Chapter Weller to West Indian of W by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Wessel (Peder), a tailor’s apprentice, who rose to the rank of vice-admira l of Denmark, in the reign of Christian V. He was called Tordenskiold, corrupted into Tordenskiol (the “Thunder Shield”), and was killed in a duel.

North Sea! a glimpse of Wessel rent
Thy murky sky.…
From Denmark thunders Tordenskiol;
Let each to heaven commend his soul,
And fly.
   —Longfellow: King Christian [V.].

Wessex, Devonshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire, and their adjacents. Ivor son of Cadwallader, and Ini or Hiner his nephew, were sent to England by Cadwallader when he was in Rome, to “govern the remnant of the Britons.”

As the generals, [he]
His nephew Ivor chose, and Hiner for his pheer;
Two most undaunted sp’rits these valiant Britons were,
The first who Wessex won.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, ix. (1612).

(The kingdom of Wessex was founded in 495 by Cerdic and Cynric, and Ini was king of Wessex from 688 to 726. Instead of being a British king who ousted the Saxons, he was of the royal line of Cerdic, and came regularly to the succession.)

West Indian (The), a comedy by R. Cumberland (1771). Mr. Belcour, the adopted son of a wealthy Jamaica merchant, on the death of his adopted father came to London, to the house of Mr. Stockwell, once the clerk of Belcour, senior. This clerk had secretly married Belcour’s daughter, and when her boy was born it was “laid as a foundling at her father’s door.” Old Belcour brought the child up as his own son, and at death “bequeathed to him his whole estate.” The young man then came to London as the guest of Mr. Stockwell, the rich merchant, and accidentally encountered in the street Miss Louisa Dudley, with whom he fell in love. Louisa, with her father captain Dudley, and her brother Charles, all in the greatest poverty, were lodging with a Mr. Fulmer, a small bookseller. Belcour gets introduced, and, after the usual mistakes and hairbreadth escapes, makes her his wife.