sick (705), and had a vision in which the angel Gabriel revealed that the prayers of Wilfrid's pupils had ob- tained for him restoration to health, the recovery of part of his diocese, and four years of life. The king refused, on his arrival in England, to obej- the papal order, but died soon afterwards, and his successor, Osred, restored the see. Wilfrid died, " after four years," Oct. 12, 709, having held the bishopric during forty-four years. His remains were interred at Ripon, but ultimately at Can- terburj'. His importance, aside from his missionary character, lies in his association with Theodore of Can- terbury as principal supporter of the papal authority ami Romish customs in England. The following writ- ings are attributed to him, but without full proof of au- thenticity : De Catholico Cdebrando Paschuli Ritu : — De Rer/ulis Monachornm, etc. See Heddius, Vita Wil- fridi ; Bede, Tlisf. Eccles. iii-v, ed. Stevenson ; Roger de Wendover, Chronica sive Flores IJistoi-iarum, vol. i, ed. Coxe; Lingard, Tlisf. of England, 5tli ed. i, 122 sq. ; William of Malmesbury, Be Gest. Pontif. iii, 152 ; id. De Gcst.Reg. i, 3; Godwin, De Prtesul. Anrjl. p. 654; Her- zog, Real-EncyMop. s. v.
2. Bishop OF Bf<;veri,y and archbishop of York {Wil- fridus Junior), a contemporary of Bede {Hist. Eccles. v, 5, 23 ; see also Roger de Wendover, ut sup. i, 213, 227 ; and Sachsenchrotiik) .
3. Bishop OF Worcester at the beginning of the 8th centurj'. See Anr/lia Sac7-a, i,470; Roger de Wen- dover, ut sup. i, 205 ; Bede, Hist. Eccles. v, 23.
4. Archbishop of Canterbury, 806 et sq., died 829 or 832. See Roger de Wendover, ut sup. i, 270 ; also Sachsenchronik.
Wilkie, WiLLiAjr, D.D., a Scotch clergyman and poet, was born at Echlin, Linlithgowshire, in 1721. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he had entered at the age of thirteen, but was compelled to leave that institution before completing the course on account of the death of his father; turned his attention to farming, where he continued his studies, and took orders in the Church of Scotland ; published The Epi- ffoniad, a Poem in Nine Boohs, in 1757, which gained for him the title of "the Scottish Homer;" printed a new edition of this work, accompanied by A Dream in the Manner of Spenser, in 1759 ; was chosen professor of natural philosophy at St. Andrew's the same year; pub- lished a volume of Moral Fables in verse in 17()8 ; and died Oct. 10, 1772.
"Wilkins, David, D.D., a learned English divine, was born in 168,5. He was appointed keeper of the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth in 1715; spent the next three years in drawing up a catalogue of that col- lection ; became rector of Mongham - Parva, Kent, in 1716, and of Great Chart and Hadleigh in 1719; was constituted chaplain to the archbishop and collated to the rectories of Monks-Ely and Becking; was appointed joint commissary of Bocking; became prebendary of Canterbur}' in 1720 ; was collated to the archdeaconry of Suffolk in May, 1724 ; and died Sept. G, 1745. His prin- cipal publications are, N'oi-uni Testamentum ^Jgi/ptiacum, vnlgo Copticurn, etc. (1716): — Leges Anglo-Saxonicw Ecclesiasticm et Civiles, etc. (1721): — Quinque Libi-i Moysis Prophetoi in Lingua JEgyptiaca, etc. (1731) : — and Concilia Magna Britannice et Hibeniim (1730-37). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.
Wilkins, Isaac, D.D., a clergyman of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church, was born at Withywood, in the island of Jamaica, Dec. 17, 1742. His father, Martin Wilkins, became a judge in Jamaica, and was an emi- nent lawyer. Isaac was an only son, and when about six years of age was brought to New York city to ob- tain better educational facilities than the West Indies afforded. In 1760 he graduated at Columbia College. What he saved from his father's estate in Jamaica enabled him to purchase Castle Hill Neck, in West- chester County. After his graduation he resided for some time upon this farm, and occupied himself in cul-
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tivating it. In 1772 he was sent to the Colonial Legis- lature, and until April 18, 177.J. he was an active mem- ber of that body, ready in debate and honest in the ser- vice of his country. He was the reputed author of sev- eral political pamphlets which were obnoxious to the Whigs, and eventually it was necessary for him to leave America ; and published, before sailing for England, an address to his countrymen, in which he endeavored to vindicate himself as a lover of his country. He re- mained in England about a year, in which time it is assertetl that he endeavored to accommodate the dispute between (!reat Britain and the colonies. Having re- turned to his family at Castle Hill, which had been laid waste, he was compelled to retreat with them to Long Island. At Newtown and Flatbush he made his resi- dence until peace was declared. His farm had not been conliscated; so he sold it in 1784, took his family to Shcll)urne, N. S., purchaseil property- there, and again became a farmer. Soon after he was a member of the Assembly in that province. In 1798 he returned to New York and prepared for the ministn,-, and took charge of St. Peter's Clrurch at Westchester, of which, as soon as he was ordainetl deacon, he became rector. On Jan. 14, 1801, he was ordained priest. The British government, in consideration of his services during the Kevohition, bestowed upon him an annuity of £120 for life, and for thirty-one years he was rector of St. Peter's. He died in Westchester, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1830. His ser- mons were concise and forcible; his delivery was nat- ural and effective. As a rule, his discourses were short and impressive. A number of poetic effusions of some merit are extant of which he was the author. See Sprague, .1 muds of the Amer. Pulpit, v, 462.