WHITTINGTON’S ALMSHOUSE, Sir Richard Whittington several times Mayor of this city, about the year 1413, founded a college on the north side of the church of St. Michael Pater Noster, for a master, four fellows, clerks, choristers, _&c._ together with an almshouse for thirteen poor men; one of whom to be tutor, with a salary of 1_s._ 4_d._ per week, and the twelve others 1_s._ 2_d._ each, with necessary provisions. The college was dissolved by act of parliament in the reign of Edward VI. but the almshouse situated upon College hill still remains under the direction of the mercers company; who, besides a handsome room for the use of each of the pensioners, allow them 3_s._ 10_d._ per week, and the men every third year coats and breeches, and the women, who are now also admitted, have gowns and petticoats. _Stow’s Survey._ WHORE’S NEST, Harrow corner.║ WICKHAM’S _court_, Great Wild street.† WIDEGATE _alley_, Bishopsgate street without. WIGAN’S _court_, Church lane, Limehouse.† WIGAN’S _key_, Thames street.† WIGHTMAN’S _alley_, St. John’s street, Smithfield.† WIGMORE _row_, Marybone fields. WIGMORE _street_, Wellbeck street, near Marybone fields. WILDAY’S _wharf_, Cock hill, Ratcliff.† WILD _court_, Great Wild street.† WILDERNESS _lane_, Salisbury court, Fleet street. WILDERNESS _row_, Chelsea. WILD-GOOSE _alley_, Thames street.* WILD’S _passage_, Drury lane.† WILD’S _rents_. Long lane Southwark.† WILLIAMS’S _court_, New Gravel lane.† _Dr._ WILLIAMS’S LIBRARY, in Redcross street, Cripplegate, for the use of the dissenting ministers, of the presbyterian, independant and baptist persuasions, was founded by Daniel Williams, D. D. a presbyterian divine, who in 1711, among other considerable legacies, bequeathed his valuable collection of books and manuscripts for the above purpose, with a handsome salary for a librarian and a housekeeper, in pursuance of his will a neat building was erected in Redcross street, with a genteel apartment for the librarian, _&c._ and a spacious room capable of containing 40,000 volumes. The original library has been augmented by many thousand volumes presented to it. This library is under the direction of twenty-three trustees, fourteen of whom are ministers, and nine of them lay gentlemen; but all of the presbyterian denomination: with a secretary and a steward. In this library is a register, wherein parents may enter the birth of their children. This is of the greater use to the dissenters, as few or none of the dissenting meeting houses have any register of christenings, and as a great body of them do not allow of the baptising of infants. Here also are some curiosities, as an Egyptian mummy, and a glass bason, which held the water wherewith Queen Elizabeth was baptized. This last is kept in a bag, whereon is fixed a paper that shews how this bason came into the possession of the managers of the library. WILLIAMS’S _rents_, Millbank, Westminster Horseferry.†