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208 Court, he held aloof from those amusements and pursuits which he felt were dragging his country to ruin. He cut his hair close round his head, thus earning the nickname of Roundhead as opposed to the long-haired Cavalier, for long hair was to him a luxury and a temptation to vanity. He disliked the soft brimmed hat of the Cavalier, with its graceful ease, wearing instead a stiff, high-crowned, broad-brimmed hat at once severe and forbidding. His doublet and hose were of dark coarse cloth, and his stockings of thick worsted. He wore no bright colours, no lace, no jewels, no ruff; round his neck was a broad folded band of linen. Here were no slashings, no "rustle of silks, no waving of plumes, no clink of golden spurs."

The Puritan lady dressed likewise in sombre hues. She wore a plain silk gown of grey with a folded white handkerchief, or cape with long close sleeves and a plain hood tied under the chin, or a broad-brimmed felt hat with a high crown. All was neat and plain and picturesque, a contrast to the Court beauty and to her gay courtier in his graceful clothes. His doublet was of silk or satin with loose, slashed sleeves, his wide collar of fine lace high up round the throat and turned


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 at Chatsworth. As vice-president of the Linnean Society, of which he was fellow from 1818, Dr. Wallich frequently presided over its meetings. He died in Gower Street, London, 28 April 1854.

Wallich, who received the degree of M.D. from Marischal College and University of Aberdeen in 1819, was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1829; he was also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. An oil portrait of him, by Lucas, is at the Linnean Society's apartments, and a lithograph was published by Maguire, in the Ipswich series. An obelisk was erected to his memory by the East India Company in the botanical garden at Calcutta; and, though his name was applied by several botanists to various genera of plants, the admitted genus Wallichia is a group of palms so named by William Roxburgh. In addition to the more important works already mentioned, Wallich is credited in the Royal Society's ‘Catalogue’ (vi. 252) with twenty-one papers, mostly botanical, contributed between 1816 and 1854 to the ‘Asiatick Researches,’ ‘Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,’ ‘Transactions of the Linnean Society,’ of the ‘Calcutta Medical and Physical Society,’ and of the ‘Agricultural Society of India,’ the ‘Journal of Botany,’ and the journals of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Horticultural Society.

His son, [q. v.] (1815–1899), graduated M.D. from Edinburgh in 1836, became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1837, and entered the Indian medical service in 1838. He received medals for his services in the Sutlej and Punjáb campaigns of 1842 and 1847, and was field-surgeon during the Sonthal rebellion in 1855–6. In 1860 he was attached to the Bulldog on her survey of the Atlantic bottom for the purposes of the proposed cable, and for more than twenty years he continued to study marine biology, publishing in 1860 ‘Notes on the Presence of Animal Life at Vast Depths in the Ocean,’ and in 1862 ‘The North Atlantic Sea-bed,’ and receiving the gold medal of the Linnean Society for his researches. He died on 31 March 1899 (Lancet, 8 April 1899).

[Gardeners' Chronicle, 1854, p. 284; information furnished by the late Dr. G. C. Wallich.]

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WALLINGFORD, JOHN (d. 1258), historical writer, gives his name to a chronicle of English history existing in Cottonian MS. Julius D. vii. 6, and printed by Gale in 1691 in his ‘Historiæ Britannicæ Saxonicæ Anglo-Danicæ Scriptores XV’ (called by him vol. i., though generally described as vol. iii. of Gale and Fell's collection). From internal evidence it appears that John of Wallingford became a monk of St. Albans in 1231, was in priest's orders, served the office of infirmarer, either composed or simply copied as a scribe (scriptor) the chronicle in question, and died at Wymondham, Norfolk, a cell of St. Albans, on 14 Aug. 1258.

John of Wallingford is confused by Gale in his preface, and by Freeman (Norman Conquest, i. 344 n.), with John, called de Cella, abbot of St. Albans, who studied at Paris, where he gained the reputation of being a ‘Priscian in grammar, an Ovid in verse, and a Galen in medicine.’ He was elected abbot of St. Albans on 20 July 1195, rebuilt the west front of the abbey church, and died on 17 July 1214.

The chronicle associated with John of Wallingford's name extends from 449 to 1035, and, as published, takes up only pp. 525–50; but it is longer in manuscript, for Gale, as he says in his preface, omitted some things and abridged in other parts, specially those dealing with hagiology; his omissions are more frequent than would be gathered from his text. The author evidently used several excellent authorities, such as Bede, the Saxon priest's ‘Life of Dunstan,’ Florence of Worcester, and the like; but, though he makes some attempts at comparison and criticism, has inserted so many exaggerations and misconceptions apparently current in his own time, and has further so strangely confused the results of his reading, that his production is historically worthless. More than once he speaks of his intention to write a larger chronicle.

[Mon. Hist. Brit. Introd. p. 22, virtually repeated in Hardy's Cat. Mat. i. 625–6.]

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It was not dress alone that determined the ever-widening breach between Roundhead and Cavalier. The Puritans were strong enough in the Parliament of 1642 to interfere with popular sports and pastimes in England. Bear-baiting, cock-fighting, and horse-racing were forbidden, theatres were closed, and acting companies dispersed. "Whereas," ran the proclamation, "public sports do not well agree with public calamities, nor public stage plays with the seasons of humiliation … it is thought fit that while these sad causes … do continue, public plays shall cease." Sunday was very strictly observed, and all persons were forbidden to be present on Sundays at wrestling, shooting, bowling, ringing of bells for pleasure, games,


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In abhsadh, slackening of a sail, and abhsporag, stomach of a cow, both northern forms apparently, written also respectively allsadh and allsporag, bh represents the sound of u, and the explanation of the forms seems to be first diphthongisation of a into au before ll, and then assimilation of ll to the following s. Aibhsich, exaggerate, from aibheis, boasting, aibheis, sea, abyss, the deep (?), appears also as aillsich; but the latter form seems to be due to the influence of aillse, a fairy, diminutive creature, pigmy, confused with aibhse, spectre, sprite, apparition, diminutive being. With MacAlpine aibheis has the meaning of a place full of fairies. Comparison may be made with taillse, a spectre or apparition, the pronunciation in some parts of the Highlands of aillse according to Armstrong; it is the current equivalent in Perthshire of taibhse, a ghost, and it is to be accounted for, doubtless, by confusion between taibhse and aillse.

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 elected on 16 Jan. 1452. Throughout the abbacy of Whethamstede Wallingford held office as ‘official general,’ archdeacon, and also as chamberlain (ib. i. 5, 173). Faction raged high among the monks, and grave charges were then or later brought against Wallingford, which are detailed at great length in Whethamstede's ‘Register’ (ib. i. 102–35). They are, however, evidently an interpolation, probably by a monk jealous of Wallingford, and Whethamstede not only took no notice of these accusations, but continued Wallingford in all his offices. In 1464 he was, as archdeacon, appointed by the abbot one of a commission for the examination of heretics (ib. ii. 22). Ramridge, Wallingford's successor as abbot, says that he first became distinguished as archdeacon for his care of education, training ten young monks at his own expense, and for the lavish attention he bestowed upon the abbey buildings and treasures. He built ‘many fair new buildings’ for the abbey, ranging from the library to a stone bakehouse, while those buildings which were falling into a ruinous state he repaired. He also presented the abbey with many rich treasures, such as a gold chalice and precious gold-embroidered vestments. Their value was 980 marks.

When, upon the death of Whethamstede on 20 Jan. 1465, William Albon, the prior, was on 25 Feb. elected his successor, Wallingford took a leading part in the election (ib. ii. 27, 30, 36, 37). On 18 March the new abbot, with the common consent of the monks, created Wallingford prior of the monastery. His previous office of archdeacon he continued to exercise (ib. ii. 50, 90). In 1473 he was granted, with others, a commission for the visitation of the curates and vicars of St. Peter's, St. Andrew's, St. Stephen's, and St. Michael's of the town of St. Albans (ib. ii. 109). As prior he kept up his interest in the maintenance of the monastic buildings, spending 360l. on the kitchen, and within eight years laying out a thousand marks on the repairs of farms and houses. He built a prior's hall, and added all that was necessary for it (, Monasticon, ii. 206 n.).

After Abbot Albon's death on 1 July 1476, Wallingford was on 5 Aug. unanimously elected to succeed him. Wallingford's register covers the years from 1476 to August 1488, though certain leaves are torn out from the end of it. Wallingford took little part in outside affairs. He resisted successfully certain claims of Archbishop Bourchier over the abbey, which were decided in the abbot's favour upon appeal to Rome (ib. ii. 206 n.;, History of St. Albans, p. 398; , p. 35). In 1480 Wallingford was appointed by the general chapter of Benedictines at Northampton visitor of all Benedictine monasteries in the diocese of Lincoln, but he commissioned William Hardwyk and John Maynard to conduct the visitation in his place (Registra, ii. 219). His government of the abbey was marked by regard for strict discipline tempered with generosity. Thus, while he deposed John Langton, prior of Tynemouth, for disobedience to his ‘visitors’ (ib. 15 March 1478, ii. 186), he gave letters testimonial for the absolution of a priest who by misadventure had committed homicide (ib. 20 Aug. 1476, ii. 246, 247). He manumitted certain villeins and their children (ib. 1480, ii. 208, 235). Wallingford sent in 1487 John Rothebury, his archdeacon, to Rome in order to try to win certain concessions for the abbey, but the mission proved a failure (ib. ii. 288, 289).

Wallingford's abbacy shows some of the weak points characteristic of fifteenth-century monasticism. There is a desire to make the best of both worlds. The lay offices of the abbey were turned to advantage. For example, in 1479 Wallingford conferred the office of seneschal or steward of the liberty of St. Albans, with all its emoluments, on William, lord Hastings (Registra, ii. 199, 200), notwithstanding the fact that Abbot Albon had already in 1474 conferred the same on John Forster for life. Three years afterwards Wallingford gave the office jointly to the same Lord Hastings and John Forster. However, Lord Hastings was put to death by Richard III soon after, and Forster, after being imprisoned in the Tower for nearly nine months, ‘in hope of a mitigation of his punishment, did remit and release all his title and supreme interest that he had in his office of seneschal of St. Albans.’ This is one instance of several (ib. ii. 267, 268) which show that the lay offices of the abbey were used for selfish ends. The attitude of Wallingford to the bishops was conciliatory as a rule, sometimes even obsequious. Thus, when he feared the loss of the priory at Pembroke, given by Duke Humphrey, through Edward's resumption of grants made by his three Lancastrian predecessors, he applied humbly to the chancellor, George Neville, bishop of Exeter, for his good offices, and through him secured a re-grant. The bishop later, in return, was granted the next presentation of the rectory of Stanmore Magna in Middlesex (ib. ii. 92). Mr. Riley, in his introduction to the second volume of Whethamstede's ‘Chronicle,’ is, however, unduly severe in his interpretation of many of Wallingford's acts.

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210 dancing, masques, or other pastimes. Up to this time, Sunday had been the great day for games of all sorts: tennis and golf, cricket and the new game of pall mall and football were all played on Sunday, though the latter game in the time of the Commonwealth seems to have been very rough and to have incurred much displeasure. We hear of an apothecary, John Bishop, who with "force and arms did wilfully and in a violent and boisterous manner run to and fro and kick up and down in the common High Street of Maidstone a certain ball of leather commonly called a football unto the great annoyance and incumbrance of the said common highway and to the great disquiet and disturbance of the good people, and to the evil example of others."

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Rh into a soldier, the young farmer became a dragoon with carbine and pistol. There was no uniform as yet, for there was no standing army. Cavaliers fought in buff coats shining with gold and silver embroidery, in large Spanish hats with drooping feathers, their long hair floating over their shoulders; they were for the most part gentlemen's sons, men of honour, courage, and resolution, fighting for King and Church against the splendid middle class of the country, the Roundheads of Cromwell, "men of religion" as they called themselves, Puritans, who allowed no drinking, blasphemy, or impiety in their ranks. There were great men on either side ready to lay down their lives for "The King" or "The Cause." Women, too, rose to meet their responsibilities with a capability and courage that stands out brightly in our social history. To pay the necessary expenses, the wealthy brought their bags of gold and silver, the poor their smallest offerings, "a thimble, bodkin, and spoon," until Cavaliers jeered at the "thimble and bodkin" army of the zealous sisterhood.


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 Lady Townley and Hermione. The following season she was again engaged, and was seen in many characters, including Rutland in ‘Earl of Essex,’ Lady Gentle in ‘Lady's Last Stake,’ Zaphira in ‘Barbarossa,’ and Marchioness in ‘Doubtful Son.’ She never quite recovered her lost ground, however, and from this time disappears.

Miss Wallis had a graceful figure and a pretty, dimpled face. She had capacity for the expression of sadness but not of deep passions. Her comedy was pretty, but artificial and simpering. She had a voice pleasing but uncertain, deficient in range and imperfectly under control. She was charged with inattention and walking through her parts. Of these, Miss Dorillon, in ‘Wives as they were and Maids as they are,’ was perhaps the best. She was also successful as Joanna in the ‘Deserted Daughter,’ Julia in the ‘Way to get Married,’ and Jessy Oatland in the ‘Cure for the Heartache.’ She was unrivalled in parts which required simplicity, an unaffected deportment, modesty and sweetness. This seems to have been her own character, her purity and simplicity of life having won her a high character and many friends.

A portrait as Juliet, by John Graham, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796, is in the possession of Robert Walters, esq., of Ware Priory, Hertfordshire. Romney painted her portrait in 1788, before she went on the Covent Garden stage, as ‘Mirth and Melancholy.’ This picture, sold for 50l. at Romney's sale, was engraved by Keating, and published 4 Jan. 1799. She seems to have been Romney's model at a later date.

WALLIS, GEORGE (1740–1802), physician and author, was born at York in 1740. He studied medicine, and, after gaining the degree of M.D., obtained a large practice at York. He was much attached to theatrical amusements, and besides other pieces composed a mock tragedy entitled ‘Alexander and Statira,’ which was acted at York, Leeds, and Edinburgh. In 1775 a dramatic satire by him, entitled ‘The Mercantile Lovers,’ was acted at York. The play possessed merit enough for success, but it sketched too plainly the foibles of prominent citizens of the town. Through their resentment Wallis lost his entire medical practice, and was obliged to remove to London, where an expurgated edition of the play appeared in the same year. In London he commenced as a lecturer on the theory and practice of physic, and in 1778 published an ‘Essay on the Evil Consequences attending Injudicious Bleeding in Pregnancy’ (London, 1781, 2nd edit. 8vo). He died in London, at Red Lion Square, on 29 Jan. 1802.

Besides the works mentioned, he was the author of: He edited the ‘Works of Thomas Sydenham on Acute and Chronic Diseases,’ London, 1789, 2 vols. 8vo, and the third edition of George Motherby's ‘Medical Dictionary,’ London, 1791, fol.
 * 1) ‘The Juvenaliad,’ a satire, 1774, 4to.
 * 2) ‘Perjury,’ a satire, 1774, 4to.
 * 3) ‘Nosologia Methodica Oculorum, or a Treatise on the Diseases of the Eyes, translated and selected from the Latin of Francis Bossier de Sauvages,’ London, 1785, 8vo.
 * 4) ‘The Art of preventing Diseases and restoring Health,’ London, 1793; 2nd edit. 1796; German translation, Berlin, 1800.
 * 5) ‘An Essay on the Gout,’ London, 1798, 8vo.

WALLIS, GEORGE (1811–1891), keeper of South Kensington Museum, son of John Wallis (1783–1818) by his wife, Mary Price (1784–1864), was born at Wolverhampton on 8 June 1811, and educated at the grammar school from 1820 to 1827. He practised as an artist at Manchester from 1832 to 1837, but, taking an interest in art education as applied to designs for art manufactures and decorations, he won one of the six exhibitions offered by the government in 1841 and joined the school of design at Somerset House, London. He became headmaster of the Spitalfields schools in January 1843, and was promoted to the headmastership of the Manchester school on 15 Jan. 1844, which position he resigned in 1846, as he could not agree with changes in the plan of instruction originated at Somerset House. In 1845 he organised at the Royal Institution, Manchester, the first exhibition of art manufactures ever held in England, and in the same year he delivered the first systematic course of lectures on the principles of decorative art, illustrated with drawings on the blackboard. These lectures led Lord Clarendon, then president of the board of trade, to ask Wallis to draw up a chart of artistic and scientific instruction as applied to industrial art. This chart is said to have been the basis of the instruction afforded by the present science and art department (, Schools


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212 A brewer's wife, the Puritan Ann Stagg, headed a procession of women to the House of Commons with a petition when war was imminent. "It may be thought strange and unbecoming to our sex to show ourselves here, bearing a petition to this honourable assembly; but Christ purchased us at as dear a rate as He did men, and therefore requireth the same obedience for the same mercy as of men; we are sharers in public calamities."

"Repair to your homes, we entreat," was the earnest answer, "and turn your petitions into prayers at home for us."

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 WALLIS, JOHN (1789–1866), topographer, born in Fore Street, Bodmin, on 11 April 1789, was the son of John Wallis (1759–1842), attorney and town clerk of Bodmin, by his wife Isabella Mary, daughter of Henry Slogget, purser in the royal navy. He was educated at Tiverton grammar school, and afterwards articled to his father. After being admitted a solicitor and proctor he matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, on 17 Dec. 1813, graduating B.A. on 7 July 1820, and M.A. on 20 March 1821. On completing his residence at Oxford he was ordained in 1817, and was appointed vicar of Bodmin on 17 Nov. of the same year. He was a capital burgess of the borough, and served the office of mayor in 1822. In 1840 he became an official of the archdeacon of Cornwall, a post which he retained till his death.

Wallis was an ardent topographer, and executed several maps and plans of Bodmin and the surrounding districts. His first publication was a reprint of the index to Thomas Martyn's ‘Map of the County of Cornwall,’ to which he appended a short account of the archdeaconry of Cornwall (London, 1816, 8vo). In 1825 he published thirteen outline maps of the archdeaconry and county of Cornwall, on the scale of four miles to the inch. Between 1831 and 1834 he published several reports and tables dealing with Bodmin borough, and between 1827 and 1838 he published in twenty parts ‘The Bodmin Register,’ containing elaborate collections relating to the past and present state of the borough, besides particulars concerning the county, archdeaconry, parliamentary districts, and poor-law unions of Cornwall. He projected also an ‘Exeter Register,’ to comprise the rest of the see. The first part was published in 1831, but no more appeared. In 1847 and 1848 he brought out the ‘Cornwall Register,’ in twelve parts, which contained particulars concerning the Cornish parishes, and was accompanied by a map of Cornwall on the scale of four miles to an inch.

Wallis died at Bodmin vicarage, unmarried, on 6 Dec. 1866, and was buried at Berry cemetery on 11 Dec. Besides the works mentioned he was the author of a ‘Family Register’ (1827, 12mo), and of several small pamphlets, chiefly on topographical subjects.

[Wallis's Works; Gent. Mag. 1867, i. 124; Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub.; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1715–1886; Foster's Index Eccles.; West Briton, 14 Dec. 1866; Boase's Account of the Families of Boase, 1876, p. 56.]  WALLIS, PROVO WILLIAM PARRY (1791–1892), admiral of the fleet and centenarian, only son of Provo Featherstone Wallis, chief clerk to the naval commissioner at Halifax, Nova Scotia, was born at Halifax on 12 April 1791. His mother was a daughter of William Lawlor, major in the 1st battalion of the Halifax regiment. It has been suggested that he was related to Captain Samuel Wallis [q. v.], which is not improbable. It is more certain that he was the grandson of Provo Wallis, a carpenter in the navy, who, after serving through the seven years' war, was in 1776 carpenter of the Eagle, the flagship of Lord Howe in North America, and appointed by him on 3 March 1778 to be master-shipwright of the naval yard established at New York. After the peace he was transferred to Halifax.

At an early age young Wallis was sent to England, and while there at school his name was borne on the books of several different ships on the Halifax station. He actually entered the navy in October 1804 on board the Cleopatra, a 32-gun frigate, commanded by Sir Robert Laurie. On her way out to the West Indies on 16 Feb. 1805 the Cleopatra, after a gallant action, was captured by the French 40-gun frigate Ville de Milan, which was herself so much damaged that a week later, 23 Feb., she surrendered without resistance to the 50-gun ship Leander. The Cleopatra was recaptured at the same time (, Naval History, iv. 26), and Laurie was reinstated in the command. Shortly afterwards Laurie was appointed to the Ville de Milan, commissioned as the Milan, and Wallis went out with him. In November 1806 he was appointed acting-lieutenant of the Triumph, with Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy [q. v.], and on 30 Nov. 1808 was officially promoted to be lieutenant of the Curieux brig, which a year later, 3 Nov. 1809, was wrecked on the coast of Guadeloupe. He was then appointed to the Gloire, and, after one or two other changes, was appointed in January 1812 to the Shannon, commanded by Captain (afterwards Sir) Philip Bowes Vere Broke [q. v.] He was second lieutenant of her in the brilliant capture of the Chesapeake on 1 June 1813, and, being left—by the death of the first lieutenant and Broke's dangerous wound—commanding officer, took the Shannon and her prize to Halifax. The prisoners, being considerably more numerous than the crew of the Shannon, were secured in handcuffs, which they themselves had provided. On 9 July Wallis was promoted to the rank of commander, and, returning to England in the Shannon in October, was appointed in Ja-


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 nuary 1814 to the Snipe sloop. On 12 Aug. 1819 he was advanced to post rank.

From 1824 to 1826 he commanded the Niemen on the Halifax station; in 1838–9 the Madagascar in the West Indies and off Vera Cruz; and from 1843 to 1846 the Warspite in the Mediterranean. On 27 Aug. 1851 he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral, and in 1857 was appointed commander-in-chief on the south-east coast of South America, from which he was recalled on his promotion to be vice-admiral, 10 Sept. 1857. He had no further service, but was nominated a K.C.B. on 18 May 1860, promoted to be admiral on 2 March 1863; rear-admiral of the United Kingdom, 1869–70; vice-admiral of the United Kingdom, 1870–1876; G.C.B. 24 May 1873; admiral of the fleet, 11 Dec. 1877. By a special clause in Childers's retirement scheme of 1870 it was provided that the names of those old officers who had commanded a ship during the French war should be retained on the active list, and the few days that Wallis was in command of the Shannon brought him within this rule. His name was thus retained on the active list of the navy till his death. During the latter part of his life he resided mainly at Funtington, near Chichester, in full enjoyment of his faculties, and reading or writing with ease till a few months before the end. On his hundredth birthday (12 April 1891) he received congratulations by letter or telegram from very many, including one from the queen, from the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, the mayor and corporation of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the captain and officers of the Shannon, then lying at Falmouth. He died on 13 Feb. 1892, and was buried with military honours at Funtington on 18 Feb. Wallis married first, on 19 Oct. 1817, Juliana, daughter of Archdeacon Roger Massey, by whom he had two daughters. He married, secondly, on 21 July 1849, Jemima Mary Gwyne, a daughter of General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson [q. v.], governor of Gibraltar.

[‘Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo W. P. Wallis: a Memoir,’ by Dr. J. G. Brighton, 1892 (with portraits); O'Byrne's Nav. Biogr. Dict.; Royal Navy Lists.]

WALLIS, RALPH (d. 1669), nonconformist pamphleteer, known as ‘the Cobler of Gloucester,’ was, according to the minutes of the Gloucester corporation, admitted on 8 June 1648 ‘to keepe an English schoole at Trinity church’ (since demolished). On 5 Aug. 1651 the corporation paid the charges of his journey ‘to London about the city business.’ On 24 Sept. 1658 he was made a burgess and freeman of the city on the ground of his ‘many services.’ At the Restoration he appears as a pamphleteer of the Mar-Prelate type, attacking with rude jocular virulence the teaching and character of the conforming clergy. Adopting the sobriquet ‘Sil Awl’ (an anagram on Wallis), he called himself ‘the Cobler of Gloucester,’ and his pamphlets take the form of dialogues between ‘the Cobler’ and his wife. His earliest pamphlets appear to have borne the titles ‘Magna Charta’ and ‘Good News from Rome.’ On 18 Jan. 1664 he is reported as ‘lurking in London,’ under the alias of Gardiner; he lodged in the house of Thomas Rawson, journeyman shoemaker, in Little Britain, and employed himself in dispersing his pamphlets. Money for printing them was collected by James Forbes (1629?–1712) [q. v.], the independent. Correspondence between Wallis and his wife Elizabeth was intercepted. Two warrants (12 May and 20 June) were issued for his apprehension. In September his house at Gloucester and the houses of Toby Jordan, bookseller at Gloucester, and others, were searched for seditious books. On 28 Sept. (Sir) Roger L'Estrange [q. v.] wrote to Henry Bennet (afterwards Earl of Arlington) [q. v.] that he had Wallis in custody. On 1 Oct. Rawson, Wallis, and Forbes were examined by the privy council. Wallis admitted his authorship, and declared himself to be in religion ‘a Christian.’ He obtained his release, Sir Richard Browne (d. 1669) [q. v.] being his bail. In a petition to Arlington, Wallis affirmed that he ‘only touched the priests that they may learn better manners, and will scribble as much against fanatics, when the worm gets into his cracked pate, as it did when he wrote those books.’ In April 1665 he was examined before the privy council for a new pamphlet, ‘Magna Charta, or More News from Rome’ (the British Museum has a copy with title ‘Or Magna Charta; More News from Rome,’ 1666, 4to). On 15 April 1665 William Nicholson (1591–1672) [q. v.], bishop of Gloucester, wrote to Sheldon that, ‘though much favour had been shown him’ (he had specially attacked Nicholson), ‘he sells the books publicly in the town and elsewhere, and glories in them.’ In his last known pamphlet, ‘Room for the Cobler of Gloucester’ (1668, 4to), which L'Estrange calls (24 April 1668) ‘the damnedest thing has come out yet,’ he tells a story which is commonly regarded as the property of Maria Edgeworth [q. v.] ‘The Lord Bishop is much like that Hog, that, when some Children were eating Milk out of a Dish that stood upon a Stool, thrust his Snowt into


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Rh deere son's heart to leve that merciless company that was the deth of his father, for now I think of it with horror, before with sorrow. So, deere sone. … Our Lord bless you. Your loveing Mother."

Neither are the brave letters of Brilliana, Lady Harley, less conspicuous. In the absence of husband and son she managed the estates, harbouring her Puritan neighbours in the Castle. At the end of a six weeks' siege she died at her post. But during that six weeks we have glimpses of her making pies and cakes to send to her husband, knitting socks, and sending shirts and handkerchers to the deere son Ned she loved so well, and to whom she pens her last letter: "My deere Ned, I thank God, I am not afraid; it is the Lord's cause that we have stood for."

Not only as defenders of their homes, but as sick nurses, too, women shone in these three stern years of civil war. One "with excellent balsams and plasters" dressed many dangerous gun-shot wounds with such success "that they were all well cured in convenient time." Standing at her door one day, she saw three sorely-wounded prisoners carried past her bleeding: she ordered them to be brought to her, and, although they


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 the Dish, and drank up all; not regarding the Children, who cryed, “Take a Poon, Pig, take a Poon”’ (p. 39; cf. Simple Susan). Wallis's anecdotes, often brutally coarse, are not always without foundation (see, Nonconformity in Hertfordshire, 1884, p. 538). He died in 1668–9; the burial register of St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester, has the entry ‘Randulphus Wallis fanaticæ memoriæ sepult. Feby 9.’ In 1670 appeared a tract entitled ‘The Life and Death of Ralph Wallis, the Cobler of Gloucester, together with some inquiry into the Mystery of Conventicleism;’ it gives, however, no biographical particulars. A later tract, ‘The Cobler of Gloucester Revived’ (1704), 4to, contains nothing about Wallis.

[Wallis's pamphlets above noted; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1664, 1665, and 1668; Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, 1887, iii. 433; Extracts from Gloucester Corporation records and parish register, per the Rev. W. Lloyd.]

WALLIS, ROBERT (1794–1878), line-engraver, born in London on 7 Nov. 1794, was son of Thomas Wallis, who was an assistant of Charles Heath (1785–1848) [q. v.] and died in 1839. He was taught by his father, and became one of the ablest of the group of supremely skilful landscape-engravers who flourished during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, particularly excelling in the interpretation of the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner [q. v.] He was employed upon the illustrations to Cooke's ‘Southern Coast of England,’ Turner's ‘England and Wales’ and ‘Rivers of France,’ Heath's ‘Picturesque Annual,’ Jennings's ‘Landscape Annual,’ the fine editions of the works of Scott, Campbell, and Rogers, the ‘Keepsake,’ the ‘Amulet,’ the ‘Literary Souvenir,’ and many other beautiful publications. On a larger scale he engraved various plates for the ‘Art Journal’ from pictures by Turner, Callcott, Stanfield, Fripp, and others, and many for the ‘Turner Gallery.’ Wallis's finest productions are the large plates after Turner, ‘Lake of Nemi’ and ‘Approach to Venice;’ a proof of the latter was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1859, and on its completion he retired from the profession. The remainder of his life was passed at Brighton, where he died on 23 Nov. 1878.

(1805?–1890), brother of Robert, practised for some years as an engraver of small book-illustrations, but early in life was compelled by attacks of paralysis to seek another occupation. He then turned to picture-dealing, and eventually became the proprietor of the French Gallery in Pall Mall, which he conducted successfully until shortly before his death, which occurred on 15 Oct. 1890.

Another brother, William Wallis, born in 1796, is known by a few choice plates executed for Jennings's ‘Landscape Annual,’ Heath's ‘Picturesque Annual,’ the ‘Keepsake,’ &c.

[Athenæum, 1878, ii. 695; Art Journal, 1879; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Times, 24 Oct. 1890; list of members of the Artists' Annuity Fund.]

WALLIS, SAMUEL (1728–1795), captain in the navy, born at Fentonwoon, near Camelford, Cornwall, and baptised at Lanteglos on 23 April 1728, was the third son of John Wallis of Fentonwoon (1680–1768) by Sarah (d. 1731), daughter of John Barrett. After serving through the war in a subordinate grade, Wallis was promoted to be lieutenant in the navy on 19 Oct. 1748. In January 1753 he was appointed to the Anson, with Captain Charles Holmes [q. v.], and in April 1755 to the Torbay, the flagship of Vice-admiral Edward Boscawen [q. v.] In February 1756 he joined the Invincible, and on 30 June was promoted to command the Swan sloop. On 8 April 1757 he was posted to the Port Mahon, a 20-gun frigate attached to the fleet which went out to North America with Admiral Francis Holburne [q. v.] In September 1758 he was appointed by Boscawen to the Prince of Orange of 60 guns, one of the fleet, in the following year, with Sir Charles Saunders [q. v.] in the St. Lawrence. On the North American station in 1760 and in the Channel fleet in 1761–2 he commanded the Prince of Orange till the peace. In June 1766 he was appointed to the Dolphin, then refitting for another voyage similar to that which she had just made under the command of Commodore John Byron (1723–1786) [q. v.] In the Dolphin, and having in company the Swallow sloop, commanded by Philip Carteret [q. v.], Wallis sailed from Plymouth on 22 Aug. After touching at Madeira, Porto Praya in the Cape Verd Islands, and Port Famine, where they cleared out and dismissed their victualler, the two ships passed through the Straits of Magellan and came into the Pacific on 12 April 1767. Then they separated, nor did they again meet. Wallis, in the Dolphin, at once kept away to the north-west, taking a course totally different from that followed by all his predecessors, none of whom, in fact, except Magellan and Byron, had primarily aimed at discovery. The others, whether Spaniards or Englishmen looking out for Spaniards, had stuck close to the track of the Spanish trade. The result was that Wallis opened out a part of the ocean


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214 were her enemies, she bound up and dressed their wounds. These were not days famous for mercy, pity, and forgiveness, and she was remonstrated with. "I have done nothing but what I think is my duty," she affirmed, "in humanity to them as fellow-creatures, not as enemies."

So, too, Anne Murray worked, evidently with some knowledge of nursing and strong nerves. "I believe threescore was the least that was dressed by me and my women and a man who I employed to such as was unfit for me to dress; and besides the plasters or balsam I applied I gave every one of them as much as might dress them three or four times, for I had provided myself with things necessary for that employment, expecting they might be useful." Many of the wounds had been left too long, but when others shrank from dressing them, this brave woman struggled on. "None was able to stay in the room, but all left me," she says of one bad case. "Accidentally a gentleman came in, who seeing me cutting off the man's sleeve of his doublet, which was hardly fit to be touched, he was so charitable as to take a knife and cut it off and fling it in the fire."

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 till then unknown, and first brought to European knowledge the numerous islands of the Low Archipelago and of the Society Islands, including Tahiti, which he called King George the Third's Island. Thence he made for Tinian, which he reached on 19 Aug., having discovered many new islands on the way. After staying a month at Tinian, he went to Batavia, and thence home by the Cape of Good Hope, arriving in the Downs on 18 May 1768. Without having displayed any particular genius as a navigator or discoverer, Wallis is fully entitled to the credit of having so well carried out his instructions as to add largely to our knowledge of the Pacific; and still more to that of having kept his ship's company in fairly good health. During the whole voyage, though thrown entirely on their own resources, there was no serious outbreak of scurvy, and when the ship arrived at Batavia there was one man sick. Batavia was then and always a pestilential hole, and while there many men died of fever and dysentery; but on leaving Batavia the sickness at once abated, and a month in Table Bay did away with much of the remaining evil. In November 1770 Wallis was appointed to the Torbay, commissioned on account of the dispute with Spain about the Falkland Islands; and in 1780 he for a short time commanded the Queen. In 1782 he was appointed an extra commissioner of the navy; the office was abolished in 1783, but was reinstituted in 1787, when Wallis was again appointed to it, and remained in it till his death at Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London, on 21 Jan. 1795. His widow Betty, daughter of John Hearle of Penryn, died at Mount's Bay on 13 Nov. 1804, leaving no issue.

Wallis's account of his voyage, first printed in Hawkesworth (1733), was repeated in Hamilton Moore's ‘Collection of Voyages’ (1785), in Robert Wilson's ‘Voyages’ (1806), in Kerr's ‘General History of Voyages’ (1814), and in Joachim Heinrich Campe's collection (Brunswick, 1831). Some of the charts and maps made by Wallis are in Addit. MS. 21593.

[Gent. Mag. 1804, ii. 1080; Maclean's Trigg Minor, ii. 370 sq.; Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornubiensis, p. 850; Charnock's Biogr. Nav. vi. 277; Naval Chronicle, xxxiii. 89; Hawkesworth's Voyages of Discovery, vol. i.; Commission and Warrant books in the Public Record Office.]

WALLMODEN, AMALIE SOPHIE MARIANNE, (1704–1765), born on 1 April 1704, was daughter of Johann Franz Dietrich von Wendt, general in the Hanoverian service, by his wife Friderike Charlotte, born von dem Busche, widow of General Welk, also in the Hanoverian service. In 1727 she was married to Gottlieb Adam von Wallmoden, ‘Oberhauptmann’ of Calenberg, Hanover. Blonde, sprightly, amiable, niece of Lady Darlington, and great-niece of the elder Countess Platen, Frau von Wallmoden attracted in 1735 the attention of George II during his summer sojourn in the electorate. She received from him without hauteur gallantries which he frankly communicated to the queen, by whom they were as frankly encouraged. Caroline's complaisance was probably dictated rather by policy than by indifference, for a touch of bitterness is apparent in the ‘Ah, mon Dieu! cela n'empêche pas,’ with which on her deathbed she rejoined to the ‘Non, j'aurai des maîtresses’ with which the king met her suggestion that he should marry again. The king kept his word, and when the time of mourning had elapsed Frau von Wallmoden was brought over from Hanover and installed in St. James's Palace. In 1739 she was divorced from her husband, and in the following year (24 March) she was created Countess of Yarmouth. Her advent was hailed by Walpole in the hope that her influence might be politically serviceable. Lady Yarmouth, however, proved entirely unfit for the rôle of a Pompadour, and had the good sense to abstain as a rule from meddling in court intrigues. On the death of the king, whose affection she never lost, she returned to Hanover, where she died on 19 Oct. 1765. She left issue two sons, Franz Ernst and Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden. The latter, born on 27 April 1736, was brought up at the English court and reputed the fruit of her intimacy with the king. As, however, he was born before the divorce, his paternity is doubtful. He entered the Hanoverian service, and bore high command with no great distinction in the war with the French (1793–1801). He died at Hanover on 10 Oct. 1811.

Some of Lady Yarmouth's letters are preserved in Additional MSS. 6856, 23814 f. 578, 32710–969, and Egerton MS. 1722 ff. 35, 132.

[Duerre's Regesten des Geschlechtes von Wallmoden, pp. 248, 255; Malortie's Beiträge zur Gesch. des Braunschweig-Lüneburgischen Hauses u. Hofes, v. 149; Vehse's Gesch. der Höfe des Hauses Braunschweig, i. 273; Siebenfach. Königl. Gross.-Britannisch. u. Churfürstl. Braunschweig-Lüneburgisch. Staats-Calendar, 1740 p. 72; Lord Hervey's Mem. i. 499; Lord Chesterfield's Letters, ed. Mahon, iii. 274; Bielfeld's Friedrich


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  der Grosse u. sein Hof, i. 101; Collins's Peerage, ed. Brydges, ix. 413; Nicolas's Historic Peerage, ed. Courthope; Gent. Mag. 1765, p. 492; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, ‘Wallmoden.’]  WALLOP, HENRY (1540?–1599), lord justice of Ireland, eldest son and heir of Sir Oliver Wallop of Farleigh-Wallop in the county of Southampton, and nephew and heir of Sir John Wallop [q. v.], governor of Calais, was born apparently about 1540. He was J.P. for Hampshire in 1569, and, being in that year knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Basing, he was appointed, along with Sir William Kingsmill, to take a view of the defences of Portsmouth, and to provide the county of Southampton with arms and armour (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1547–80, pp. 368, 384). He was returned M.P. for the town of Southampton to the parliament which met on 8 May 1572, and established a reputation for usefulness. In 1575 he was placed on a committee of the house appointed to consider the nature of the petition to be made to the queen on the motions touching the reformation of discipline in the church, his own views tending in the direction of puritanism. In the same session he was appointed, with other members of the house, to confer with the lords in regard to private bills (, Journal, p. 277). Being a commissioner ‘for restraining the transport of grain out of the county of Surrey,’ he dissented from the view of his fellow-commissioners that they should regard their county as their family and send from it nothing that it wants, holding on the contrary ‘that markets shoulde be free for alle men to bye … and yt ys most reasonable that one contrye shoulde helpe an other with soche comodytes as they are able to spare.’ But being a ‘grete corn man’ his views on free trade were regarded as interested (Hist. MSS. Comm. 7th Rep. p. 629). He suffered much at this time from ague (ib. p. 631), and from Walsingham he received a friendly warning against a spare diet and too free indulgence in mineral waters (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1547–80, p. 502).

In consequence of the death of Sir Edward Fitton [q. v.] Wallop was in July 1579 offered the post of vice-treasurer to the Earl of Ormonde in Ireland. He accepted with great reluctance, and received his commission on 10 Aug., but retained his seat in parliament (, Journal, p. 277). He landed at Waterford on 12 Sept., but his health was so bad that on reaching Dublin he was obliged for several weeks to keep to his chamber. His appointment coincided with the outbreak of the Desmond rebellion, and Wallop, taking a pessimistic view of the situation, was sharply reprimanded by Burghley for his unconscionable demands on the queen's purse. He apologised. Nevertheless, he was right in thinking the situation critical, especially after the death of Sir William Drury [q. v.] on 30 Sept. 1579. To Drury succeeded Sir William Pelham [q. v.], and towards the latter end of February 1580 Wallop moved to Limerick in order to be near the seat of the war. He speedily detected the possibility of turning the rebellion to the benefit of the state by erecting an English plantation in Munster, and on 22 April he expounded his views on the subject to Walsingham (Cal. State Papers, Irel. ii. 219). After a severe illness he went, towards the end of July, to Askeaton, where he made discovery of a feoffment of his estate by the Earl of Desmond before entering into rebellion, of which he subsequently made capital use.

In August Arthur Grey, fourteenth lord Grey de Wilton [q. v.], came over as viceroy, and Wallop, accompanying Pelham to Dublin, was present when the latter resigned the sword of state to Grey on 7 Sept. Himself an advocate of strong measures, he was utterly dissatisfied with Elizabeth's temporising government, especially at the practice of filling up the regiments with native Irish, and on 14 March 1581 he expressed a desire to be allowed to withdraw from his post. He was appointed a commissioner for ecclesiastical causes on 10 April. In July he accompanied Grey on an expedition against Sir Turlough Luineach O'Neill [q. v.] But Elizabeth's parsimonious government and his own ill-health filled him with despair. He had, he declared, since his appointment as vice-treasurer spent 2,000l. of his own money, and his inability to fulfil his obligations to the merchants of Dublin prevented him raising any fresh loans. He renewed his request to be allowed to retire; but Elizabeth knew too well the value of an honest servant to accede, and, in prospect of Grey's recall, she appointed Wallop and Adam Loftus [q. v.], archbishop of Dublin, lords justices on 14 July 1582 (Cal. Fiants, Eliz. 3975).

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Rh but a few words must be said about the first newspapers by which men and women got their news during the war.

As early as the year 1622 Nathaniel Butter hit on the idea of printing all the news of the day upon a single sheet and publishing it regularly week by week under a distinctive title. The news writers, special correspondents as we call them to-day, used to make their way from tavern to tavern, picking up odds and ends of news; they would squeeze into the Old Bailey to report some interesting trial, or obtain admission to the gallery of Whitehall to notice how the King was dressed. With the outbreak of the war the demand for news increased, and each side started its own newspaper. The Royalist paper, Mercurius Aulicus, appeared in 1643, and numerous others followed. There was the Kingdom's Weekly Intelligencer, the Weekly Post, the Mercurius Politicus, the Public Advertiser, &c. One hundred and seventy weekly papers are said to have started between 1642 and 1649. These little sheets had a powerful effect. They were distributed through the villages by carriers and foot posts; countrywomen carried them from the market town in their egg-baskets, and those who could read eagerly


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216 devoured the news, which was often more false than true.

By this means the people learnt that the war was at an end; that after a trial, famous in history, the King had been beheaded; that "the House of Peers in Parliament was useless and dangerous and ought to be abolished," and, finally, "that the office of King in this nation was unnecessary, burdensome, and dangerous to the liberty, safety, and public interest of the people, and ought to be abolished." Such revolutionary measures must have filled the people's minds with that idea of instability which must needs accompany rapid change. With the victory of Puritanism fresh measures of suppression took place. Cathedral worship was put down, buildings were defaced and injured, altars and tables of stone in churches were abolished, communion tables removed from the east end of the church, rails pulled down, candlesticks taken away, crucifixes, images, and crosses destroyed. How careless men had grown about public worship is shown by Evelyn: "They read and pray without method, without reverence or devotion. I have beheld a whole congregation sit with their hats on, at the reading of the Psalms … in divers places they read not the Scriptures at all, but up into the


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Rh pulpit, where they make an insipid, tedious, and immethodical prayer … after which follows the sermon … which nor the people nor themselves well understand, but these they extend to an extraordinary length … and well they may, for their chairs are lined with prodigious velvet cushions, upon which they loll and talk till almost they sleep. Few take notice of the Lord's Prayer; it is esteemed a weakness to use it. Such of the churches as I have frequented were dammed up with pews, every three or four of the inhabitants sitting in narrow pounds or pulpits by themselves. The apprehension of Popery having carried them so far to the other extreme, they have lost all moderation and decorum." The idea of the Commonwealth was to make men religious and temperate by Act of Parliament. Hence profane cursing and swearing were fined; the first offence for a duke, marquis, earl, viscount, or baron was 30s.; a baronet or knight, 20s.; esquire, 10s.; gentleman, 6s. 8d.; and all others 3s. 4d. A woman indulging in oaths was fined according to the position of her husband or father. Those unable to pay were put in the stocks, or, if under the age of twelve, they were whipped. All buying and selling on Sunday was stopped, travelling was forbidden,


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218 drunkenness was fined, and all Sunday amusements were stopped, till the country wore an air of gloomy satisfaction, very unlike the merrie England of Queen Elizabeth.

A Republican simplicity ruled supreme—the reformed style of living resembled the old Saxon coarseness. The Protector's wife set an example of pious plainness. She ate marrow puddings for breakfast, and fed her husband on sausages of hog's liver. When she suspected general discontent in her household she was heard to remark: "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace." Nevertheless, when the huge experiment of the Commonwealth was ended and all is said and done, when two centuries and more have matured the harsh austerity of the Puritans and toughened the graceful ease and luxury of the Cavaliers, it must be owned that Puritanism left the mass of Englishmen what it made them, "serious, earnest, sober in life and conduct, firm in their love of … freedom." It introduced a note of sobriety and purity into English society; it imposed self-restraint, simplicity of living, stern justice, and elevation of thought, and it has been thoughtfully said that the "whole history of English progress since the Restoration … has been the history of Puritanism."


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HEN Charles II., the Merry Monarch, came to his own again in 1660 and once more occupied the throne of his ancestors, the whole country burst into unrestrained joy. But if Englishmen had eleven years previously swept away a Court and its vices, they now had unwittingly restored a Court with worse vices. Deplorable indeed were the morals of the newly-restored Court. The age was one of "coarse wit and loud laughter, of clever talk, of dancing, duelling, dining, theatre-going, card-playing, horse-racing, and of amusement raised to the dignity of a fine art." Passions sternly repressed


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220 by the Puritans burst forth unrestrained as soon as the check was withdrawn. The desire for amusement was indulged to the full, little or no restraint being imposed. Cock-fighting and bull-baiting, "butcherly sports," were once more freely witnessed by all classes of society. Ladies and gentlemen, disguised with masks, mixed with the common people at crowded fairs and low entertainments. Cards and gambling passed away the precious hours, and "cursing, swearing, grumbling, and rejoicing were heard to an accompanying rattle of guineas." Women joined enthusiastically; night after night they sat at the card-table indulging in this fashionable folly, heedless of rebuke and warning:

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Rh Play at Billiards, Bowls, and Chess, together with all Manner of Gentile Games either in Cards or Dice." One chapter is devoted to "English Ruff and Honours and Whist," which apparently every child of eight years old was expected to play. That a good deal of cheating took place we may infer from the following significant passage: "He that can by craft overlook his adversary's game hath a great advantage, for by that means he may partly know what to play securely. There is a way to discover to their partners what honours they have; as the wink of one eye or putting one finger on the nose or table, it signifies one honour; shutting both the eyes, two; placing three fingers or four on the table, four honours." Billiards, one of the few games allowed through the gloomy Commonwealth, now grew in popularity, till in 1688 there were few towns in England without a public billiard table. The game at this time differed very considerably from our modern game. The balls were very small, the cues were tipped with ivory, the bed of the table was made of oak or marble, the pockets or hazards were merely wooden boxes.

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222 were daily packed. Every class resorted thither to gamble and bet, quarrel and thieve.

"To Shoe Lane," writes Pepys in 1663, "to see a Cocke-fighting at a new pit there, a spot I was never at in my life: but Lord! to see the strange variety of people, from Parliament man … to the poorest prentices, bakers, brewers, butchers, draymen and what not; and all these fellows are cursing and betting. I soon had enough of it." To render the cocks fit for this horrid sport their crests and spurs were cut off, while their food was mixed with pepper, cloves, and the yolks of eggs, to heat them and render them more vigorous for battle, which ended only with the death of one or the other. Play-going was enthusiastically revived, but the drama was very different to what it had been in the glorious days of Shakspere. True, we hear of revivals of "Henry IV.," "Hamlet," and "Henry VIII.," but for the most part the new comedies to which our forefathers flocked at this time were of the coarsest nature, a clear reflection of their ideas and manners. We see them crowding the theatres with noisy enjoyment, roaring applause to brilliant dialogue, sparkling wit and repartee. Love, marriage, immorality were treated with coarse freedom; virtue


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Women and slaves are exempt from reciting the Shema because it is a positive obligation which is time-dependent. But it is correct to teach them to (recite it in order to) accept upon themselves the yoke of the kingdom of heaven. Rema: and they should recite at least the first verse.

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Children are exempt, according to Rabbeinu Tam, only before they have reached school age. According to Rashi, even children of school age are exempt because they are not up and about at night-time and they are asleep in the morning. It is appropriate to follow the custom according to Rabbeinu Tam.

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One who has married a virgin is exempt from reciting the Shema for three days, if he has not yet consummated the marriage, because he is engaged in the performance of a mitzvah. The preceding words applied at the time of the Rishonim. But nowadays, when everyone's concentration is not as it should be, someone who has recently married a virgin is required to recite it. Rema: see below Chapter 99 on the question whether a drunkard is required to recite the Shema.

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If one is engaged in work for the needs of the community and the time for reciting the Shema arrives, he should not interrupt his work. Rather, he should finish his tasks and then recite the Shema if there remains time left for him to do so.

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One who is engaged in eating, or washing, or cutting his hair or scraping oil from his skin or one who is involved in a court-case:

(a) according to the Rambam, he should complete what he is doing and afterwards recite the Shema. If he fears that the time for reciting the Shema may pass and he interrupts his activity and recites it, then he is praiseworthy.

(b) according to the Ra'avad, he should interrupt his activity and recite the Shema, even if there will be time left over to recite it afterwards.


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Weird Tales/1946

January
Volume 39, Issue 3

Cover art by A. R. Tilburne

 * Kurban [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
 * Chariots of San Fernando • Malcolm Jameson • short story
 * Sin's Doorway • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
 * Seed • Jack Snow • short story
 * Mr. Bauer and the Atoms • Fritz Leiber • short story (© Copyright renewed: Fritz R. Leiber, Jr. (A); 17Aug73; R557440.)
 * Satan's Phonograph • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 24Nov72; R539285.)
 * Pikeman • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 18Apr73; R550750.)
 * The Diversions of Mme. Gamorra • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * All the Time in the World • Charles King • short story
 * Recapture • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
 * Superstitions and Taboos • Irwin J. Weill • article

March
Volume 39, Issue 4

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye

 * Twice Cursed [*John Thunstone] • Manly Wade Wellman • novelette
 * The Bogey Man Will Get You • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 29Oct73; R561999.)
 * The Man in Crescent Terrace [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
 * Dead Man's Shoes • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 18Apr73; R550752.)
 * Chanu • Jim Kjelgaard • short story
 * The Jonah • Emil Petaja • short story
 * Tunnel Terror • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * The Traveller • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 27Jun73; R554510.)
 * Forgetful Hour • Yetza Gillespie • verse
 * Tree Woman • Dorothy Quick • verse
 * Superstitions and Taboos • Irwin J. Weill • article

May
Volume 39, Issue 5

Cover art by Ronald Clyne

 * The Valley of the Gods • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
 * Midnight • Jack Snow • short story
 * Three in Chains [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * The Man in Purple • Dorothy Quick • short story
 * The Smiling People • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 30Nov73; R564255.)
 * Once There Was an Elephant • R. H. Phelps • short story
 * Rain, Rain, Go Away! • Gardner F. Fox • short story
 * The Silver Highway • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * Frozen Fear • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 29Oct73; R562001.)
 * The Haunted Stairs • Yetza Gillespie • verse
 * The Nixie's Pool • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

July
Volume 39, Issue 6

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * Shonokin Town [*John Thunstone] • Manly Wade Wellman • novelette
 * The Night • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 30Nov73; R564256.)
 * The Wings • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * The Man Who Told the Truth • Robert Bloch [as Jim Kjelgaard] • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (under name of Jim Kjelgaard); 29Oct73; R562005.)
 * Catspaws [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn •
 * I'll Be Glad When I'm Dead • Charles King • short story
 * The Cinnabar Redhead • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Shingler • E. L. Wright • short story
 * For Love of a Phantom • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
 * Ghost • P. Schuyler Miller • short story
 * Long Watch • Dorothy Quick • verse
 * Moon Phantoms • Dorothy Haynes Madle • verse
 * Superstitions and Taboos • Irwin J. Weill • article

September
Volume 39, Issue 7

Cover art by Pete Kuhlhoff

 * Lotte [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Day of Judgment • Edmond Hamilton • short story
 * Enoch • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 29Oct73; R562004.)
 * Alice and the Allergy • Fritz Leiber • short story (© Copyright renewed: Fritz R. Leiber, Jr. (A); 17Aug73; R557441.)
 * Not Human • Bert David Ross • short story
 * The Horn • Charles King • short story
 * The Machine • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * Six Flights to Terror • Manly Banister • short story
 * The Polar Vortex • Malcolm Ferguson • short story
 * Threshold of Endurance • Betsy Emmons • vignette
 * Xerxes' Hut • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Port • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

November
Volume 39, Issue 8

Cover art by Boris Dolgov

 * Spawn of the Green Abyss • C. Hall Thompson • novelette
 * Mayaya's Little Green Men • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * Let's Play "Poison" • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 30Nov73; R564257.)
 * A Collector of Stones • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 2May74; R576886.)
 * Eyes in the Dark • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Lizzie Borden Took an Axe... • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 29Oct73; R562006.)
 * Shipmate • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * Frogfather • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
 * The Door • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse
 * Heard on the Roof at Midnight • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

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Weird Tales/1947

January
Volume 39, Issue 9

Cover art by A.R. Tilburne

 * The Hog [*Carnacki] • William Hope Hodgson • novelette
 * The Final Hour • Chester S. Geier • short story
 * The Extra Passenger • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 2May74; R576888.)
 * The King of Shadows • Edmond Hamilton • short story
 * The House Beyond Midnight • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * Cellmate • Theodore Sturgeon • short story
 * Shadow of Melas • Roger S. Vreeland • short story
 * There Was an Old Woman • Charles King • short story
 * The Handler • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 30Nov73; R564258.)
 * The Familiars • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
 * The Pigeon-Flyers • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
 * The Seal-Woman's Daughter • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

March
Volume 39, Issue 10

Cover art by Boris Dolgov

 * Mr. George • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • novelette (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 2May74; R576889.)
 * Fluffy • Theodore Sturgeon • short story
 * Hoodooed • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Venturer of the Martian Mimics [aka "I, Spy!" & "Spiro"] • Eric Frank Russell • novelette
 * The Immortal Lancer • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * The Terror in Teakwood • Harold Lawlor • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Harold Lawlor (A); 28Jan74; R570414.)
 * Sweets to the Sweet • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 9Dec74; R592211.)
 * Continuity • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
 * A Memory • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
 * On a Weird Planet • Stanton A. Coblentz • verse

May
Volume 39, Issue 11 (issue number also used in July)

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * The Place with Many Windows • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * Masked Ball • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Mistress Sary • Philip Klass [as William Tenn] • short story (© Copyright renewed: Philip Klass (pen name: William Tenn) (A); 27Feb75; R598967.)
 * The Lifted Veil • Ray Cummings • short story
 * The Corbie Door • Carl Jacobi • short story
 * The Black Madonna • Harold Lawlor • short story (© Copyright renewed: Harold Lawlor (A); 22Jul74; R583208.)
 * Loup-Garou • Manly Banister • short story
 * The Trap • Walter Harwood • short story

July
Volume 39, Issue 11 (issue number also used in May)

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye

 * The Will of Claude Ashur • C. Hall Thompson • novelette
 * The Churchyard Yew • August Derleth [as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603043.)
 * The Damp Man [*Damp Man] • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * Parrington's Pool • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 2May74; R577453.)
 * Interim • Ray Bradbury • vignette (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 11Oct74; R587670.)
 * The Robe of Forgetfulness • Roger S. Vreeland • short story
 * The Dog that Came Back • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
 * The Breeze and I • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story (© Copyright renewed: Mary Elizabeth Counselman Vinyard (A); 4Jun74; R578274.)
 * The Digging at Pistol Key • Carl Jacobi • short story
 * Resurrection • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

September
Volume 39, Issue 12

Cover art by Boris Dolgov

 * Quest of the Gazolba • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
 * Mrs. Pellington Assists • Seabury Quinn • novelette
 * The Damp Man Returns [*Damp Man] • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * The House of Cards [*Thomas Chadwick] • Malcolm M. Ferguson • short story
 * Eena • Manly Banister • short story
 * The Occupant of the Crypt • August Derleth & Mark Schorer • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603044.)
 * The Pale Criminal • C. Hall Thompson • novelette
 * The Girdle of Venus • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Others Said • Katherine Simons • verse
 * The Stranger • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

November
Volume 40, Issue 1

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * The Cheaters • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 21Oct74; R588147.)
 * The Inn by Doomsday Falls • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * The Ghost Walk • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603045.)
 * The Last Adam and Eve • Bert David Ross • short story
 * The Lens • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story (© Copyright renewed: Mary Elizabeth Counselman Vinyard (A); 19Sep74; R585828 AND © Copyright renewed: Mary Elizabeth Counselman (A); 13Mar75; R600223)
 * Portrait in Moonlight • Carl Jacobi • short story (© Copyright renewed: Carl Jacobi (A); 9Jul75; R608919.)
 * Clair De Lune [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Margaret C. Quinn (W); 21Aug75; R611975.)
 * Castaway • A. Bertram Chandler [as George Whitley] • short story
 * Atlantis • Stanton A. Coblentz • verse
 * The Steps in the Field • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

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Weird Tales/1948

January
Volume 40, Issue 2

Cover art by Boris Dolgov

 * Serpent Princess • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
 * The Deadly Ratio • Theodore Sturgeon • novelette
 * And Give Us Yesterday • Seabury Quinn • short story (© Copyright renewed: Margaret C. Quinn (W); 21Aug75; R611976.)
 * The Green Brothers Take Over • Maria Moravsky • short story
 * The Night Train to Lost Valley • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603046.)
 * The Frightened Engineer • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * Grandfather McGraw • Roger S. Vreeland • short story
 * The Lorenzo Watch • Carl Jacobi • short story
 * Moon-Marked • S. Omar Barker • verse
 * Weirdisms • Lee Brown Coye • article

March
Volume 40, Issue 3

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye

25th Anniversary, Issue

 * The Might-Have-Been • Edmond Hamilton • short story
 * Ghost Hunt • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
 * The Leonardo Rondache [*John Thunstone] • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
 * The Coming of M. Alkerhaus • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * The La Prello Paper • Carl Jacobi • short story
 * Something in Wood • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603047.)
 * The October Game • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 3Mar75; R600051.)
 * Catnip • Robert Bloch • short story
 * The Master of the Crabs [*Zothique] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
 * The Professor's Teddy Bear • Theodore Sturgeon • short story
 * The Merrow • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Roman Remains • Algernon Blackwood • short story
 * The House • H. P. Lovecraft [as Ward Phillips] • verse

May
Volume 40, Issue 4

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * City of Lost People • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * Nemesis • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * Clay • C. Hall Thompson • novelette
 * Saunder's Little Friend • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603048.)
 * The Black Ferris • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 16May75; R605484.)
 * Pamola's Caribou • Roger S. Vreeland • short story
 * The Grotto of Cheer • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
 * A Death Crown for Mr. Hapworthy • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * No Silence for Maloeween • Peter Phillips • short story
 * One Foot in the Grave • Dave Grubb • short story
 * Demon Lover • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse
 * The Eldritch One • Pauline Booker • verse

July
Volume 40, Issue 5

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * Twilight of the Gods • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
 * What Beckoning Ghost? • Harold Lawlor • short story (© Copyright renewed: Harold Lawlor (A); 18Sep75; R614191.)
 * Isle of Women • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * The Tsanta in the Parlor • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 24Jun75; R607596.)
 * Abreaction • Theodore Sturgeon • short story
 * Croatan • Malcolm M. Ferguson • short story
 * Dhoh • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
 * The Undead Die • E. Everett Evans & Ray Bradbury • short story

September
Volume 40, Issue 6

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye

 * The Whippoorwills in the Hills • August Derleth • novelette (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630827.)
 * Fever Dream • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 10Dec75; R620400.)
 * The Cracks of Time • Dorothy Quick • short story
 * The Follower • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * The Beasts that Tread the World • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Daughter of Urzun • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
 * The Hidden Talent of Artist Bates • Snowden T. Herrick • short story
 * The Watcher of the Ages • Edmond Hamilton • short story
 * Displaced Person • Eric Frank Russell • vignette
 * Death's Bouquet • Peter Phillips • short story
 * The Devil's Lottery • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The River • Dorothy Quick • verse
 * To the Chimera • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
 * Weirdisms • Lee Brown Coye • article

November
Volume 41, Issue 1

Cover art by John Giunta

 * The Perfect Host • Theodore Sturgeon • novelette
 * The Indian Spirit Guide • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Apr76; R630955.)
 * Blessed Are the Meek • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630828.)
 * Incident at the Galloping Horse • Carl Jacobi • short story
 * Tryst Beyond the Years • Malcolm Kenneth Murchie • short story
 * Such Stuff as Dreams • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * The House on Forest Street • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * The Ponderer • Eric Frank Russell • short story
 * Ghostlings • Dorothy Quick • verse

title: Weird Tales/1948


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Weird Tales/1949

January
Volume 41, Issue 2

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye

 * Four from Jehlam • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * Food for Demons • E. Everett Evans • short story
 * The Thirteenth Floor • Frank Gruber • short story (© Copyright renewed: Lois Gruber (W); 11Dec75; R620387.)
 * Open Season on the—Bottoms • Snowden T. Herrick • short story
 * The Great Stone Death • John D. MacDonald • short story (© Copyright renewed: John D. MacDonald (A); 22Jul76; R637194.)
 * Lover in Scarlet • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Sorcerer's Apprentice • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Apr76; R630956.)
 * The Big Shot • Eric Frank Russell • short story
 * Balu • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630829.)
 * The Bonan of Baladewa • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * Our Fair City • Robert Heinlein • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert A. Heinlein (A); 3Dec75; R619607.)
 * A Curse • Page Cooper • verse
 * The Heads on Easter Island • Leah Bodine Drake • verse
 * Weirdisms • Lee Brown Coye • article

March
Volume 41, Issue 3

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * The Martian and the Moron • Theodore Sturgeon • short story
 * The Strange Island of Doctor Nork • Robert Bloch • short story
 * The Will of Raminchantra • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
 * The Other Santa • Thorp McClusky • short story
 * The Holiday • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * The Testament of Claiborne Boyd [*Laban Shrewsbury] • August Derleth • novelette (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630826.)
 * The Wizard of Bird-in-Hand • Arthur J. Burks • short story

May
Volume 41, Issue 4

Cover art by John Giunta

 * The Damp Man Again [*Damp Man] • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * Matthew South and Company • Carl Jacobi • short story
 * The Door Beyond • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Scrawny One • Anthony Boucher • vignette
 * The Inner Man • Arthur J. Burks • short story
 * Phoebe • Malcolm Kenneth Murchie • short story
 * The Antimacassar • Greye La Spina • short story
 * Vampire Kith and Kin [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * But Not to Dream • John D. MacDonald • short story (© Copyright renewed: John D. MacDonald (A); 3Feb77; R653451.)
 * Kingsridge 214 • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630830.)

July
Volume 41, Issue 5

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * Come and Go Mad • Fredric Brown • novelette
 * From the Vasty Deep • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
 * The Masher • Ewen Whyte • short story
 * The Blue Spectacles • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660483.)
 * How Strange My Love • Russell Branch • short story
 * The Ubiquitous Professor Karr • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
 * In the X-Ray • Fritz Leiber • short story
 * The Previous Incarnation • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * Floral Tribute • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Mar77; R655398.)
 * Dark O' the Moon • Seabury Quinn • short story

September
Volume 41, Issue 6

Cover art by Michael Labonsky

 * One Foot and the Grave • Theodore Sturgeon • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Theodore Sturgeon (A); 17Jun77; R665631.)
 * Country House • Ewen Whyte • short story
 * The Slayers and the Slain • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660484.)
 * The Shot-Tower Ghost • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story (© Copyright renewed: Mary Elizabeth Counselman (A); 7Sep76; R671615.)
 * The Deep Drowse • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * The Rainbow Jade • Gardner F. Fox • short story
 * Blindman's Buff • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Thinker • Malcolm Kenneth Murchie • short story
 * The Woman on the Balcony • Dorothy Quick • short story

November
Volume 42, Issue 1

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * The Underbody • Allison V. Harding • novelette
 * Conscience Maketh Cowards [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Out of the Wrack I Rise • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
 * These Debts Are Yours • Arthur J. Burks • short story
 * Murder Man • Ewen Whyte • short story
 * Twilight Play • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660485.)
 * The Green Window • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * Stranger at Dusk • Malcolm Kenneth Murchie • short story
 * The Barren Field • Yves Thériault • short story
 * Skydrift • Emil Petaja • short story
 * Terror Under Eridu • Malcolm M. Ferguson • short story
 * Demon Lure • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse
 * Forest God • Dorothy Quick • verse

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Weird Tales/1950

January
Volume 42, Issue 2

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * Black Harvest of Moraine • Arthur J. Burks • novelette
 * The Ormolu Clock • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660486.)
 * In that Same Moment • Manly Wade Wellman • short story (© Copyright renewed: Manly Wade Wellman (A); 16Jun77; R666171.)
 * The Smiling Face • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Urbanite • Ewen Whyte • short story
 * The Mysterious Miss Maltra • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
 * The Last Train • Fredric Brown • short story
 * The Mask of Don Alfredo • Mal Bissell • short story
 * Outside of Time • Carroll John Daly • short story
 * The Family • Margaret St. Clair • vignette
 * The Cactus • Mildred Johnson • short story
 * Dark Rosaleen • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Sea King's Daughter • Dorothy Quick • verse
 * The Vision • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

March
Volume 42, Issue 3

Cover art by Lee Browne Coye

 * Home to Mother • Manly Wade Wellman • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Manly Wade Wellman (A); 16Jun77; R666173.)
 * Two Face • Frank Belknap Long • short story
 * The Shadow of Saturn • E. Hoffmann Price • short story
 * The Tree's Wife • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Corn Dance • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 25Oct77; R675073.)
 * Take the Z Train • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * Stay with Me • Shelby Steger • short story
 * The Hungry Ghost • Emil Petaja • short story
 * Dead Man's Shoes • Day Keene • short story
 * Do You Forget, Enchantress? • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

May
Volume 42, Issue 4

Cover art by Boris Dolgov

 * Tell Your Fortune • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); RE0000005722 / 1978-03-06.)
 * Djinn and Bitters • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Round Tower • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
 * The Last Man • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * The Triangle of Terror • William F. Temple • short story
 * The Monkey Spoons • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Last Three Ships • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 12Aug77; R668968.)
 * At the End of the Corridor • Evangeline Walton • short story
 * The Man on B-17 • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660488.)
 * Mr. Hyde—and Seek [*Thomas Chadwick] • Malcolm M. Ferguson • short story
 * Luna Aeternalis • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

July
Volume 42, Issue 5

Cover art by Matt Fox

 * The Weird Tailor • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Oct77; R674059.)
 * Shallajai • Arthur J. Burks • novelette
 * The Rhythm of the Rats • Eric Frank Russell • short story
 * Rebels' Rest • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Woe Water • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
 * Cordona's Skull • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Closing Door • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660489.)
 * Mrs. Hawk • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 7Oct77; R674060 AND © Copyright renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 25Oct77; R675076.)
 * Fly Down Death • Cleve Cartmill • short story
 * The City • H. P. Lovecraft [as Ward Phillips] • verse
 * Pattern • Dorothy Quick • verse

September
Volume 42, Issue 6

Cover art by Bill Wayne

 * Legal Rites • Isaac Asimov & Frederik Pohl [as James MacCreigh] • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Isaac Asimov & James McCreagh, pseud. of Frederik Pohl (A); 8Jul77; R666481.)
 * The Pineys • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
 * The Shadow from the Steeple • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); RE0000005722 / 1978-03-06.)
 * The Mirror • Mildred Johnson • short story
 * Unknown Lady • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * Potts' Triumph • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 27Apr78; RE0000002581.)
 * The Spanish Camera • Carl Jacobi • short story
 * The Three Pools and the Painted Moon • Frank Owen • short story
 * The Insistent Ghost • Emil Petaja • short story
 * Incantation • Page Cooper • verse

November
Volume 43, Issue 1

Cover art by Kelly Freas

 * The Dead Man • Fritz Leiber • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Fritz Leiber (A); 1Dec78; RE0000008850.)
 * The Third Shadow • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
 * The Body-Snatchers [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
 * Grotesquerie • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * Something Old • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Invisible Reweaver • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 6Mar78; RE0000003571.)
 * Blue Peter • Murray Sanford • short story
 * They Worked the Oracle • H. S. W. Chibbett • short story
 * The Haunted • Stanton A. Coblentz • verse

title: Weird Tales/1950


text:
Weird Tales/1951

January
Volume 43, Issue 2

Cover art by Charles A. Kennedy

 * The Hand of Saint Ury • Gordon MacCreagh • novelette
 * The Sixth Gargoyle • David Eynon • short story
 * The Fisherman at Crescent Beach • Allan Masterson • short story
 * Something from Out There • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 27Apr78; RE0000002583.)
 * Professor Kate • Margaret St. Clair • short story
 * The Old Gentleman with the Scarlet Umbrella [*Dr. Shen Fu; *John Steppling] • Frank Owen • short story
 * The Unwanted • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * Scope • Allison V. Harding • short story
 * For a Sea Lover • Dorothy Quick • verse
 * My Timid Soul • Page Cooper • verse

March
Volume 43, Issue 3

Cover art by Bill Wayne

 * A Black Solitude • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
 * The Mississippi Saucer • Frank Belknap Long • short story
 * Old Mr. Wiley • Greye La Spina • short story
 * Each Man Kills • Victoria Glad • short story
 * The White Feather Hex • Don Peterson • short story
 * Dearest • H. Beam Piper • short story
 * The Invaders • Benjamin Ferris • short story
 * Revenant • Leah Bodine Drake • verse
 * Weirditties of Science • Hannes Bok • verse

May
Volume 43, Issue 4

Cover art by Lee Browne Coye

 * Notebook Found in a Deserted House • Robert Bloch • short story
 * The Last Grave of Lill Warran [*John Thunstone] • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
 * The Isle of the Sleeper • Edmond Hamilton • short story
 * The Keeper of the Key [*Laban Shrewsbury] • August Derleth • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027675.)
 * The Cuckoo Clock • David Eynon • short story
 * These Doth the Lord Hate • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • short story
 * The Bradley Vampire • Roger M. Thomas • short story
 * Star of Joy • Robert Forrest • verse
 * Swan-Maiden • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

July
Volume 43, Issue 5

Cover art by Charles A. Kennedy

 * Flame Birds of Angala • E. Everett Evans • short story
 * Chinook • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Skull of Barnaby Shattuck • Merle Constiner • novella
 * A Knocking in the Wall • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027676.)
 * The Little Red Owl • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 13Nov78; RE0000038566.)
 * Date in the City Room • Talbot Johns • short story
 * The Priceless Polescu • David Eynon • short story
 * Amok! • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Haunted Ghost • Clarence Edwin Flynn • verse
 * Three Men • Dorothy Quick • verse
 * Weirdisms • Lee Brown Coye • article

September
Volume 43, Issue 6

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye

 * Gimlet Eye Gunn • H. Bedford-Jones • novelette
 * Rapport • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Ring of Bastet [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Camel Vengeance • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
 * The Metamorphosis of Earth • Clark Ashton Smith • novelette
 * Church in the Jungles • Arthur J. Burks • short story
 * A Square of Canvas • Anthony M. Rud • short story
 * Weird Crossword • Charles A. Kennedy • article
 * Sleepers • Dorothy Quick • verse

November
Volume 44, Issue 1

Cover art by Kelly Freas

 * Hideaway • Everil Worrell • novelette
 * The Brides of Baxter Creek • C. J. Barr • short story
 * Dagon • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
 * The Bird • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 13Nov78; RE0000038566.)
 * Hector • August Derleth [as Michael West] • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027679.)
 * The Night They Crashed the Party • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 1979-11-01; RE0000036952.)
 * Fling the Dust Aside • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * Pigeons from Hell • Robert E. Howard • novelette
 * Was It Murder? • H. C. McNeile • short story (© Copyright Renewed as part of Short Stories, 25 July 1933; Blanchard Press, Inc.; 25Jan61; R270002-270023.)
 * When the Night Wind Howls [*Gavagan's Bar] • L.Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt • short story (© Copyright Renewed: L. Sprague DeCamp (A); 1979-04-27; RE0000026974.)
 * Hallowe'en Candle • Yetza Gillespie • verse
 * Unexpiated • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse

title: Weird Tales/1951


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Weird Tales/1952

January
Volume 44, Issue 2

Cover art by Jon Arfstrom

 * The Black Island [*Laban Shrewsbury] • August Derleth • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027680.)
 * Lucy Comes to Stay • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 1979-11-01; RE0000036952.)
 * The Seamstress • E. Everett Evans • short story
 * The Guard of Honor • J. Paul Suter • short story
 * Lovers' Meeting • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * Cat's Cradle • E. W. Tomlinson • short story
 * The Iron Hand of Katzaveere • David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon] • short story
 * Ooze • Anthony M. Rud • novelette
 * Cat-Eyes • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse
 * Not Altogether Asleep • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
 * Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

March
Volume 44, Issue 3

Cover art by Joseph Eberle

 * Morne Perdu • Alice Drayton Farnham • novelette
 * The Monkey Ship • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
 * The Mask • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
 * The Scarred Soul • Seabury Quinn • short story
 * The Prism • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Horror at Red Hook • H. P. Lovecraft • novelette
 * The Place of Desolation • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027673.)
 * Jungle Beasts • William P. Barron • short story
 * The Bride of Death • Joseph Howard Krucher • verse
 * O Golden-Tongued Romance • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

May
Volume 44, Issue 4

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

 * The Lamia in the Penthouse • Thorp McClusky • novelette
 * Rhythmic Formula • Arthur J. Burks • short story
 * A Bit of Moss • Suzanne Pickett • short story
 * The Eighth Green Man • G. G. Pendarves • short story
 * She Wore a Black Rose • Frederick Sanders • short story
 * Dark Laughter • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
 * The Fifth Candle • Cyril Mand • short story
 * The Little Tree • C. F. Birdsall • short story
 * The Night Road • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062838.)
 * The Devil of Maniara • Douglas Leach • short story (© Copyright Renewed as part of Short Stories, February 25, 1933; Blanchard Press, Inc. (PCW); 25Jan6l; R270002-270023.)
 * Father's Vampire • Alvin Taylor & Len J. Moffatt • short story
 * Double Haunt • Joseph Howard Krucher • article
 * Ghost Port • Pauline Booker • verse
 * Out of Space • Dorothy Quick • verse

July
Volume 44, Issue 5

Cover art by Jon Arfstrom

 * Hell's Bells • Eric Frank Russell [as Duncan H. Munro] • short story
 * Which's Witch? • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Emperor's Letter • David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon] • short story
 * Elmer Bittersnitt and the Three Bears • Harry Botsford • short story
 * There Was Soot on the Cat • Suzanne Pickett • short story
 * The Green Parrot • Joseph Payne Brennan • short story
 * The Temple of Serpents • Paul Ernst • short story
 * The Plaid • Abrach • short story
 * Live Evil • Emil Petaja • short story
 * The Lakes of Nai Loodie • Donald F. Vieweg • short story
 * Alethia Phrikodes • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
 * Black Candles • Yetza Gillespie • verse

September
Volume 44, Issue 6

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

 * Island of the Hands • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 2May1980; RE0000057714.)
 * Table Number Sixteen • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
 * One Fantastic Day • Frederick Sanders • short story
 * A Habit Out of History • David Eynon • short story
 * Where to, Please? [*Gavagan's Bar] • L.Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt • short story
 * The Phantom Express • H. Thompson Rich • vignette
 * Sa'antha • E. Everett Evans • short story
 * The Lost Path • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062845.)
 * The Sin-Eater • G. G. Pendarves • novelette [Reprint from December 1938]
 * The Archive • Henry T. Simmons • verse
 * Hallowe'en in a Suburb [aka "In a Suburb"] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
 * The Singing Shadow • Yetza Gillespie • verse

November
Volume 44, Issue 7

Cover art by Anthony Di Giannurio

 * Black as the Night • Alice Farnham • short story
 * The Unicorn • Frank Owen • short story
 * Astra • Arthur J. Burks • short story
 * The Artist and the Door • Dorothy Quick • short story
 * The Japanese Tea Set • Francis J. O'Neil • short story
 * Fermentation • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
 * The Chapel of Mystic Horror [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette [Reprint from December 1928]
 * The Chain • Hamilton Craigie • short story [Reprint from March 1923]
 * Weird Crossword • Charles A. Kennedy • article
 * The Mermaid • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

title: Weird Tales/1952