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 Vane, Sir H., 204, 205, 311

Varna, 35

Vasconcelles, afterwards Archbishop of Lisbon, 65

Vassy, Huguenot defeat, 147; massacre of, 157

Vatican, archives, opening of the, 7; library, 29

Vauban, 239; victories of, 240; cited, 248

Vaud, canton of, 131

Vaudémont, Prince de, envoy to Rome, 225

Venice— Alliance with Lewis XII., 40; relations with Rome, 43, 45-6, 173-4; expansive policy, 44-5; Eastern trade of, 55, 56; St. Mark's Library, 75; Holy Office, 113; political expansion, 172

Vervins, treaty of, 170

Vespucci, 65

Vienna— Turkish invasion, 36, 243; Congress of, 302

Vigo, French fleet destroyed, 260

Villars— Defeat at Malplaquet, 260; victory at Denain, 262

Vincent of Beauvais, 75

Vinci, Leonardo da, notes and diaries of, 84

Vindiciae contra Tyrannos, 164

Virgil, statue removed from marketplace, 73

Virginia, founding of, 199; independence declared, 312

Visconti, the, 38, 40, 119

Voltaire, 25; cited, 234; Frederic II. and, 291

Vulgate, the Latin, revision of, 121

Walcheren, annexation of, 211

Waldenses, suppression, 246

Wallachia, Turkish invasion, 35

Wallenstein— Commissioned by Ferdinand, 186; made Duke of Mecklenburg, 187; rupture with Ferdinand, 187-8; recalled, 189-90; struggle with Gustavus, 190-91; subsequent power, 191, second break with Ferdinand, 192; death, 193

Wallis, voyages, 66

Walpole, cited, 266; policy, 271-74, 290; fall of, 274

Warburg, battle of, 295-6

Warham and Catharine's divorce, 139

Warrants, general, question of, 308

Wartburg, the. 102

Washington— Expeditions against Duquesne, 293; threatens resignation, 312

Waters, Lucy, 218

Weimar, Duke of, 191— Takes Ratisbon, 192; Wallenstein and, 192, 193

Wellesley, General, 23

Western Assize, the, 220

Westminster, Convention at, 294

Weston becomes Roman Catholic, 202

Westphalia, Peace of, 193

Whigs. (See also Party, government by)— Predominance of the, 154, 271; rise of the, 206-18; tenets of the, 216-18; the first, 218; and the Revolution, 231; and Succession War, 261; recognise independence of American colonies, 313

White Mountain, the, 185

William, Emperor of Prussia, 199

William of Orange. (See also William III.)— and the Exclusion Bill, 214; designs on life of, 222; the invitation to England, 224-5; gains support of Rome, 225-7; plot against De Witt, 238-9; captain-general, 239, 241; defeat at Senef, 240; marriage, 240

William III.— Dispensing power, 223; attitude of Rome after Innocent's death, 227; Massacre of Glencoe, 228-9; and the Revocation, 245-6; first Partition Treaty, 250; distrust of English ministers, 251; second Partition Treaty, 252; treaty of the Hague, 255-6; death of, 256-7; character, 257

William the Silent, 145

William the Stadtholder, assassination of, 145

Wimpheling, death of, 105

Windebanke, becomes Roman Catholic, 202

Witchcraft trials, 116

Witt, John de— Death of, 228, 239; government of the Netherlands, 237; attack on England, 238; William of Orange and, 238-9

Wittelsbach, House of, 292

Wittenberg, posting of the Thesis, 136

Wolsey, Cardinal— Correspondence with Tunstall, 98; French schemes, 137-9; relations with Rome, 138; and the English divorce, 139; aims at the Papacy, 142