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Wales, proclamation banishing priests from, 243.

Walker, Valcher, Sir Edward, garter king at arms, clerk to the Council, 197.

Waller, Sir Hardres, sent from Tower to Jersey, 66.

-, Sir William, offers levy and ships against Turks, 148, 156, 165; will not bring ships without a levy, wants to go privateering against Turks, 170.

Walloons, a few picked, in Dunkirk garrison, 16, 84; Batteville collects in London, against Estrades, 55.

Wallop, Walop, Walops, Robert, regicide, punishment decreed for, 11; punished on anniversary, 106.

Waltham Cross, co. Herts, murder of John Hoppy near, 115n.

Wariston, laird of. See Johnston, Archibald.

Warnerus, Levinus, Dutch resident at the Porte:
-, informed of requisition of ships by Turks, 112; accuses Winchelsea of being cause of trouble, 116; Winchelsea says all the mischief due to, 116.
-, admits Turks are masters and necessary to obey them, 112; tries to buy off own ship, 116; Winchelsea says had advantage because ship had sailed, 126.
-, treating with Grand Vizier for hire of ships, 165; Ballarino makes representations to against hiring, 225; easily prevented requisition of ships by Turks, 240.
-, accepts paper abusing Winchelsea, 253.

weather:
-, excessive heat, 12; exceptional cold, 68; threatens pestilence or scarcity, 111.
-, fierce gale in Ocean and Mediterranean, 108; furious winds, 110, 114, 233.
-, great gale in London and country, 115–6, 119; incessant rain and high winds, 169; great damage by storm, 171.
-, queen suffers from damp in England, 154; bad, 203, 208, 244, 246.
-, great gale at mouth of Thames, 168–9; great cold, Thames frozen, 221, 223; exceptional severity, 226; gale ships wrecked, 233.

Wechelsea. SeeFinch, Heneage, earl of Winchelsea.

Weiman, Daniel, chancellor of Brandenburg, ambassador of Brandenburg in England, ministers busy over congé, 18; leaves for home, 37; did not acknowledge Mello till after marriage announced, 202.

Weit. See White.

Wentworth, Thomas, arraigned for murder of John Hoppy, 115.

-, Thomas, earl of Cleveland, regiment of horse formed under, 187.

-, William, earl of Stafford, regiment of horse formed under, 187.

West India Co., the Dutch, will suffer from prosperity of Eastern Co., 255.

West Indies. See Indies, West.

Westerman, Caspar, ambassador of Hanse Towns, arrival and entry, 217.

Westminster:
-, Venetian ambassadors conducted to, 23; proclamation because of numerous and audacious robberies in, 115.
-, parliament at, 120; king goes to, to give royal assent to bills, 146; usual place for parliament, 252.
-, king and queen return to, 246.

-, Abbey, Cromwell's remains cast out from, 83.

-, palace, heads of regicides exposed at, 83; papers of covenant burned at, 133.

-, Palace Yard, seditious books burned in, 76n.

wheat, Louis makes provision of, 158; ships with seized by English, 158–9; remonstrance about, 159; Estrades may have come about, 175.

White, Veit, Weit, Ignatius, an Irishman:
-, in London, to sound feeling about friendly relations, 195; said nothing to the point, 209.
-, sent by Caracena, 195; Caracena disowns, 209.

White Sea, advantage of Turkish concentration in, 258.

Whitehall. See under London.

Wickham, Tobias, arrest of, 209n.

Wielks, Colonel, committed to Gatehouse, 63.

Wight, isle of, co. Hants, Mello weatherbound at, 30; Batteville passed through, on way to Spain, 183.

-, governor of. See Hammond, Robert.

Wilkinson, Robert, captain of the Zante frigate, 136.

William and Sarah, William Sarra, English ship, captured by Tripolitans, 143, 145.

Williams, Abraham, house in Palace Yard used by ambassadors, 101n.

Wilson, Robert, Quaker bookseller, books of seized and burned, 76.

Winchelsea, countess of. See Finch, Mary.

-, earl of. See Finch, Heneage.

Winchester, statute of, proclamation ordaining observance of, 115n.

Winchester, co. Hants, king and queen to stay at, 150.

Windischgrätz, Vindisgratz, Theophilus, count of, chosen ambassador to Sweden, 272.

Windsor, co. Berks, king goes to, for Garter celebrations, 244–5.

Windsor, Thomas lord, governor of Jamaica, attack on Santiago de Cuba, 232; Medina says operations disapproved by Charles, 243.

wine:
-, Allen forced to pay duty on at Zante, 44.
-, Grand Duke sent present of, to Cromwell, 98; he sends present of, to Charles, York and Clarendon, 156.
-, trade in, with Spain, 195.
-, privilege of ambassadors for, 197; Clarendon wishes to withdraw, 201.

Wladislaus IV, king of Poland, 293n.

women, claim right to preach, among Independents, 86.

wool, English ship with, taken by corsairs, 80.

-, making, proposed tax on, abandoned, 259.

Worcester, battle of, referred to, 16.

Wriothesley, Thomas, earl of Southampton, the lord Treasurer, reports a deficit of three millions, 32; wants to take away privileges of ambassadors, 201.

Wyld, Edward, merchant, appeal to Senate for despatch of case, 8, 31; orders for issued, 17.