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(2) D’OSSAT and DU PERRON, afterwards cardinals, were whipped by Clement VIII. for Henri IV. of France.— Fuller: Church History, ii. 342 (1655).

(3) MUNGO MURRAY stood for Charles 1.

(4) RAPHAEL was flogged for the son of the marquis de Leganez; but, not seeing the justice of this arrangement, he ran away.—Lesage: Gil Blas, v. 1 (1724).

Whisker, the pony of Mr. Garland, Abel Cottage, Finchley.

There approached towards him a little, clattering jingling, four-wheeled chaise, drawn by a little, obstinate- looking, rough-coated pony, and driven by a little, fat, placid-faced old gentleman. Beside the little old gentleman sat a little old lady, plump and placid like himself, and the pony was coming along at his own pace, and doing exactly as he pleased with the whole concern. If the old gentleman remonstrated by shaking the reins, the pony replied by shaking his head. It was plain that the utmost the pony would consent to do was to go in his own way,…after his own fashion, or not at all.—Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop, xiv. (1840).

Whiskerandos (Don Ferolo), the sentimental lover of Tilburina.—Sheridan: The Critic, ii. 1 (1779).

Whisky Insurrection (The), a popular name given, in the United States, to an outbreak in Western Pennsylvania, in 1794, resulting from an attempt to enforce an excise law passed in 1791, imposing duties on domestic distilled liquors. It spread into the border counties, but was finally suppressed by general Henry Lee, governor of Virginia, with an armed force.

Whist (Father of the game of), Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769).