Vienne, John de, ii. 349 Village, the English, i. 10, 11; its organization after the Norman Conquest, 322 Villars, Marshal, vii. 134 Villenage unknown in Kent, ii. 320; demand for its abolition in the eastern counties, 321; dies out, 333; iii. 65 Villeneuve, Admiral, viii. 172 Villeins, i. 133, 321-323; their relations with the lord, 323-325; rise into yeomen, ii. 240, 241; attempts to check their enfranchisement, 256, 257, 266, 267, 335; revolt of, _see_ Peasant Revolt Villeroy, Duke of, vii. 125, 126 Villiers, George, v. 207-210. _See_ Buckingham Vimiera, battle of, viii. 187 Vinegar Hill, battle of, viii. 130 Virginia discovered, iv. 345; settled, v. 307, 308; heads resistance to the Stamp Act, vii. 330; remonstrates against taxation, viii. 14; adheres to England, 20 Vitoria, battle of, viii. 202 Voltaire, his visit to England, vii. 152 Volunteers, the Irish, viii. 37 Wace, i. 174, 247 Wake, Baldwin, ii. 84, 86 Wakefield, battle of, iii. 78 Walcourt, skirmish at, vii. 50 Walcheren, English expedition to, viii. 188 Walden, Roger, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 371 Wales, sources of its early history, i. 7; its struggle with Mercia, ii. 46; subject to the West Saxon kings, _ib._; Harold's campaign in, i. 153, ii. 47; William I.'s, i. 189, ii. 47; William II.'s, i. 198, ii. 48; Henry I.'s dealings with, 48; Henry II.'s campaigns in, i. 232; ii. 53, 54; Gerald de Barri's account of, i. 245, 274; John's campaigns in, ii. 54, 55; national revival in, 49-58; Edward's first campaign in, 59; outbreaks in, 65, 66; Edward I.'s annexations in, 109; conquest of, 119-121; incorporated with England, 121; revolts, 142, 143; iii. 9-12; students from, at Oxford, i. 291; Council of, v. 168. _See_ Welsh Walker, Obadiah, vii. 25 Wall, the Roman, i. 30 Wallace, William, ii. 167-169, 171 Wallenstein, v. 274 Waller, Edmund, vi. 325 Waller, Sir William, defeated at Lansdowne Hill and Roundway Down, vi. 6; his reception by the Parliament, 13; joins Essex, 18, 19; defeated at Cropredy bridge, 22; retires, 35 Wallingford, treaty of, i. 227 Wallington, Nehemiah, v. 72, 73, 94 Wallis, Dr. John, vi. 132 Wallis, Captain, vii. 277 Walloons, fugitive Protestant, in England, iv. 51, 58