Waterloo, battle of, viii. 208-211 Watling Street, i. 120 Watt, James, viii. 58 _Waverley, Annals of_, i. 273 Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, iii. 66 Weald, iron-mines in the, ii. 107 Wearmouth, Benedict Biscop's abbey at, i. 91, 92; plundered by northmen, 101 Weavers, gild of, i. 317; Flemish, in England under Edward III., ii. 226 Wedmore, Peace of, i. 107 Weights, uniformity of, enacted by Great Charter, i. 352 Welles, Sir Robert, iii. 135 Wellesley, Sir Arthur, his campaigns in Spain and Portugal, viii. 186, 188. _See_ Wellington Wellesley, Richard, Marquis (_see_ Mornington), viii. 140; his devotion to Pitt, 71; words on Pitt's death, 174; Foreign Secretary, 189 Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first Viscount and Duke of (_see_ Wellesley), his campaigns in Spain and Portugal, viii. 190, 191, 199, 200, 202; enters France, 202; campaign in Belgium, 207-211 Welsh, the, defeated by Cenwealh, i. 87; by Offa, 97; league with Scots and Cumbrians against Æthelstan, 119; rise against Æthelred II., 139; subdued by Harold, 153; ii. 47; rise against William I., i. 167; against John, 333, 334; ii. 55; national revival, 49-58; ravage Shropshire, iii. 19; Oxford students join Owen Glyndwr, 11; North, tributary to Æthelstan, i. 119, 120; West, become vassals of Æthelstan, i. 120; driven from Exeter, _ib._ _See_ Britons, Wales Welwood's _Memoirs_, vi. 158 Wendover, Roger of, i. 273; ii. 43 Wentworth, Paul, iv. 238 Wentworth, Peter, v. 56 Wentworth, Thomas, member for Yorkshire, v. 195, 260, 282-284; policy and character, 285-287; Deputy in Ireland, 290; his rule there, 290-292, 364, 365; returns, 338. _See_ Strafford Wenzel of Bohemia, king of the Romans, ii. 348 Wesley, Charles, vii. 207 Wesley, John, vii. 207-210 Wessex, its power under Ceawlin and Cuthwulf, i. 56; fall, _ib._; attacked by Eadwine, 63; subdued, 64; greatness under Ine, 89, 90; civil strife in, 90; subject to Mercia, _ib._, 91; rises against Æthelbald, 96; anarchy in, 97; greatness under Ecgberht, 102; attacked by northmen, 103, 105, 106; revival under Ælfred, 107, 112, 113; submits to Swein, 143; to Cnut, _ib._; its Golden Dragon standard, 96, 163; earldom of, 146. _See_ West Saxons Westfold, Harald of, i. 128 West Indian Company, vi. 223 West Indies, English conquests in, vii. 307