Wallcott, Sir Thomas, (i)
Waller, Edmund, (i); quoted, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Walter, Lucy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and birth of Monmouth, (vi); alleged secret marriage to C, (vii), (viii)n, (ix), (x); later life of dissipation, (xi); death, (xii)
Waltham Forest, (i)
Warwick, Sir Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of, (i), (ii)
Weekly Intelligence, (i)
Wells, Winifred, (i)
Welwood, James, (i), (ii)
Wentworth, Henrietta, (i), (ii), (iii)
Western Association: C as nominal General of, (i), (ii); rival army commanders, (iii)
Western Association (underground Royalist movement), (i), (ii), (iii)
Westminster, Treaty of (1674), (i), (ii), (iii)
Westminster Abbey: C’s coronation in (1661), (i); ‘Princes in the Tower’ buried in, (ii); C’s burial in, (iii), (iv)
Westminster Hall, (i); Strafford’s trial in, (ii); C’s post-coronation feast in, (iii)
Westphalia, Peace of (1648), (i)
Wexford massacre (1649), (i)
Wharton, Philip, 4th Baron, (i)
Whitcomb, Robert, (i)
White, Thomas, Bishop of Peterborough, (i)
Whitehall, (i), (ii); Banqueting Hall, (iii), (iv); Painted Chamber, (v), (vi); Privy Garden, (vii), (viii), (ix); Charles I’s execution outside, (x); Barbara Villiers given apartments in (xi), (xii); in Fire of London, (xiii); Barbara’s removal from, (xiv); tennis court, (xv); Louise de Kéroüalle’s apartments in, (xvi); Hortense Mancini in, (xvii); C’s last days at, (xviii); his lying-in-state, (xix), (xx)
Whiteladies, C’s refuge after Worcester, (i), (ii), (iii)
Whitgreave, Thomas, shelters C after Worcester, (i), (ii), (iii)
‘Whores’ Petition’ (1668), (i)
Wigan, (i); battle of (1651), (ii), (iii)
Wilkins, John, Bishop of Chester, (i)
William II of Orange, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); raises troops to help Charles I, (v); advises C to agree to Covenant, (vi); death, (vii)
William III of Orange (and later of England), (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); birth, (ix); guardianship squabble, (x), (xi); admitted to Council of State, (xii); visits England (1670), (xiii), (xiv); C’s patronizing attitude to, (xv), (xvi); made General of Dutch forces, (xvii); and war against England, (xviii), (xix); becomes Stadtholder, (xx); intrigues to alienate France from England, (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii); negotiates marriage to Mary, (xxiv), (xxv); end of war with France, (xxvi); Whig attitude to his authoritarianism, (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix); refusal to support Monmouth’s pretensions, (xxx); alliance with Monmouth, (xxxi), (xxxii), (xxxiii); as candidate for Protestant succession, (xxxiv); increased cordiality between C and, (xxxv)
Williamson, Sir Joseph, (i), (ii), (iii)
Willis, Dr Thomas, (i)
Willoughby de Broke, Lady, (i)
Willoughby of Parham, Francis, 5th Baron, (i)
Willys, Sir Richard, betrayal of Sealed Knot, (i)
Wilmot, Lord, see Rochester, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of
Winchester, new palace at, (i)
Windsor Castle, (i), (ii); Charles I at, (iii), (iv); as royal fortress, (v); Garter ceremony (1661), (vi); tennis court, (vii); renovation of, (viii); C’s illness at (1679), (ix)
‘Windsor Castle’ (Otway), (i)
Windsor Forest, (i)
Winram, George, (i)
Wiseman, Sir Jonathan, (i)
‘Wits, the’, (i)
Wolbarsht, M. L., (i)n
Wolfe, Mr and Mrs (of Madeley), (i)
Wolverhampton, (i), (ii)
Woodstock (Scott), (i)n
Woodville, Elizabeth, (i), (ii)
Worcester, battle of (1651), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); C’s valour at, (viii); his escape from, (ix), (x); his wanderings after, (xi), (xii)
Worcester, siege of (1646), (i)
Wren, Sir Christopher, (i)n, (ii), (iii); Royal Observatory at Greenwich, (iv); replanning of London, (v); new palace at Newmarket, (vi); new palace at Winchester, (vii)
Wright, Michael, (i), (ii)
Wycherley, William, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Wyndham, Anne, (i)
Wyndham, Mrs Christabella, (i); as C’s foster-mother, (ii); her later seduction of him, (iii)
Wyndham, Colonel Francis: and Western Association, (i), (ii); and C’s journey to coast after Worcester, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
York, James, Duke of, see James
York, Anne Hyde, Duchess of, (i), (ii), (iii); marriage, (iv); Catholicism, (v); death, (vi)
York, Mary of Modena, Duchess of, see Mary Beatrice of Modena
York, (i), (ii), (iii)
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