Part 107

Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, v. 255, 353, 371

Williams, Roger, v. 312, 313

Willis, Thomas, vi. 166

Willoughby, Hugh, iv. 282; v. 9

Wiltshire, rising in, iii. 67

Wiltshire, Thomas Boleyn, Earl of, iii. 291. See Boleyn

Wiltshire, William Scrope, Earl of, iii. 18

Winceby, skirmish at, vi. 33

Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, opposes Edward I., ii. 163, 165, 170; head of the "Ordainers," 188

Winchester surrendered to William the Conqueror, i. 165; welcomes Stephen, 215; battle at, 220; pillaged by the younger Simon de Montfort, ii. 82; marriage of Philip and Mary at, iv. 86; Ælfred's abbey at, i. 113; Wykeham's college at, ii. 307; the royal hoard at, 180, 188; Parliament at, ii. 66, 80, 82

Winchester, William Paulet, first marquis of, iv. 65

Winchester, John Paulet, fifth marquis of, vi. 42

Winchester, Charles Paulet, sixth marquis of, vii. 37

Windebank, Secretary of State, v. 351

Windham, William, viii. 104, 156, 171

Windsor Castle seized by John, i. 261; surrendered by Edward to the barons, ii. 67; rebuilt by Edward III., 252

Winter, Admiral De, viii. 127

Winthrop, John, v. 311, 313

Winwæd, battle of, i. 72, 73

Wippedsfleet, battle of, i. 33

Wishart, George, iv. 112

Witchcraft, belief in, v. 105; statute against, 105, 106; Puritan action against, 106, 107

Witenagemot, the, i. 19, 132, 134, 135

Wither, George, v. 303

Witt, John de, vi. 242, 249, 268, 269

Wolsey, Thomas, his rise, iii. 230; policy, 231; greatness, 236; his industry, 237; legate, 238; negotiations with Francis and Charles, 240, 243; hopes of the Papacy, 240, 241, 249; revives benevolences, 244, 251; demands a forced loan, 244; struggle with the Commons, 245; with the clergy, 246; his power shaken, 253; attitude towards Lutheranism, 261, 263; founds Cardinal College, 202, 263; action in the king's divorce, 269, 270; embassy to France, 271; negotiations with the Pope, ib., 272; his unpopularity, 273; commissioner for the divorce, 272; his fall, 279, 280; suppresses monasteries, 311; arrested, 292; death, 293; Cavendish's Life of, 83

Woodstock, Edmund, earl of, ii. 293

Woodstock, Thomas of, ii. 293. See Gloucester