Full Index ‘W’

Wade, John 424, 429

Waite, Terry 552, 560

Wake, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 391

Waldensians 219

Wales

Romano-Celtic Church 21, 31

subjugation by Edward I 127

Wall Street Crash (1929) 519, 523

Wallace, William 128

Walpole, Robert 376, 381, 385–6, 405

Walsingham, Sir Francis 302, 308, 309

Walsingham, Thomas 223

Walter, Hubert 118

Wantage Code 84

War of Austrian Succession (1740–48) 388, 389, 405

War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14) 375, 377

Warbeck, Perkin 237

Warburton, William, Bishop of Gloucester 398

Ward, Benedicta 97

Ward, W. G. 448

Warham, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 237, 241, 248–9, 252, 259

Warren, Max 525

Warren, Samuel 459

Wars of the Roses (1455–85) 220, 221, 224–9

Warsaw Pact (1989) 558

Warsaw Uprising 532

Warwick, Earl of 134

Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of 224, 225, 226–7

Waterloo, Battle of (1815) 415, 423

Waterloo churches 432

Watson, David 550, 556, 562

Watson, James Dewey 538

Watson, Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln 298

Watt, James 411

Watts, Isaac 403, 415

Waugh, Benjamin 491

Waugh, Evelyn 527, 539

Weatherhead, Leslie 542

Webb, Beatrice 504

WEC International 592

Wedgwood, Josiah 411, 418, 490

Welby, Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury 574, 576–7

welfare state 533, 535, 536

Wellcome, Henry Solomon 491

Wellesley, Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley 427

Wellhausen, Julius 474

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of 415, 423, 425, 427–8, 429–30, 438

Wells, Algernon 460

Wells, H. G. 512

Wells Cathedral 148, 583

Wentworth, Peter 301, 301–2, 303

Wentworth, Thomas Strafford, Earl of 334, 336–7

Werferth, Bishop of Worcester 63

wergild 77

Wesley, Charles 393–5, 403, 586

Wesley, John 391–402, 409, 418, 587, 589

Wesley, S. S. 585

Wesley, Samuel 392

Wesley, Susanna 392–3

Wessex 27, 56, 60–1, 62, 65, 69, 70

Wessex, Harold, Earl of 79

Wessex, House of 65–8, 72, 73–9

West, Benjamin 415

Westcott, B. F. 473–4

Westcott House, Cambridge 560

Westminster, Treaty of (1153) 107

Westminster Abbey

rebuilt by Edward the Confessor 78

coronations 87, 89, 270

royal weddings 103

royal burials 86, 148, 213, 283

rebuilt by Henry III 124

Cromwell exhumed from 353

Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee (1887) 496

burial of the Unknown Soldier 520

Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) 346

Westminster Hall 126

Whatley, Richard 444–5

Whigs 352, 360, 381

Whitby, Synod of (664) 38–9, 591, 593

Whitby Abbey 37, 46, 53

White, John, Bishop of Winchester 298, 299

White Fathers 484, 543

White Mountain, Battle of (1620) 325

Whitfield, George 391, 393, 396–7, 398, 400, 401

Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury 303, 321

Whittaker, William 311

Whitworth, Charles, 1st Earl Whitworth (Lord Whitworth) 414

Whitworth, Rex 543

Wighard 40

Wiglaf, king of Mercia 56

Wilberforce, Henry 450, 469

Wilberforce, Robert 469

Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford 455, 468, 472

Wilberforce, William 415, 416, 418, 419–22, 482, 589, 596

Wilde, Oscar 505

Wilfrid, Bishop of York; Abbot of Ripon 39, 41–4, 45, 46, 53

Wilhelm II, Kaiser 467, 496–7

Wilkes, John 407

Willbrord of York 138

William, Duke of Normandy (‘the Conqueror’) 78–9, 86, 87–90, 92, 100

William de Roches 119

William de St Calais 91, 95

William de Vere, Bishop of Hereford 174

William III, King of England (William of Orange) 369–70, 371–3, 375

William IV, King 429, 430, 435, 438

William of Auxerre 169

William of Eynsford 109

William of Malmesbury 52, 145, 148

William of Newburgh 132, 145

William of Ockham 171, 178, 179–80, 214, 216, 581

William of Orange (d. 1584) 313

William of Poitiers 88

William of Wykeham 228

William Rufus, King of England 98, 100, 101

Williams, John, Bishop of Lincoln 335–6

Williams, Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury 104, 568, 569–74

Williams, Rowland 475

Williams, Shirley 559

Willibrord 50–1

Wilson, H. B. 475

Wilson, Harold 543, 545, 553

Wilson, Henry 475

Wilson, Leonard, Bishop of Singapore 532

Wilson, Woodrow 518

Wilton Diptych 212

Wimber, John 561–2

Winbert, Abbot of Nursling 51

Winchester 63, 65, 69, 70, 78

synod (1072) 95

Winchester, Henry, Bishop of 104

Winchester Bible 104, 145

Winchester Cathedral 283

Winchilsea, George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of 427

Windrush, S. S. 536

Winnington Ingram, Arthur, Bishop of London 507, 527

Winstanley, Gerald 342

Winter of Discontent (1978–79) 553

Winterbourne, William 437

Winthrop, John 330

Winwaed, Battle of 52

Wiseman, Nicholas, Cardinal 457–8, 492

witan (council) 70, 77, 84, 87

witches 352

Wittenberg 247–8

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 540

Woden (god) 26

Wolfenden Report 546

Wollstonecraft, Mary 414

Wolsey, Garnet, General 497

Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal 238–42, 247, 249, 258, 260

Wolstenholme, Elizabeth 492

women

as Bishops 572–3, 576

“churching” of 150

and infant baptism 316

and Methodism 398

ordination 556, 563–4

repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act (1886) 492

suffrage 499, 503, 518, 590

Wood, Wilfred, Bishop of Croydon 559

Woodstock, Council of (1163) 109

wool trade 132, 133

Worcester, Battle of (1651) 344

Worcester Cathedral 120, 148, 272

Worcester House Conference 353

Wordsworth, Christopher, Bishop of Lincoln 474, 488

Wordsworth, William 413, 443

workhouses 387, 430–1, 477

World Bank 535

World Congress of Evangelism (1966) 549

World Council of Churches

(1938) 525

(1968) 549–50

World Evangelization Crusade (WEC International) 485

World Horizons 592

World Methodist Conference 542

world-wide web 566

Wormald, Patrick 64

Worms, Diet of 248

worship, English 583–7

Wraxall, Sir George 424

Wren, Christopher 352, 363–4

Wright, N. T. 560

Wright, Tom 573

Wulfhere, king of Mercia 41, 52

Wulfstan II, Bishop of Worcester; Archbishop of York 70, 77, 89, 92

Wulfstan of Winchester 70

Wyatt, Thomas (the Younger) 284

Wyatt’s rebellion (1554) 283, 295

Wyclif, John 180, 213–21, 227–8, 581

Wycliffe Bible Translators 592

Wynkyn de Worde 184