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of Charles and James, 282. 283.His alliance with Caslelmaine,Dover, and Albeville, and counselto James, 2S5. His nominalionto the military rule of Ireland,370. 371. His summons to White-hall, and influence at Court onIrish affairs, 371. Ilis prepara-tions for arming the Celts, andreturn to Ireland, 374. 375. Hispartiality to the Papists, andtreatment of Clarendon, 375. 376.His conduct in the Privy Council,376. 377. His journey to London,378. His calumnies against Ro-chester, 380. 381. Is appointedto succeed Clarendon, 388. 389.His arrival in Ireland, and dis-may of the colonists thereupon,390. 391.
United Provinces. See Holland.
Utrecht, Union of, 117.
Valence, Bishop of; his speech toLewis XIV., 251.
Vienna. See Austria.
Voltaire, 198. and note.
Wade, Nathaniel, 97. Arrives inEngland with Monmouth, 142.Shares the encounter with themilitia at Bridport, 146. Objectslo Monmouth’s assuming the titleof king, 156. His flight after thebattle of Sedgemoor, 225. Ad-mitted to pardon, ib. (See alsop. 274.)
Wake, 341. 342. note.
Walker, Obadiah, Master ofUni-versity College, Oxford; bispretended Protestantism ; heespouses the Romish faith onJames’s accession, and abjuresit on his downfall, 319. 320.His printing press, 343.
Waller, Edmund, 259. note.
Walters, Lucy , 158. (See alsovol. I. pp. 245. 247.)
Warre, Sir Francis; refuses lo ne-gotiate on behalf of the Queen’smaids of honour for the ransomof the Taunton children, 222 .
Wells, cathedral of; desecrated byMonmouth’s troops, 170.
Wentworth. Henrietta, Baroness;her romantic attachment to Mon-mouth, 105. 106. Her sacrificeof property in aid of his expedi-tion, 114. ller early death, andlocal memorial of Monmouth’saffection, 197.
Westerhall, Laird of; persecutesthe Covenanters, 71.
Weston Zoyland; local reminis-cences of its inhabitants con-nected with Monmouth’s rebel-lion, 172. Its church used as aprison after the battle of Sedge-moor, 182.
Wharton, Henry, 342.
Wharton, Thomas; court and Toryopposition to his election; histactics and victory, 50. 51. Pro-poses the consideration ofJames’s reply to the Commons,263. 264.
Whig refugees on the Continent,94. Their English correspon-dents, Wildman and Danvers, 95.Their character, 96. (See Ayloffe,Ferguson, Goodenough, Grey,Monmouth, Rumbold, Wade.)
Whig; their defeat in the electionsof 1685, 49. Their efforts forthe counties, and triumph inBuckinghamshire, 50. 51. Theirinsignificance in the new parlia-ment, 87. Their opposition inparliament to the new TreasonBill of theTories,i51. Unwilling-ness of the Whig aristocracy toparticipate in Monmouth’s in-surrection, 155. 157. 158. Theirpowerlessness after the suppres-sion of Monmouth’s rebellion,236. Symptoms of reaction in