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Pleased; desirous.—He stoop’d with weary wings and 
willing feet. Milton —Favourable; well disposed to any 
thing.—As many as were willing hearted brought bracelets 
and ear-rings. Ex. —Ready; complying.—We’ve willing 
dames enough. Shakspeare. —Chosen. 
They’re held with his melodious harmony. 
In willing chains, and sweet captivity. Milton. 
Spontaneous. 
Forbear, if thou hast pity, 
These groans proceed not from a senseless plant. 
No spouts of blood run willing from a tree. Dry den. 
Consenting.'—How can hearts not free serve willing ? 
Milton. 
WILLING’S CREEK, a river of the United States, in 
Mississippi, which runs into the Mississippi. Lat. 30. 49. N. 
long. 91. 21. W. 
WILLINGALE, Doe, or Willingehall de Ou, a 
parish of England, in Essex; 4b miles north-east of Chip¬ 
ping Ongar. 
WILLINGALE, Spain, or Willingehall deIspania, 
another parish in the above county, adjoining the foregoing. 
WILL1NGBOROUGH, a post township of the United 
States, in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. Population 
351.—2. A township of Burlington county, New Jersey, on 
the Delaware. 
WILLINGDON, a parish of England, in Sussex; 2 miles 
north-by-west of East Bourne. 
WILLINGHAM, or Wivelingham, a parish of En¬ 
gland, in Cambridgeshire; 8| miles north-west of Cam¬ 
bridge. Population 972. 
WILLINGHAM, a hamlet of England, in Cambridge¬ 
shire; 5| miles south-by-east of Newmarket.—2. A parish 
in Lincolnshire; 6 miles south-east of Gainsborough.—3. 
A parish in Suffolk ; 4| miles south of Beccles. 
WILLINGHAM, Cherry, a parish of England, in Lin¬ 
colnshire ; 3 miles east-by-north of Lincoln. 
WILLINGHAM, North, a parish in the above county; 
4 miles east-by-south of Market Raisen. 
WILLINGHAM, South, another parish in Lincolnshire; 
5 miles east-north-east of Wragby. 
WI'LLINGLY, adv. With one’s own consent; without 
dislike; without reluctance. 
I dare not make myself so guilty, 
To give up willingly that noble title 
Your master wed me to. Shakspeare. 
By one’s own desire.—The condition of that people is not 
so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it. 
Addison. 
WI'LLINGNESS, s. Consent; freedom from reluctance; 
ready compliance. 
For never yet a generous mind did gain ; 
We yield on parley ; but are storm’d in vain; 
Constraint, in all things, makes the pleasure less, 
Sweet is the love which comes with willingness. Dry den. 
WILLINGTON, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 4 
miles east of Bedford.—2. A township in Cheshire; 3 miles 
north-north-west of Tarporley.—3. A parish in Derbyshire; 
7 miles south-west of Derby.—4. A township in Durham ; 
4 miles north of Bishop Auckland.—5. A township in Nor¬ 
thumberland; 3 miles west-by-north of North Shields.— 6. 
A township in Warwickshire, near Shipston-upon-Stour.—7. 
A township of the United States, in Tolland county, Con¬ 
necticut; 7 miles east of Tolland. Population 1161.—8. 
A post village of Abbeville district, South Carolina; 5 miles 
east-south-east of Vienna. Here is an academy. 
WILLINK, a post township of the United States, in 
Niagara county, New York, on the east end of Lake Erie; 
15 miles south of Buffaloe. Population 2028. 
WILLIS (Browne), an eminent antiquary, the grandson 
of Dr. Willis, a celebrated physician, was born at Blandford 
in 1682, and was removed from Westminster-school in the 
year 1690 to Oxford, where he was admitted a gentleman- 
commoner of Christ-church; and after leaving the university 
he prosecuted his studies for three years under Dr. Wotton. 
When he came into possession of the family estate, he was 
returned, in 1705, as a representative for the town of Bucking¬ 
ham. In 1715 and 1716 he published two parts of a work, 
intitled “ Notitia Parliamentaria ; or a History of the Coun¬ 
ties, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales, with Lists 
of all the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses,” 8vo., to which, 
in 1750, he added a third part, being an appendage to the 
journals of the house of commons, then printed. On the 
revival of the Society of Antiquaries in 1717, he was chosen 
a member; and he sustained his reputation as an antiquary 
by various writings, among which are, “ Surveys of the Four 
Welsh Cathedrals;” “ History of the United Parliamentary 
Abbeys and Conventional Cathedral Churches;” “ Survey of 
the Cathedrals of England, with Parochiale Anglicanum,” 3 
vols. 4to.; “ History and Antiquities of Buckingham.” In 
1723 he received, in consideration of his literary merit, from 
the university of Oxford, the degree of A. M. by diploma. 
He possessed a fine cabinet of English coins, which in 1741 
he presented to the university of Oxford; the university, in 
consideration of his family, liberally paying for those of 
gold by weight, and conferring upon him the degree of 
LL. D. He died in 1760, in the 78th year of his age. 
Biog. Brit. 
WILLIS (Thomas), an eminent physician, was born in 
1621-2, at Great Bedwin, in Wiltshire; and in 1636 admit¬ 
ted into Christ-church college, Oxford, where he took the 
usual degree with a view to the clerical profession. But he 
changed his purpose, and studied physic, taking his bache¬ 
lor’s degree in 1646, and commencing medical practice at 
Oxford. He distinguished himself by his steady attachment 
to the church of England, and also by his love of science, so 
that he became one of the first members of that philoso¬ 
phical society at Oxford, which laid the foundation of the 
Royal Society of London. As a chemist, which was the 
character under which he was ambitious of excelling, he pub¬ 
lished, in 1659, a work intitled “ Diatribse duse; prior agit de 
Fermentatione, altera de Febribus. His accessit Dissertatio 
epistolica de Urinis.” The recompence of his attachment to 
the cause of episcopacy and loyalty was the Sedelian profes¬ 
sorship of natural philosophy at Oxford, conferred upon him 
after the Restoration, by the recommendation of archbishop 
Sheldon, soon after which he received the degree of doctor. 
Upon the establishment of the Royal Society, he was one of 
its first members. In the year 1664, when he is said to have 
discovered, and brought into use, the mineral water of Astrop 
in Northamptonshire, he published his “ Cerebri Anatome ; 
cui accessit Nervorum Descriptio et Usus.” This work, on 
which his reputation principally depends, was followed, in 
1667, by his “ Pathologia Cerebri et Nervosi Generis, in qua 
agitur de Morbis convulsivis, et de Scorbuto.” Before this 
year he was settled in London, and being nominated a phy¬ 
sician in ordinary to the king, was advancing to the first 
rank in practice. His next publication was intitled “ Adfecti- 
onum quae dicuntur Hystericse et Hypochondriacse Pathologia 
Spasmodica, vindicata contra responsionem epistolarem Nath. 
Highmori. Cui accesserunt Exercitationes Medieo-Physi- 
cae de Sanguinis Accensione, et Motu Musculari,” 1670. 
On occasion of the loss of his wife, a daughter of dean Fell, 
he amused himself by writing his work “ De Anima Bruto- 
rum quae Hominis Vitalis ac Sensitiva est; Exercitationes 
duae,” 1672, in which he considers the soul of brutes as the 
same with the vital principle in man, corporeal in its nature 
and perishing with the body. After his second marriage, he 
began to print, in 1673, his “ Pharmaceutice Rationale, sive 
Diatriba de Medicamentorum Operationibus in Humano Cor- 
pore ;” but he did not live to publish this work, as he was 
carried off by a pleurisy in 1675, at the premature age of 54, 
in the full vigour of his faculties and zenith of his reputation. 
Dr. Willis had no powers for appearing with advantage and 
brilliancy in society; but he was intent on science and prac¬ 
tice, frugal, pious, and charitable. His works engaged great 
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