V.

Vaux, John Joachim, 247 _n_. Vendome, 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. Wuertemberg, 311. Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 188 and _note_, 189, 402. Wycliffe, John, 232, 270, 274. Wynter, Thomas, 118.