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 Woodville, Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV., iii. 124, 167, 168, 171, 176 Woodville, Sir Richard, iii. 124. _See_ Rivers Woodward, John, vi. 167 Wool, grants of, by Parliament to the king, ii. 230; taxation of, 107, 164, 298; trade in, under Edward I., 107; under Edward III., 226; monopolized by him, 229; in the eighteenth century, viii. 53 Woolsack, the Lord Chancellor's, ii. 226 Worcester, rising at, under Harthacnut, i. 148; threatened by Owen Glyndwr, iii. 18 Worcester, Thomas Percy, earl of, iii. 13, 14