Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, 55; received Richard at Oxford, 129, 146 Weavers, Flemish, 112 Welch, John, _alias_ Hastings, loyal to the last, 252 Welles, Lord, slain at Towton, 33; buried at Methley, 34; son forgiven, 36; traitor, 132 _n._; married Princess Cicely, 86 _n._, 271 Wenlock, Sir John, at Towton, 23, 30, 32; created Lord Wenlock, 35; joined Margaret of Anjou, 70; slain in the battle of Tewkesbury, 74, 76 Wensleydale, 82 Wentford, Sir Philip, 120 Wentworth, Sir Eustace, slain at Wakefield, 15 Westminster, John Esteney, Abbot of, 114; coronation of Edward IV., 35; coronation of Richard III., 126, 127; sanctuary, 91, 136, 241; tower built by King Richard at, 161 Westminster school, its antiquity, 116 Westmoreland, Earl of, 109, 143; cousin to the king, 110; not at Towton, a mistake of Leland followed by Hall, 29 _n._ Weymouth, 69 'White Hart' Inn, in Southwark, 112, 122 White Moors at Bosworth, 153 Whittingham, Sir R., slain at Tewkesbury, 76 Wigmore Castle, 3 Willoughby, Sir Christopher, created K.B., 147 Willoughby, Sir Robert, 149; sent to Sheriff Hutton to seize Edward and Elizabeth, 248 Wilson, John, 120 Wiltshire, Earl of, at Wakefield, 14; at Towton, 24, 31; beheaded, 34; brother restored, 36; at Richard's coronation bearing the queen's crown, 127, 143 Winchester, Bishop of, _see_ Waynflete _and_ Fox Winchester School, 116 Windsor, St. George's Chapel, stall plate of Richard III., 38; Edward IV. at, 70; present from the wardrobe to the college, 111; Edward IV. buried at, 86; Henry VI. buried, 139; nearly finished by Richard III., 139, 161; portrait of Richard III. at, 40 _n._, 124 Wodehouse, Sir Edward, knighted after Tewkesbury, 77 Wolesley, Ralph, Baron of the Exchequer, 145 Wolferstone, Sir Roger, at Towton for Edward, 23 Woodville, Elizabeth, _see_ Elizabeth Woodville faction, their enrichment, 41; bribed by Louis XI., 82; their designs, 88; caused the death of Clarence, 88, 95; their conspiracy defeated, 88-91, 131; marriages into noble families, 88. _See_ Rivers Woodville, Lionel, Bishop of Salisbury, at Richard's coronation, 126, 235 Wool and cloth fair, 112 Woolley Edge, 13 Worcester, 77, 128 Worcester, Bishop of, _see_ Alcock Worcester, Tiptoft Earl of, author and statesman, 115; Caxton's lament at his death, 115, 116 Wykeham, William of, founder of Winchester School, 116 York, flight of Henry VI. from, after Towton, 34, 58; King Edward at, 34; Prince Richard's beneficial connection with, 84; King Richard at, 130; loyalty of the citizens, 130; sent 80 men to reinforce the king at Bosworth, 151; mourned the death of Richard, 159 York, Archbishop of, _see_ Nevill, Rotherham.