A History of Britain, Volume 2

by Simon Schama

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  Utrecht, Treaty of 282, 354

  Van Dyck 53, 64, 65

  Vane, Henry 91, 136, 177, 178, 182, 183, 202, 210

  Vaudreuil, Governor 361–2

  Verney, Sir Edmund 52, 54, 76, 77, 81, 86, 106–7, 109–10, 113, 114

  Edmund 168

  Mary 133

  Ralph 76, 81, 107, 113–14, 132–3, 194

  Vernon, Vice-Admiral 302, 309, 319

  Versailles, Treaty of 386

  Victorians 17–18, 89, 140, 253

  Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham 49–52 passim, 55–6, 59

  Wade, General 306, 314

  Wafer, Lionel 271

  Wakeman, George 244

  Walahjah, Muhammad Ali 398

  Wales 124, 135, 186

  Waller, Sir William 116–17, 120, 122, 123

  Wallington, Nehemiah 80, 81, 85–7 passim, 93, 96–8 passim, 132

  Walpole, Horace 290, 311, 318, 361–6 passim

  Sir Robert 284–93 passim, 297, 300–1, 302, 323–4

  Walter, Lucy 173, 242

  Walton, Col. Valentine 121

  Walwyn, William 149, 152–4 passim, 155, 156

  war

  American Independence 382–6, 387–8

  Austrian Succession 397

  civil 1st 109–29, 143, 144; 2nd 134–5, 147, 151, 165, 166

  with France 253, 273–4, 302, 322, 355–66, 398, 399, 418–19

  with Holland 178, 186, 216, 226, 234–5

  in India 417, 419–21

  with Scotland 23, 76–7, 86–7, 173–4 see also Jacobitism

  with Spain 49–50, 52, 55, 190, 194, 301–2

  Wardour Castle, siege of 16

  Warwick, Earl of 59, 65, 83, 87, 89, 133, 196, 333

  Washington, George 351, 353, 379, 383, 386, 387

  Watt, James 314

  Wellesley, Arthur 418, 419, 420

  Henry 417, 421

  Hyacinthe 418, 419

  Richard, 1st Marquis 347, 417–21 passim

  Wentworth, Sir Peter 183

  Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford 55, 78, 79, 85, 87–96 passim, 104, 139, 236

  West Indies 344, 345, 348–9, 359, 363 see also individual entries

  Wharton, Nehemiah 111

  Whateley, Thomas 377

  Whigs 238, 242, 243, 245, 247, 249, 251, 252, 253, 259, 260, 278–92 passim

  Whistler, Henry 332

  White, Rev. John 35, 46, 47, 81, 83, 118

  White Mountain, battle of 48

  Whitelocke, Bulstrode 81, 102, 177, 180–1, 196

  de Wicquevoort, Abraham 247

  Wild, Jonathan 296–7

  Wildman, John 156, 246, 262

  Wilkins, John 177, 192

  William of Orange 206–7, 232, 247, 249, 252–61; William III 261–5, 274, 280, 383, 384

  Williams, Bishop John 53, 84, 87

  Wilton House 39

  Winstanley, Gerard 155

  Winter, Thomas 36

  Winwick, battle of 135

  Winwood, Sir Ralph 44

  Wolfe, James 323, 347, 357, 358, 360–1

  Wood, Anthony 168

  Worcester, battle of 174

  Wren, Christopher 177, 192, 221–30 passim, 276

  Bishop Matthew 68, 87, 211, 221, 223, 224

  Stephen 227

  Wyatt, Sir Francis 327

  York, siege of 120–1

  Yorktown, surrender at 386, 387–8, 413

  Zoffany, Johann 410

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