Wilday’s wharf, Cock hill, Ratcliff.†
Wild court, Great Wild street.†
Wilderness lane, Salisbury court, Fleet street.
Wildernessrow, Chelsea.
Wild-goose alley, Thames street.*
Wild’s passage, Drury lane.†
Wild’s rents. Long lane Southwark.†
Williams’s court, New Gravel lane.†
Dr. Williams’s Library, in Redcross street, Cripplegate, for the use of the dissenting ministers, of the presbyterian, independant and baptist persuasions, was founded by Daniel Williams, D. D. a presbyterian divine, who in 1711, among other considerable legacies, bequeathed his valuable collection of books and manuscripts for the above purpose, with a handsome salary for a librarian and a housekeeper, in pursuance of his will a neat building was erected in Redcross street, with a genteel apartment for the librarian, &c. and a spacious room capable of containing 40,000 volumes. The original library has been augmented by many thousand volumes presented to it.
This library is under the direction of twenty-three trustees, fourteen of whom are ministers, and nine of them lay gentlemen; but all of the presbyterian denomination: with a secretary and a steward.