Vaux, William (son of George and Eliza Vaux) 264–5, 356, 359, 360
Vaux, Sir William (1437–71) 9
Vavasour, Thomas 178, 343
Verney, Sir Richard 304, 305, 305n, 306, 309
Verstegan, Richard 198n, 199, 207
Waad, William 245, 246, 331, 333
Walpole, Henry, S.J. 206, 208, 211, 339
Walpole, Michael, S.J. 211, 356
Walsingham, Sir Francis xix, xx, 24; Ridolfi Plot and 34; ‘St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre’, witnesses 35–6; Cobham writes to on Catholic connections of Vaux family 92–3, 96; fears Catholic zeal in France 96; James Hill writes to on Vaux household 101–2; on ‘Leicester’s Commonwealth’ 104n; ‘Bond of Association’ and 106–7; informed of Hoxton fund meeting 110–11; Babington Plot and 125, 126, 127, 198; Maliverey Catilyn and 139; death 174, 190–1; endorses idea of English Catholic colony in North America 273
Ward, Margaret 4, 154–5
Ward, Mary 150, 150n, 316n, 354
Watson, Thomas 258n
Watson, William 211–14, 212n, 215, 218n, 277–8, 335
Wells, Swithin 199n
Wenman, Agnes, Lady 261, 265, 266, 267, 286, 301–2, 313
Wenman, Sir Richard 266, 394, 405
Westmorland, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of 27, 228
Weston, William, alias Edmunds, S.J. 109, 109n, 112, 113, 116, 117, 118, 121, 124, 128, 130–1, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 149–50, 217
Wheeler, Humfrey 128
White Hart, Holborn 101, 129
White Lion prison, Southwark 355
White Webbs, Enfield Chase 1, 219, 271, 280, 284, 289, 293, 294, 300–1, 323, 330, 330n, 333, 341, 342, 344
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury 164, 200
Wiburn, Percival 37–8
Widow’s Glass, The 145, 167
Wilkinson, John 351
William of Orange 96, 106, 321n
Williams, Sara xx, 113–24, 123n, 130, 131, 187
Williams, Friswood 117, 121n, 130
Wilson, John 167, 211, 339, 355–6
Wilson, Thomas 301
Windsor, Sir William 239–40, 241
St Winifred’s Well, Wales 1, 2, 189, 286–7, 291, 305–6, 319, 320, 323, 336, 342
Wintour, Robert 283, 293, 294, 306, 327, 327n, 365
Wintour, Thomas 272, 277, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 293–4, 295, 299, 300, 323, 327n, 330, 341, 342, 344, 348
Wisbech Castle, Cambridgeshire 131, 212–13
Wiseman, John 257
Wiseman, William 209
Wolsley, Walter 128–9, 128–9n
women: exorcisms and 112–24; ‘fits of the mother’ 120; as recusants 148–55; widows and virgins, Elizabethan views on behaviour of 167–73; criticised for closeness to Jesuits 211–14; ‘wives & kinswomen’ of gunpowder plotters 315–20 see also Vaux, Anne and Vaux, Eliza
Wood, John 47
Woodhouse, Francis 183
Worseley, William 100
Worthington boys 255, 255n
Wright, Christopher 272, 275, 281, 283, 294, 299, 300
Wright, Dorothy 315
Wright, John 272, 275, 281, 282, 283, 294, 299, 300
Wright, William, alias Mr German, S.J. 354–5
Wyatt, Thomas 207–8
Wyborne, William 239
Wylford, Mr 110
Yate family 68
Yates, Hugh 101–2, 129–30
Yaxley, Father 117
Young, Richard xix, 103–4, 137–8, 209, 210
Zúñiga, Pedro de, Marquis of Flores Dávila 264–5, 352
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