Watts, J. 23 (1753): 282-285 (minor alterations to verses by Samuel Cobb).
Watts, Susanna (miscellaneous writer and translator; bapt. 1768; d. 1842). 69-i (1799): 61-62.
Weaver, John (antiquary and poet; 1576-1632). 58-ii (1788): 600.
Webb, Foster. 9 (1739): 655; 10 (1740): 88, 193, 256, 311-312, 312, 462, 463; 11 (1741): 46; 12 (1742): 46; 19 (1749): 86.
Webster, Alexander (minister in Edinburgh and poet; 1707-84). 19 (1749): 518.
Webster, Rev. William (clergyman and journalist; 1689-1758). 3 (1733): 174 [?].
Wedderburn, General David (soldier; killed in combat in India, 1773). 57-ii (1787): 626 [?].
Weekes, A. 38 (1738): 135.
Weekes, James Eyre, of Dublin. 14 (1744): 387.
Welchman, Rev. John, of Tamworth (clergyman; b. ca. 1696). 11 (1741): 601.
Weller, -----. 29 (1759): 483.
Wells, David (antiquary; 1733-90). 54-ii (1784): 696; 55-i (1785): 167.
Welsted, Leonard (poet; bapt. 1688; d. 1747). 60-ii (1790): 936-937.
Wesley, Rev. Charles (clergyman and hymn writer; 1707-88). 55-i (1785): 247 [? (or Rev. John Wesley?)]; 61-i (1791): 284 [? (or Rev. John Wesley?)].
Wesley, Rev. John (founder of Methodism; 1703-91). 6 (1736): 740 (alterations of verses by Mehetabel Wesley Wright); 55-i (1785): 247 [? (or Rev. Charles Wesley?)]; 61-i (1791): 284 [? (or Rev. Charles Wesley?)].
Wesley, Rev. Samuel, the Younger (schoolmaster and poet; 1690/91-1739). 3 (1733): 375-376; 4 (1734): 382, 448 (2); 20 (1750): 275 [? (or ----- Fitzgerald?)]; 55-i (1785): 365.
West, Gilbert (miscellaneous writer; 1703-56). 16 (1746): 665.
West, Jane (novelist and miscellaneous writer; 1758-1852). 61-i (1791): 68-69, 69; 63-ii (1793): 1134, 1134-1135; 65-i (1795): 422 (2); 69-i (1799): 149 (2); 70-i (1800): 370 (2), 465, 465-466, 466; 70-ii (1800): 665 (3).
West, John, Viscount Cantelupe and 1st Earl De La Warr (general; 1693-1766). 22 (1752): 376.
West, John, 2nd Earl De La Warr (general and Lord Chamberlain; 1729-77). 36 (1766): 188.
West, Richard (poet; 1716-42). 45 (1775): 291.
Westby, Rev. Simon (schoolmaster; d. 1820). 47 (1777): 38-39 [?].
Weston, Joseph (of Solihull; organist). 54-ii (1784): 778; 58-i (1788): 444; 58-ii (1788): 823, 915, 1008, 1106; 60-i (1790): 160-163; 61-ii (1791): 660 (2), 760; 62-ii (1792): 654 (4); 63-i (1793): 559-560; 63-ii (1793): 941-942.
Weston, Rev. Stephen (antiquary and orientalist; 1747-1830). 57-i (1787): 32; 57-ii (1787): 626 [?]; 60-ii (1790): 1128 [?]; 62-i (1792): 464 [?], 560 [?]; 65-i (1795): 240 [?]; 66-i (1796): 512 [?].
Whalley, Dr. William (physician?; d. ca. 1739?). 63-ii (1793): 906.
Whalley, Rev. Thomas Sedgwick (poet; 1746-1828). 52 (1782): 133; 55-i (1785): 133; 56-i (1786): 154-155.
Wharton, Philip, Duke of Wharton (profligate, president of the Hell-Fire Club, and Jacobite outlaw; 1698-1731). 61-ii (1791): 721-722.
Wheatley, Phillis (slave poet in Boston, Massachusetts; ca. 1753-84). 43 (1773): 456.
Wheeler, Rev. Benjamin (Professor of Poetry and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford; ca. 1733-83). 43 (1773): 343.
White, Joseph (orientalist; Laudian Professor of Arabic and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford; 1745-1814). 49 (1779): 606.
White, Rev. Gilbert (naturalist of Selborne; 1720-93). 53-ii (1783): 958, 958-959, 959; 54-i (1784): 287; 60-i (1790): 26.
Whitehead, Paul (satirist; 1710-74). 3 (1733): 317-318; 9 (1739): 266; 16 (1746): 266 (2); 17 (1747): 292; 21 (1751): 179; 28 (1758): 539.
Whitehead, William (poet laureate; 1715-85). 11 (1741): 48; 13 (1743): 157; 14 (1744): 100; 17 (1747): 444; 20 (1750): 133-134, 134; 21 (1751): 568; 24 (1754): 236-237, 237 (2), 430; 27 (1757): 84; 28 (1758): 538; 29 (1759): 32, 227, 539; 30 (1760): 38; 31 (1761): 38, 278; 32 (1762): 39, 85-86, 86, 139, 286; 33 (1763): 37, 308; 35 (1765): 39-40, 287; 36 (1766): 285, 429; 37 (1767): 39, 472; 38 (1768): 39-40, 294; 41 (1771): 39, 279; 42 (1772): 38, 287, 588; 43 (1773): 39, 293; 44 (1774): 37, 279; 45 (1775): 301-302; 46 (1776): 36, 279; 47 (1777): 38, 286; 48 (1778): 39, 278; 49 (1779): 37, 317; 50 (1780): 37, 291; 51 (1781): 36, 283; 52 (1782): 36, 302; 53-i (1783): 62, 519; 54-i (1784): 45, 453; 55-i (1785): 53.
Whitehouse, Rev. John (poet; b. 1755 or 1756; d. 1824). 48 (1778): 278-279 [?], 384 [?], 488 [?], 534-535 [?], 598 [?]; 49 (1779): 152 [?], 263-264 [?], 318, 320, 368, 416, 462 (2), 509-510, 558.
Whittell, T. (dated from the Royal Exchange; perhaps the same person as Thomas Whittle [sic] of Newcastle, q.v.). 23 (1753): 484.
Whittle, Thomas (of Newcastle; perhaps the same person as T. Whittell [q.v.], who dated from the Royal Exchange). 5 (1735): 326.
Whyte, Samuel (schoolmaster and poet; 1733-1811). 39 (1769): 159.
Wigston, W. V. 6 (1736): 158 (2).
Wilde, Herbert (b. ca. 1706). 41 (1771): 88 [?].
Wilkes, John (Radical journalist and Lord Mayor of London; 1727-97). 52 (1782): 495; 61-ii (1791): 952; 68-i (1798): 124.
Wilkes, Rev. Richard (antiquarian; 1691-1760). 58-i (1788): 65.
Williams, Anna (poet and member of Samuel Johnson’s circle; 1706-83). 24 (1754): 40; 36 (1766): 187.
Williams, Edward [Iolo Morgannwg] (Welsh bard; 1746-1826). 55-ii (1785): 937; 59-ii (1789): 1035-1036; 62-ii (1792): 957 (2); 64-ii (1794): 981.
Williams, Helen Maria (poet; 1762-1827). 65-ii (1795): 688, 1040; 66-i (1796): 66.
Williams, John, of Maidstone (tailor; d. 1795). 65-ii (1795): 1114.
Williams, John Hanbury (of Colebrook, Monmouthshire; ca. 1750-1819). 63-ii (1793): 846-847.
Williams, John [pseud. “Anthony Pasquin”] (poet and miscellaneous writer; 1761-1818). 56-ii (1786): 791; 59-i (1789): 72-73, 73; 61-i (1791): 470; 62-i (1792): 168; 63-ii (1793): 654, 1203.
Williams, Robert [Robyn Erch; Robert ap Gwilym Ddu] (Welsh bard; 1766-1850). 62-i (1792): 462; 62-ii (1792): 791 (2).
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury (satirist and diplomat; 1708-59). 12 (1742): 438, 441-442; 13 (1743): 491; 19 (1749): 232; 23 (1753): 437; 56-i (1786): 157.
Williams, William, of Ivy Tower, Pembrokes. (b. 1736; antiquary). 60-i (1790): 354, 451; 60-ii (1790): 844, 1034 (2); 61-ii (1791): 663.
Willis, Browne (antiquary; 1682-1760). 30 (1760): 290.
Willis, Rev. William Augustus (clergyman; d. 1789). 42 (1772): 88, 384; 47 (1777): 390-391; 49 (1779): 95; 62-i (1792): 167; 64-i (1794): 462; 67-ii (1797): 869-870.
Willyams, Rev. Cooper (topographical illustrator and clergyman; 1762-1816). 61-i (1791): 368 [? (or Captain Powell Snell?)].
Wilmot, John, 2nd Earl of Rochester (libertine and writer of obscene verse; 1647-80). 38 (1768): 439 [? (or Jonathan Swift?)]; 54-i (1784): 219.
Wilson, Gavin (Scottish shoemaker and Masonic poet). 63-i (1793): 310, 310-311.
Winn, Captain Isaac. 25 (1755): 277.
Winn, J. L. (of Spanish Town, Jamaica). 59-i (1789): 351.
Winstanley, John (poet; 1677?-1750). 2 (1732): 718; 3 (1733): 601 [?]; 7 (1737): 375 [1st 375] [?].
Winstone, William Hayward. 70-i (1800): 373.
Wise, Rev. Joseph (clergyman and poet; fl. 1766-79). 36 (1766): 482, 588.
Wodhull, Michael (book collector and translator; 1740-1816). 56-ii (1786): 985; 60-i (1790): 312, 357 [?]; 62-ii (1792): 1039; 64-i (1794): 68; 64-ii (1794): 975.
Woffington, Margaret (Irish actress; 1720?-60). 22 (1752): 39.
Wolcot, Dr. John [“Peter Pindar”] (physician and poet; 1738-1819). 56-ii (1786): 604; 58-ii (1788): 733 [?]; 61-ii (1791): 950-951; 63-i (1793): 560.
Wood, Rev. John (clergyman; 1781-1833). 69-i (1799): 60-61.
Woodfall, Henry, II (printer of the Public Advertiser; 1713-69). 5 (1735): 153.
Woodhouse, James (shoemaker and poet; 1735-1820). 39 (1769): 552.
Woodmason, Rev. Charles (planter and clergyman in South Carolina; ca. 1720-ca. 1776). 23 (1753): 240-241, 337-338; 24 (1754): 88, 381.
Woodward, Henry (actor; 1714-77). 32 (1762): 494.
Woolston, Rev. William (of Adderbury, Oxon.; schoolmaster and collector of coins; d. 1817). 69-ii (1799): 975.
Woolston, Thomas (of Adderbury, Oxon.; father of Rev. William Woolston). 59-i (1789): 163 (3), 258, 358; 59-ii (1789): 650, 842-843; 60-i (1790): 451; 60-ii (1790): 1036; 62-i (1792): 111-112; 63-ii (1793): 1178; 64-ii (1794): 1036 (2); 70-i (1800): 209-211.
Wotton, Sir Henry (diplomat, poet, and provost of Eton; 1568-1639). 35 (1765): 231; 43 (1773): 344.
Woty, William (civil servant, poet, and playwright; bapt. 1732; d. 1791). 28 (1758): 434, 539-540; 29 (1759): 30, 32, 132 (2), 179 (2), 334, 485; 30 (1760): 146, 242, 384, 534; 35 (1765): 382; 39 (1769): 104; 43 (1773): 243-244; 47 (1777): 140.
Wrangham, Rev. Francis (classicist and miscellaneous writer; 1769-1842). 62-ii (1792): 940 [?] (2), 941; 70-ii (1800): 980-981.
Wray, Daniel (antiquary; 1701-83). 49 (1779): 150; 54-i (1784): 48; 70-i (1800): 113.
Wright, Dr. William (physician and botanist; 1735-1819). 31 (1761): 135.
Wright, George. 54-ii (1784): 616 (2).
Wright, Mehetabel Wesley (poet; sister of John and Charles Wesley; 1697-1751). 3 (1733): 542 (2); 6 (1736): 740 (with alterations by Rev. John Wesley).
Wynter, Dr. John (physician; b. 1699). 31 (1761): 376.
Yalden, Rev. Thomas (poet; 1670-1736). 49 (1779): 511 (3).
Yate, Richard, of Chively, Salop (farmer and theological writer; bapt. 1698; d. 1780). 5 (1735): 45 (3), 211 (2), 216 [1st 216], 328 (2), 426-430, 496, 673 (2); 6 (1736): 222, 419-420, 614-615; 7 (1737): 629; 8 (1738): 374, 595; 9 (1739): 41; 10 (1740): 195, 197, 617, 618; 11 (1741): 439, 663 (3); 13 (1743): 157; 15 (1745): 215, 608; 17 (1747): 490; 18 (1748): 564 [?]; 23 (1753): 485.
Yearsley, Ann (the “Bristol milk-woman” poet; 1756-1806). 55-i (1785): 305.
Yeo, Richard (engraver of medals and engraver to the Royal Mint; 1720-79). 2 (1732): 769-770.
Yersin, J. 15 (1745): 439 (5); 16 (1746): 104 [?] (3).
Yonge, Sir William (politician; ca. 1693-1755). 6 (1736): 103; 19 (1749): 85.
Yorke, Charles (Lord Chancellor; 1722-70). 40 (1770): 38, 39 (2).
Yorke, Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (Lord Chancellor; 1690-1764). 31 (1761): 183.
Yorke, Philip, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (Privy Councillor, High Steward of Cambridge University, and editor of political collections; 1720-90). 52 (1782): 494 [?].
Young, J. 12 (1742): 327.
Young, Lady (daughter of Dr. John Taylor). 42 (1772): 487.
Young, Maria Julia (poet). 64-i (1794): 69, 457, 558; 64-ii (1794): 937-938.
Young, Rev. Edward (poet; 1683-1765). 2 (1732): 1024; 5 (1735): 216 [1st 216]; 14 (1744): 100-101; 18 (1748): 327; 23 (1753): 140; 32 (1762): 234; 47 (1777): 548; 62-i (1792): 166; 68-ii (1798): 728; 70-ii (1800): 608 (2).
Yriarte, Juan de (Spanish writer; 1702-71). 60-i (1790): 74.
Zappi, Faustina Maratti (poet; ca. 1680-1745). 61-ii (1791): 1141.
Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von (Moravian pastor and hymn writer; 1700-60). 20 (1750): 503 (6).