f ten and its secret proceedings, 460, 461;
exclusion of the nobles from trade, 461 _note_ y;
Venetian form of government not entitled to high admiration, 462, 463
and _note_;
territorial acquisitions of Venice, 464;
prophecy of the doge Mocenigo, 465, 466 and _note_;
Venetian conquests under Carmagnola, 466;
wars of the republic with Mahomet II., 493, 495.

Verdun, treaty of, i. 16;
its results, 17 and _notes_.

Vere, favouritism of Richard II. towards, iii. 66;
his funeral, 74.

Verona, seized by Francesco da Carrara, i. 464.

Vienna, AEneas Sylvius's florid description of, iii. 345 _note_ u.

Villani (John) falls a victim to the plague, i. 57 _note_.

Villeins and villenage: conditions of villeins, i. 199;
consequences of their marriage with free persons, 200, and 201
_note_ b;
privileges acquired by them, 201, 202 and _notes_;
their obligations, 331;
their legal position in England, 333;
villenage never established in Leon and Castile, ii. 6;
question of its existence among the Anglo-Saxons, 276;
dependence of the villein on his lord, iii. 171;
condition of his property and children, 172 and _note_ b;
legal distinctions, 172 and _notes_;
difficulties besetting the abolition of villenage, 173;
gradual softening of its features, 174-176;
merger of villeins into hired labourers, 177;
effects of the anti-poll-tax insurrection, 181;
disappearance of villenage, 181, 182;
elucidatory _notes_ on the subject, 260-264.

Virgin, absurd miracles ascribed to the, iii. 300 _note_.

Visconti and Torriani families, rivalry of the, i. 409, 410;
triumph of the Visconti, 410;
their power and unpopularity, 411;
their marriages with royalty, 412 and _note_ e;
tyranny of Bernabo Visconti, 439;
Giovanni Visconti's brutality, _ib._;
his assassination, 466;
Filippo Visconti's accession, _ib._;
his ingratitude to Carmagnola, _ib._;
his mistrust of Sforza, 482;
his alliance with Alfonso, 492;
quarrels of the family with the popes, ii. 235.

Visigoths, portions of the Roman provinces possessed by the, i. 1;
conduct of their earlier rulers towards the catholics, 3 _note_ f;
their mode of dividing conquered provinces, 146;
their laws, how compiled, 151, 152 _note_ z;
difference between the Frank monarchy and theirs, ii. 1, 2.

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