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God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England

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by Childs, Jessie


  Vaux, William (son of George and Eliza Vaux) 264–5, 356, 359, 360

  Vaux, Sir William (1437–71) 9

  Vavasour, Thomas 178, 343

  Verney, Sir Richard 304, 305, 305n, 306, 309

  Verstegan, Richard 198n, 199, 207

  Waad, William 245, 246, 331, 333

  Walpole, Henry, S.J. 206, 208, 211, 339

  Walpole, Michael, S.J. 211, 356

  Walsingham, Sir Francis xix, xx, 24; Ridolfi Plot and 34; ‘St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre’, witnesses 35–6; Cobham writes to on Catholic connections of Vaux family 92–3, 96; fears Catholic zeal in France 96; James Hill writes to on Vaux household 101–2; on ‘Leicester’s Commonwealth’ 104n; ‘Bond of Association’ and 106–7; informed of Hoxton fund meeting 110–11; Babington Plot and 125, 126, 127, 198; Maliverey Catilyn and 139; death 174, 190–1; endorses idea of English Catholic colony in North America 273

  Ward, Margaret 4, 154–5

  Ward, Mary 150, 150n, 316n, 354

  Watson, Thomas 258n

  Watson, William 211–14, 212n, 215, 218n, 277–8, 335

  Wells, Swithin 199n

  Wenman, Agnes, Lady 261, 265, 266, 267, 286, 301–2, 313

  Wenman, Sir Richard 266, 394, 405

  Westmorland, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of 27, 228

  Weston, William, alias Edmunds, S.J. 109, 109n, 112, 113, 116, 117, 118, 121, 124, 128, 130–1, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 149–50, 217

  Wheeler, Humfrey 128

  White Hart, Holborn 101, 129

  White Lion prison, Southwark 355

  White Webbs, Enfield Chase 1, 219, 271, 280, 284, 289, 293, 294, 300–1, 323, 330, 330n, 333, 341, 342, 344

  Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury 164, 200

  Wiburn, Percival 37–8

  Widow’s Glass, The 145, 167

  Wilkinson, John 351

  William of Orange 96, 106, 321n

  Williams, Sara xx, 113–24, 123n, 130, 131, 187

  Williams, Friswood 117, 121n, 130

  Wilson, John 167, 211, 339, 355–6

  Wilson, Thomas 301

  Windsor, Sir William 239–40, 241

  St Winifred’s Well, Wales 1, 2, 189, 286–7, 291, 305–6, 319, 320, 323, 336, 342

  Wintour, Robert 283, 293, 294, 306, 327, 327n, 365

  Wintour, Thomas 272, 277, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 293–4, 295, 299, 300, 323, 327n, 330, 341, 342, 344, 348

  Wisbech Castle, Cambridgeshire 131, 212–13

  Wiseman, John 257

  Wiseman, William 209

  Wolsley, Walter 128–9, 128–9n

  women: exorcisms and 112–24; ‘fits of the mother’ 120; as recusants 148–55; widows and virgins, Elizabethan views on behaviour of 167–73; criticised for closeness to Jesuits 211–14; ‘wives & kinswomen’ of gunpowder plotters 315–20 see also Vaux, Anne and Vaux, Eliza

  Wood, John 47

  Woodhouse, Francis 183

  Worseley, William 100

  Worthington boys 255, 255n

  Wright, Christopher 272, 275, 281, 283, 294, 299, 300

  Wright, Dorothy 315

  Wright, John 272, 275, 281, 282, 283, 294, 299, 300

  Wright, William, alias Mr German, S.J. 354–5

  Wyatt, Thomas 207–8

  Wyborne, William 239

  Wylford, Mr 110

  Yate family 68

  Yates, Hugh 101–2, 129–30

  Yaxley, Father 117

  Young, Richard xix, 103–4, 137–8, 209, 210

  Zúñiga, Pedro de, Marquis of Flores Dávila 264–5, 352

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