Wales, reduced to a province, 214; pays tribute to Athelstan, 134.
Walkelin, bishop of Winchester, 302.
Walker, bishop of Durham, murdered, 303.
Walwin, nephew of Arthur, his sepulchre, 315.
Waltheof, earl, account of, 386; his death, ibid.
Warewell, or Whorwell, 160; monastery of, ib.
Warwick, Henry earl of, 441.
Welsh, subdued by Edward the Elder, 123; by Harold, 256; by Henry I, 435.
Werburga, patroness of Chester, 72, 236, 243.
Werefrith, bishop of Worcester, 118.
Westminster Abbey consecrated, 255.
West-Saxon kings, geneology of, 109.
Wight, Isle of, given to Withgar, 218; converted to Christianity, 71.
Wilfrid, bishop of Hexham, expelled his see, 51.
William I, king of England, 253; his early history, 259; his conquests, 268; is crowned, 281; summary of his wars, 282; his issue, 305; munificence to monasteries, 308; death, 310.
William II, king of England, his birth and education, 327; contentions with his
nobles, 328; seizes castles of Tunbridge and Pevensey, 319; contests and treaty with his brother Robert, 330; his expedition against Wales and Scotland, 333; character, 334, 346; calamitous events of his reign, 342; singular tokens and manner of his death, 344.
William of Carilef, bishop of Durham, 304.
William, earl of Arches, 263.
William Fitz-Osberne, account of, 289.
William, son of Henry I, 454.
Winchelcumb, dreadful tempest at, 342.
Winchester, church at, 21, 39; Canute's liberality to, 198.
Windows, glass, first makers of in England, 54.
Wistan, St. account of, 239.
Witch, Berkeley, account of, 230.
Witches, two at Rome, account of, 180.
Withlaf, king of Mercia, 88, 96.
Withred, king of Kent, 16.
Woden, account of, 8.
Wolves, tribute of, paid to Edgar, 158.
Woodstock Park, menagerie at, 443.
Worcester, insurrection at, 207.
Wulnod, destroys Ethelred's fleet, 169.
Wulnod, son of Godwin, 222.
Wulstan, precentor of Winchester, 149; his book on the harmony of sounds, ib.
Wulstan, archbishop of York, confined by Edred, 145.
Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, account of, 303.
Wulfhere, king of Mercia, 71, 72.
York, city of, burnt, 112; besieged, 133; destroyed, 282.
York, see of, controversy with Canterbury, 319; with Worcester and Dorchester, 323.
Youths, from England, exposed to sale at Rome, 42.
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