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

Worcester, John Tiptoft, earl of, iii. 162

Worcester, William of, ii. 179; iii. 40

Worcestershire, salt springs in, ii. 107

Wordsworth, William, viii. 135

Worms,
diet at, iii. 254;
Tyndale at, 260

Worsted trade, iv. 279

Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor, iv. 46.
_See_ Southampton

Wulfhere, king of Mercia, i. 78, 85-87

Wulfstan, St., bishop of Worcester, i. 192, 250

Wulfstan explores the coast of Esthonia, i. 113

Wurmser, General, viii. 123

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the elder, iv. 42

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the younger, iv. 82, 84, 85

Wycherly, William, vi. 157, 163

Wyclif, John, ii. 275-277;
his treatise _De Dominio Divino_, 278, 279;
commissioner for negotiations with the Pope, 303;
his denunciation of Church property, 308, 309;
summoned to trial for heresy, 309, 310;
his "Simple Priests," 317;
denies Transubstantiation, 337;
condemned at Oxford, _ib._;