XX. All questions at every board and committee are decided by the votes of the majority of the trustees present, and of the proxies for the ladies who are trustees, such proxy being given in writing to some person who is a trustee, and being entered in a book to be kept for that purpose by the secretary. And the minutes of each board and committee are to be signed by the respective chairmen. XXI. It having been resolved that all subscriptions to this hospital are payable in advance, upon the respective quarter days for the year then to come; letters, signed by the chairman of every quarterly general board, are to be sent to each subscriber whose subscription shall then appear to have been three months due, according to the foregoing resolution, to remind him of such arrear, and to request the payment of it. _From the orders published by the general board._ WESTMINSTER _market_, a very convenient and handsome market in King street. WESTMINSTER _school_, or Queen’s college, Westminster, was founded by Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1590, for the education of forty boys, who are taught classical learning, and in the best manner prepared for the university. Besides whom, a great number of the sons of the nobility and gentry are educated there, which has rendered it one of the greatest schools in the kingdom. Instead of one master, and an usher, as at first; there are now an upper and under master, and five ushers, who have about 400 young gentlemen under their tuition. _Maitland._ WESTMORELAND _court_, 1. Bartholomew close, so called from the mansion of the Earls of Westmoreland, formerly situated there: 2. Noble street, Foster lane. WESTON’S _rents_, Houndsditch.† WEST’S _gardens_, New Gravel lane.† WEST SIDE _alley_, near Tooley street, Southwark. WEST SMITHFIELD. See the article SMITHFIELD. The epithet West is never used but to distinguish it from East Smithfield. WEST _street_, 1. Soho: 2. Spitalfields market. WEYBRIDGE, a village in Surry, four miles south-west of Hampton Court, took its name from a bridge formerly erected here over the river Wey. About this village are several fine seats, particularly those of the Earls of Portmore and Lincoln. The former was beautified by the Countess of Dorchester, in the reign of King James II. and has a fine walk of acacia trees, which when first planted were esteemed great curiosities. Among the advantages of the other, is a noble terrace walk, raised so high above the neighbouring ground, as to afford a fine prospect of the country and the river. For some farther account of both these seats. See OATLANDS and HAM FARM. WHALEBONE _court_, 1. Bow lane, Cheapside: 2. Little Old Bailey: 3. Lothbury: 4. Throgmorton street. WHARTON’S _court_, 1. Church-yard alley.† 2. Holbourn.† 3. Lambeth or Lambert hill, Thames street.† WHARTON’S _rents_, New Gravel lane.† WHEATSHEAF _alley_, 1. Barnaby street, Southwark.* 2. Lambeth.* 3. Michael’s lane, Thames street.* WHEEL _yard_, Stony lane.