Wilson, Sir Thomas (1), LL.D., a statesman and divine of the reign of queen Elizabeth, was born at Stro- by, in Lincolnshire, about 1524. He was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, where he grad- uated in 1546. He took orders in the Church of England; became tutor to the two sons of Charles Brandon, duke
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of Suffolk, by Mary, ex-queen of France, but both of bis pupils soon died; withdrew to tlie Coiitinent on the ac- cession of queen Mary, in 1553; was imprisoned by the Inquisition at Rome on account of heresies alleged to be contained in his Logic and Rhetoric, and was put to the torture ; obtained his liberty at the death of pope Paul IV in 1555, in consequence of a tire which caused the populace to break oi^en the doors and allow the prisoners to escape; returned to England and became private secretary to (pieen Elizabeth in 1558; was ap- pointed one of the masters of requests, and master of St. Katherine's Hospital, near the Tower; went as envoy to the Netherlands in 1570; became secretary of state and colleague of Sir Thomas Walsingham in 1577 ; was made dean of Durham in 1579; and died in London, June 10, 1581. He [jublishcd a Latin Biography of his two jnipilg, Henry and Charles Brandon (labl) -.— The Rule of Reason, Conteinyny the A rte of Logique set forth in Knglishe (eod.) : — The Arte of Rhetor ike, for the Use of all Stiche as are Studious of Eloquence (1553) : — The Three Orations of Demosthenes, etc. (1570) : — and A Discourse uppon Usurye by Waye of Dialogue and Ora- dons, etc. (1572). See Strype, Annals; and Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.
Wilson, Thomas (2). D.D., LL.D., a Church of England divine, was born at Burton, Cheshire, Dec. 20, 1663. Little is known of his early life. He was educated at Chester and at Trini- ty College, Dublin, quitting the university in 1686, and receiving an appointment to Wiuwick, Lancashire. In 1692 he was or- dained priest, and became domestic chap- lain to the earl of Derby, and tutor to his son; and in 1796 entered upon his duties as bishop of Sodor and JIan, in which he remained faithful till death, 1755. Bishop Wilson was remarkable for his humility, his conscientiousness, and his devotedness to Christian duty. He was a man of praver and deep piety. See Christian Observer, 1820, p. 569," 713, 785; Church of England Magazine, 1836, p. 245; and Christian Remembrancer, 1829, p. 729.
Wilson, Thomas (3), D.D., an Eng- lish divine, son of bishop Tliomas, was born at Kirk Michael, in the Isle of Man, Aug. 24, 1703. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated A.M., Dec. 16, 1727; became prebendary of Westminster in 1743; was fort\--six years rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook ; and died at Alford House, Bath, April 15, 1784. He pub- lished. Distilled Liquors the Bane of the Nation: — Revieto of the Project for Building a New Square at Westminster (1757): — The Ornaments of the Church- es Considered, etc. (1710). See Chalmers, Biog, Diet. s. V.
"Wimpina, Konrad (really Koch ; for he adopted the name Wimpina from the town of Wimpfen, his fa- ther's native place), a scholastic theologian and defend- er of Tetzel, the indulgence peddler, was born at Buchen, or Buchheim, in the Oden forest, A.D. 1459 or 1460. He was educated at Leipsic, and held a professorship in that university. In 1502 he became licentiate, and in 1503 doctor of theology. Envy charged him with hold- ing heterodox views at this time, but he succeeded in repelling the charge before the archbishop of Magde- burg. In 1505 he, in his turn, assailed Martin Polichius with a charge of heterodoxy, because that writer had characterized scholastic speculations as useless, and had recommended philological studies as possessing a higher value for theology. Wimpina w'as associated with the founding of the University of Wittenberg, and imme- diately afterwards was made professor of theology and rector in the University of Erankfort-on-the-Oder. On Luther's promulgation of his theses against indulgences, Wimpina assumed the defence of Tetzel. Two dispu-
tations in Tetzel's favor appeared in 1517, which were generally credited to Wimpina. and which were chiefly remarkable as postulating a distinction between puni- tive and reformatory punishments in connection with the theory of indulgences. In 1530 Wimpina attended the Diet at Augsburg, in the character of associate au- thor of the Confutation of the .4 ugsburg Confession, and also as a member of the commission appointed to effect a reconciliation of parties with respect to jioints in dis- pute. He died, either May 17 or June 16, 1531, in the monaster}' of Amorbach.
Literature. — Gieseler, Kirchengesch. vol. iii ; Loscher, Reform. Acta und Documenta (Leips. 1720), i, 86 sq. ; Unschuldige Nachrichten (ibid. 1716); De Wette, Lu- ther s Briefe, etc. (Berlin, 1825), vol. i ; Seckendorff, .4 xis- fiihrl, [list, d. Lutherthums (Leips. 1714) ; Scist and Olpe, Tetzel u, Luther,etc,{i8b3) [Kom.Cath.]; Herzog, Teea/- Encyklop, s. v.
Wimple is the rendering, in the A. V. at Isa. iii, 22, of the Heb. nr;2I3'2, ;«i'(/)«c/i«cA (from nSO, to spread out ; Sept. translates undistinguishably ; Vulg. lintea- menta), which is translated "veil" in liuth iii, 15, but it signifies rather a kind of shawl or mantle (Schroder, LJe Vestitu Mulier. Ilebr. c. 16). The old English and now obsolete term means a kind of hood or veil in use