his letters, i. 183.

Vulcob, M. de, French ambassador to the Emperor of Germany, ii. 550.

W.

Waldenses. See Vaudois.

Walsingham, Francis, on the peace of Saint Germain, ii. 368;
receives the assurances of the king as to his intention to observe
the peace, ii. 371;
on the attempts to dissuade Anjou from marrying Queen
Elizabeth, ii. 379;
on the English marriage and the anxiety of the Huguenots, ii. 382;
his enthusiastic description of Count Louis of Nassau, ii. 384, note;
urges Queen Elizabeth to advocate the invitation of Coligny to
court, ii. 388, note;
he sets forth the critical nature of the situation, ii. 416;
he mentions rumors of Elizabeth's desertion of her allies, ii. 420;
he praises Coligny's magnanimity, ii. 421;
his reply to Catharine de' Medici respecting Coligny's
loyalty, ii. 495, 547;
on the forced conversions of Navarre and Conde, ii. 499;
his conversation with the queen mother as to the maintenance of the
edict of pacification, ii. 547, 548.

War, the first civil, or religious, April, 1562, to
March 19, 1563, ii. 34-115;
its results, ii. 118;
it prevents France from becoming Huguenot, ii. 119;
the second civil war, Sept., 1567, to March 23, 1568, ii. 203-234;
the third civil war, Sept., 1568, to Aug. 8, 1570, ii. 274-366;
the fourth civil war, Dec., 1572, to July, 1573, ii. 582-593;
meagre results of, ii. 594;
beginning of the fifth civil war, 1574, ii. 622.

Westmoreland, Earl of, his rebellion, ii. 358.

White, Henry, Dr., the remark respecting Cardinal Lorraine which he
ascribes to Beza, i. 529;
cf. also ii. 46, 252, 427, note, 527, note.

Whittingham, Wm., Dean of Durham, ii. 292, note.

Winter, severity of the, 1568-1569, ii. 286, 297.

Winter, Admiral, carries money, cannon, and ammunition to La
Rochelle, ii. 296.

Wolmar, Melchior, i. 43;
a teacher of Calvin, i. 199.

Wolrad, Count of Mansfeld, succeeds the Duke of Deux-Ponts in command
of the German auxiliaries of the Huguenots, ii. 318, 335, 364.

Worship, Protestant places of, assigned at the most inconvenient
distances, ii. 163, 164, note, 432, note.

Wotton, Dr., his view of the court of Henry II. of France, i. 261.

Wringle, Pierre de, or Van, the printer of Serrieres, near
Neufchatel, i. 233.

Wuertemberg, Chri