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Utrecht, Treaty of 282, 354
Van Dyck 53, 64, 65
Vane, Henry 91, 136, 177, 178, 182, 183, 202, 210
Vaudreuil, Governor 361–2
Verney, Sir Edmund 52, 54, 76, 77, 81, 86, 106–7, 109–10, 113, 114
Edmund 168
Mary 133
Ralph 76, 81, 107, 113–14, 132–3, 194
Vernon, Vice-Admiral 302, 309, 319
Versailles, Treaty of 386
Victorians 17–18, 89, 140, 253
Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham 49–52 passim, 55–6, 59
Wade, General 306, 314
Wafer, Lionel 271
Wakeman, George 244
Walahjah, Muhammad Ali 398
Wales 124, 135, 186
Waller, Sir William 116–17, 120, 122, 123
Wallington, Nehemiah 80, 81, 85–7 passim, 93, 96–8 passim, 132
Walpole, Horace 290, 311, 318, 361–6 passim
Sir Robert 284–93 passim, 297, 300–1, 302, 323–4
Walter, Lucy 173, 242
Walton, Col. Valentine 121
Walwyn, William 149, 152–4 passim, 155, 156
war
American Independence 382–6, 387–8
Austrian Succession 397
civil 1st 109–29, 143, 144; 2nd 134–5, 147, 151, 165, 166
with France 253, 273–4, 302, 322, 355–66, 398, 399, 418–19
with Holland 178, 186, 216, 226, 234–5
in India 417, 419–21
with Scotland 23, 76–7, 86–7, 173–4 see also Jacobitism
with Spain 49–50, 52, 55, 190, 194, 301–2
Wardour Castle, siege of 16
Warwick, Earl of 59, 65, 83, 87, 89, 133, 196, 333
Washington, George 351, 353, 379, 383, 386, 387
Watt, James 314
Wellesley, Arthur 418, 419, 420
Henry 417, 421
Hyacinthe 418, 419
Richard, 1st Marquis 347, 417–21 passim
Wentworth, Sir Peter 183
Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford 55, 78, 79, 85, 87–96 passim, 104, 139, 236
West Indies 344, 345, 348–9, 359, 363 see also individual entries
Wharton, Nehemiah 111
Whateley, Thomas 377
Whigs 238, 242, 243, 245, 247, 249, 251, 252, 253, 259, 260, 278–92 passim
Whistler, Henry 332
White, Rev. John 35, 46, 47, 81, 83, 118
White Mountain, battle of 48
Whitelocke, Bulstrode 81, 102, 177, 180–1, 196
de Wicquevoort, Abraham 247
Wild, Jonathan 296–7
Wildman, John 156, 246, 262
Wilkins, John 177, 192
William of Orange 206–7, 232, 247, 249, 252–61; William III 261–5, 274, 280, 383, 384
Williams, Bishop John 53, 84, 87
Wilton House 39
Winstanley, Gerard 155
Winter, Thomas 36
Winwick, battle of 135
Winwood, Sir Ralph 44
Wolfe, James 323, 347, 357, 358, 360–1
Wood, Anthony 168
Worcester, battle of 174
Wren, Christopher 177, 192, 221–30 passim, 276
Bishop Matthew 68, 87, 211, 221, 223, 224
Stephen 227
Wyatt, Sir Francis 327
York, siege of 120–1
Yorktown, surrender at 386, 387–8, 413
Zoffany, Johann 410
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