Sheridan and the Irish Parliament, iii. 377, n. 2;
  Sheridan’s pension, i. 386, n. 1. 
WICKEDNESS, no abilities required for it, v. 217. 
WICKHAM, iv. 192. 
WIDOWS, ii. 77. 
WIFE,
  ‘Artemisias,’ ii. 76;
  buying lace for one, ii. 352;
  choosing fools for wives, v. 226;
  death of one, iii. 419;
  disputes with them, v. 226, n. 1;
  learned, none the worse for being, ii. 76, 128;
  negligent of pleasing, ii. 56;
  Overbury’s lines, ii. 76;
  praise from one, i. 210;
  religious, should be, ii. 76;
  singing publicly for hire, ii. 369;
  story of an unfaithful wife, v. 389;
    of one who made a secret purse, iv. 319;
  studious or argumentative, iv. 32;
  superiority of talents, ii. 56. 
WIGAN, iii. 135, n. 1. 
WIGHT, Mr., a Scotch advocate, iii. 212, n. 2. 
WIGHTMAN, General, v. 140, n. 3. 
WIGS,
  bag-wigs now worn by physicians, iii. 288;
  tye-wigs, ib., n. 4;
  flowing bob-wig, iii. 325, n. 3;
  powdered, iii. 254: 
  See under JOHNSON, wigs. 
WILCOX, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2.
Wildair, Sir Harry, ii. 465. 
WILKES, Dr., i. 148. 
WILKES, Friar, ii. 399. 
WILKES, John,
  Alderman, elected, iii. 460;
  Aylesbury, member for, iii. 73;
  Beauclerk’s library, iv. 105;
  Boswell
    apologises for his intimacy with him, iii. 64, n. 3;
      defends him, v. 339, n. 5;
      relishes his excellence, in. 64;
    brings Johnson and him together, iii. 64;
      proposes a third meeting, iv. 224, n. 2;
    companion in Italy, ii. 11;
    dines with him, ii. 378, n. 1, 436, n. 1;
    enlivened by his sallies, i. 395;
    receives a letter from ‘Lord Mayor Wilkes,’ ii. 381, n. 1;
    writes to him, iv. 224, n. 2;
  Burke’s pun on him, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3;
    want of taste, iv. 104;
  City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1;
  City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2;
  Courts of Justice afraid of him, iii. 46, n. 5;
  Dedication of Mortimer, i. 353, n. 1;
  dress, iii. 68; iv. 101, n. 2;
  English tenacious of forms, iv. 104;
  Fall of Mortimer, iii. 78, n, 4;
  False Alarm, answer to the, iv. 30;
  Garrick’s want of a friend, iii. 386;
    wit, like Chesterfield’s, iii. 69;
  general warrants, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3, 73;
  George III praises his good breeding, iii. 68, n. 4;
  goat, the, not the kid, iv. 107, n. 2;
  Gordon Riots, iii. 430;
  ‘grave, sober, decent,’ iii. 77;
  Heroic Epistle, attacked in the, v. 186;
  Hogarth, caricatured by, v. 186;
  Horace, a contested passage in, iii. 73;
  House of Commons afraid of him, iv. 140, n. 1;
    expunges the resolution for his expulsion, ii. 112: 
    See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION;
    how to speak at its bar, iii. 224;
  Inverary, visits, iii. 73;
  ‘Jack Ketch,’ iii. 66;