ 
tion paper, inlitled “ The True Briton.” But such was his 
boundless extravagance, that his estate was vested, by a de¬ 
cree of chancery, in the hands of trustees, who allowed him 
an annuity of 1200/. Having only this pittance, he deter¬ 
mined to live abroad, and to enter into the service of the 
Pretender. Having visited Vienna and Madrid, he formed 
an acquaintance at the latter place with a young lady of 
Irish extraction, who was maid of honour to the queen of 
Spain, and married her; his duchess having died in 1726, 
without leaving any issue From Rome, where he appeared 
under the title of the duke of Northumberland, and decorated 
with a blue ribband and garter, he returned to Spain, and 
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