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Vaux, John Joachim, 247 n.

Vend?me, Duc de, 160.

Venice, 25, 29, 51-54, 61, 69-71, 76, 89, 90, 99, 112, 114, 118, 159, 168, 224.

Vere, John de, thirteenth Earl of Oxford, 355 n.

Vergil, Polydore, 77, 111, 112, 182.

Vinci, Leonardo da, 140.

Vinea, Peter de, 329.

W.

Wales, 315, 364 and note.

-- Prince of. See Arthur, Prince;

also Henry VIII.

-- Statute of, 365-367.

Wallop, Sir John, 402, 410.

Walsingham, Sir Edmund, Lieutenant of the Tower, 272.

-- Sir Francis, 38.

Warbeck, Perkin, 10, 11, 18, 19.

Warham, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, marries Henry VIII. to Catherine of Aragon, and crowns them, 46, 48;

is diplomatist, Lord Chancellor and Archbishop, 48, 92, 258;

is Chancellor of Oxford University, 49;

is present at the burning of Luther's books, 125;

debates the legality of Henry's marriage, 174;

his views on papal authority, 269;

compares Henry VIII. with Henry II., 271;

but admits that Ira principis mors est, 270;

death, 296;

other references to, 120, 248, 286.

Warwick, Earl of. See Edward.

Waterford, 11.

Welz, 99.

West, Nicholas, Bishop of Ely, 110, 122, 338.

Westminster, 2, 278, 421, 424.

-- Abbey, 5, 44, 46, 175, 300, 395, 426.

-- Bishopric of, 401.

Weston, Sir Francis, 344.

Whitehall Palace, 239, 421.

Wight, Isle of, 375.

William the Conqueror, 3.

-- III., 186.

Wills and Uses, Statute of, 262, 289, 293, 336.

Wilton, 242.

Wiltshire, Earls of. See Boleyn, Thomas;

Stafford, Henry.

Winchcombe, Abbot of, 234, 235.

Winchester, 14, 198, 247, 254, 255, 294, 318.

-- Bishops of. See Beaufort, Henry;

Fox, Richard;

Gardiner, Stephen.

Windsor, 156, 157, 167, 361, 421, 425, 426.

-- Sir Andrew, 119.

Wingfield, Sir Richard, 166.

-- Sir Robert, 91.

Woking, 421.

Wolf, John, 259 n.

Wolman, Dr. Richard, 198, 199.

Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal Archbishop of York, his birth, 38;

becomes Henry's almoner and member of council, 56;

his industry and many preferments, 177 and note;

is made cardinal, 77 and note;

is made legate, 97;

his domestic policy, peacefulness of, 119;

his distrust of parliaments, 120, 235, 258;

his partnership with the King, 121, 122, 129-132;

his neglect of the navy, 127;

his demands for money, 164, 165;

his results contrasted with Henry's, 244;

his foreign policy, 56, 62, 77, 78, 89, 98, 108-110, 137 and note, 144-147, 160, 166, 167;

opposition to his foreign policy, 92;

results of his foreign policy, 163, 164, 224, 245, 246;

his alliances with Charles V., 148-152, 156, 157;

his alliances with Francis I., 141, 142, 195;

conducts the conference at Calais, 144-147;

is a candidate for the Papacy, 146, 154, 155, 230;

his projects for ecclesiastical reform, 268, 269, 338;

suppresses monasteries, 338;

his educational endowments, 243, 338;

his wealth, 97, 115, 209;

his pensions, 115, 116;

his arrogance, 109 sqq.;

his jealousy of others, 82, 83, 112-114, 182 and note;

his mistress and children, 117, 118;

his impatient temper, 132, 133;

his genius for diplomacy, 135, 136;

his character by Giustinian, 118;

his unpopularity, 203;

his first steps towards the divorce, 198, 200;

visits France in connection with the divorce, 201, 202;

his commission with Campeggio to try, and the trial of, the divorce, 214, 221-223;

his fall precipitated by his failure to obtain the divorce, 154, 204, 223, 239;

his fall involves the ruin of the Church, 211, 237, 238;

his real attitude towards the divorce, 205, 206;

his attainder passed in the House of Lords, but rejected in the House of Commons, 246, 247;

devotes his last days to his archiepiscopal duties, 247;

accused of treason and arrested, 247;

his remarks on the fickleness of royal favour; and his death, 248;

other references to, 66, 81, 94, 119, 123, 138, 141, 142, 177, 235, 242, 248 n, 251, 272, 273, 278, 350, 399, 401, 410, 426, 439.

Woodstock, 177.

Woodville, Elizabeth, 15.

Woolwich, 126.

Worcester, 254 n.

-- Bishopric of, 318.

-- Bishops of. See Ghinucci, Girolamo;

Giglis, Sylvester de;

Latimer, Hugh;

Pace, Richard.

-- Cathedral, 14.

-- Earl of. See Somerset, Charles.

Worsley, Sir James, 259 n.

Wotton, Dr. Nicholas, 384.

Wriothesley, Sir Thomas, afterwards Earl of Southampton, 390, 394, 402, 411, 423.

Wulford, Ralf, 11.

Würtemberg, 311.

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 188 and note, 189, 402.

Wycliffe, John, 232, 270, 274.

Wynter, Thomas, 118.