WILLIAM, a political writer, who was employed by Sir Robert Walpole to write the Free Briton in defence of his administration, for which, by the report of the secret committee, he is said to have received £10,997, 6s. 8d. He died in 1741, at the age of 26.

ARNAUD DE METRVEILLI, or MEREUIL, a poet of Provence, who wrote a book entitled Las Recastenas de sa Contesse, and a collection of poems and sonnets. Petrarch mentions him in his Triumph of Love. He is supposed to have died about the end of the twelfth century.