Large pears. Cavendish describes Wolsey as eating _roasted wardens_ at the moment in which he was seized with his fatal illness. "It came to pass at a certain season sitting at dinner in his own chamber, having at his boards end that same day, as he divers times had to accompany him, a mess of the Earls' gentlemen and chaplains, and eating of _roasted wardens_ at the end of his dinner, before whom I stood at the table, dressing of those wardens for him, beholding of him I perceived his colour often to change," &c. Ed. _Singer_, 1825, vol. i. p. 300. In a poem written by Lydgate temp. Henry VI. he thus alludes to _Wardens_. "Eke othere frutes, whiche that more common be, Quenyngges, peches, costardes, and _wardens_." Illustrations to a _Chronicle of London_, 4to. 1827, p. 245. Warden Lord, [of the Cinque Ports] 267. Washing the Chapel, stuff for, 93. ---- for, 234. Waters [probably sweet] brought, 5. ---- sweet, brought, 5, 15. ---- bailiff of London, 37. Watermen, to the king's, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, _bis_, 12, 22, 24, 25, 29, 45, _bis_, 46, 47, _bis_, 54, 55, _sæpe_, 59, _bis_, 78, 79, 87, 90, 96, _sæpe_, 112, 114, 118, 119, 120, 122, 127, _bis_, 128, _bis_, 134, 136, 139, _bis_, 140, 142, _bis_, 164, 171, 174, 175, 177, 179, _sæpe_, 180, 182, _sæpe_, 192, _bis_, 195, 201, _ter_, 208, 211, 215, 217, 219, _bis_, 228, 229, 251, _bis_, 252, 258, 260, _bis_, 262, _bis_, 277, 278, 279, 286, 291. See BARGE and BOAT to which a set of watermen was of course indispensable. Waterman, to a, 89. ----, paid to a strange, 118. Wax, for hard and fine to make Quariars, 116. See QUARIARS. Wax, a tree of, 234. Perhaps a taper or torch of large dimensions, standing upright like the stem of a tree, and thus opposed to quariars.--M. Webbe Henry, 97, 112, 168. Neither of these entries afford any information as to who this person was. Weeding, paid for, 39, 50, 84, 94, 124, 206, 207. Wellesborne Master, 97, 151, 210. Probably Sir John Wellesborne, called in the _Ordinances of the Household_, 17th Henry VIII. "Sir John Welshbone, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber." On one occasion he borrowed of the King, 60_l._ which was to be repaid in three years, and on another he received a gift of 23_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ "in reward." Welshe ----, the Queen's servant, 183. West John, one of the guard, 115, 131. Westby Thomas, one of the King's Chaplains, 7, 24. Westcote John, keeper of the park of Windsor, 13, 54, 140, 174. ---- ----, 275. Westminster, 128, 142, 175, 277, 279, 281. ----, Abbot of, 148. ----, the clock-maker at, 58. ----, for the King's buildings at, 228. ---- Place, 234. Westmoreland the Earl of, 5. Ralph Neville, K.G. He succeeded to that dignity in 1523, and died in 1549.