The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (83 page)

Verzelini, Giacomo (1522–1607) 260

Vesalius, Andreas (1514–64) 120, 290

vestments, ecclesiastical 78, 79, 81, 89

victuallers 18, 53

vinegar 139, 159, 243, 249–51, 257, 259, 261, 277, 286

vintners 18, 53, 237, 254

Vintners’ Company
see
London

violence
see
crime

Virgil (70–19
BC
) 107, 344

virginals maker 54

Virginia 112, 122

Vitruvius, Marcus (
c
.70-
c
.15
BC
) 223

Vredemen de Vries, Hans (1527–
c
.1607) 223

Wager, Lewis (d.1562) 352

wages
see
incomes

wainscoting
see
panelling

waits
see
music

wakes 72

Wales, Welsh 22, 40, 108, 112, 115, 130, 135, 140, 200

Walker, Gilbert 326

Wallingford 197

Walsingham, Sir Francis (
c
.1532–90) 85, 222, 294, 295, 373

Walter, William (d. 1585) 232–4

Wapping 303

Ward, Jack (
c
. 1553–1622) 215

Ward, Margaret (d.1588) 96

Wardington 235

Wardrobe, royal 160–2, 321;
see also
clothes; Elizabeth

Ware, Great Bed of 226

warming pans 237

Warner, Master 311

Warwickshire 22

washerwomen 27, 58, 157, 189–90, 219, 273

washing 102, 239, 281

washing bodies 212, 267, 270–5, 286

washing clothes 63, 167, 188–90, 286

washing faces 227, 240, 272–4

washing hair 172, 184, 273

washing hands 154, 227, 248, 271–4

washing household items 269

washing in milk, oil or perfume 275

washing teeth
see
oral hygiene

washman 298

watches 142

watchmen 292, 306, 310

water closet 268, 350

water supply 9, 34, 117, 234, 239–240, 260, 268, 269, 271, 272, 307;
see also
London, conduits

water-bearers 239

watermen 194, 204, 308, 325;
see also
Taylor

watermills
see
mills

waterwheels 239

Watling Street 25, 26

weapons 186–7, 203, 224, 297, 300, 329 (daggers 186, 329; swords 186, 203, 329);
see also
archery; guns

weavers 53

Webbe, Jerman (d.1593) 48

Webbe, John (d.1582) 48

Webster, John (1578x80–1630) 350

weddings 81, 101, 163, 247, 261, 279, 332, 339;
see also
marriage; rings

Weelkes, Thomas (1576?–1623) 340

Wells 16

wells
see
water supply

Welsh language 135

West Ham, Essex 318, 331

Westcote, Thomas (1567–1637) 378

Westminster 89, 109, 204, 307, 322;
see also
Parliament

Westminster Abbey 29, 76, 77

Westminster Palace 27–8, 222, 294

Westminster School 106, 352

Westmorland 20

Westmorland, earl of
see
Neville

Weston, William (1549/50–1615) 85–7

Wexford, County 214

whalebones 162, 164, 165

wharves
see
London, quays

wheat
see
corn

Wheathill, Anne (
fl
. 1584) 68

wheelwrights 18, 56

wherries
see
ships

whip-jack 298

whipping 60, 96, 294, 304, 307–9

whipping posts 308

White Roothing 331

White, Edward 104

Whitechapel
see
London

Whitehall 27–9, 77, 222, 228, 274, 320–2, 333, 346

Whitgift, John (1530/1–1604), archbishop of Canterbury 90, 91

Whithorne, Thomas (
c
. 1528–96) 38

Whitney, Geffrey (1548?–1600/1) 174

Whitney, Isabella (
fl
. 1566–73) 69–71, 138

Whittingham, George (d.1603) 221

Widdrington 201

Wigmore Castle 129, 222

wigs 175

Wilbye, John (1574–1638) 340, 341

Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900) 93

William II (
c
.1060–1100), king of England

Williams, Helen 58

Williams, John, of Gray’s Thurrock 84

Williams, John, of Norwich 58

Willoughby, Percival (1554–1643) 248

Willoughby, Sir Francis (1546–96) 198, 221, 223–9, 248–52, 254, 270, 337

wills 109, 150

Wilson, Robert (d.1600) 354

Wilson, Thomas (d.1629) 39, 47, 48, 99, 207

Wilton House 350

Wiltshire 22, 23, 222, 223

Winchester 16, 196

Winchester School 107

Winchester, bishops of 50

Winchester, marquessate of 47

windmills
see
mills

Windsor 112, 205, 222, 274, 320

wine 139, 220, 243, 246, 247, 249, 260–2, 320, 322 (Bastard 262; brandy 262; Capri 262; Catepument 262; claret 221, 252, 261; French 261–2; German 261; Greek 261–2; hippocras 261; Languedoc 261; Malmsey 261; Muscadine 285; Muscatel 261; Osy 262; Raspis 262; Rhenish 261; Rumney 262; sack 221, 261; Spanish 261, 323; white 221, 261)

Wisbech Castle 87

wit 69, 100–1, 203

witchcraft 96, 119, 123, 127–8, 266, 302, 304, 306

Witham, River 203

Witley (Surrey) 183

Witney 236

woad 159, 267

wolf 321

Wollaton Hall 3, 221, 223–9, 246, 248, 254, 269, 270, 337

women 38, 67, 115, 125, 215, 225–6, 271, 281, 284 (attire 157, 162–77; criminal activities by 297–300; discrimination against 62–4, 70–1, 79, 128, 153, 304, 306–7, 352, 370; ducking stools 310; freedom of 66–7, 155, 193; literature by 68–71; medical knowledge of 284–7; milk of 286; scolds 311; unmarried mothers 318);
see also
dells; demanders for glimmer; doxies; education; marriage; midwives; morts; nursing; pregnancy and childbirth; prostitution; washerwomen

woodenware 231, 232, 238, 259, 260

woodsmen 56

Woodstock Palace 222, 320

wool 8, 12, 20, 29, 55, 146, 151, 156, 158, 179, 182, 233, 287, 289

Wool Cap Act
see
Parliament

wool trade 20, 55, 151 (carding 151, 233; spinning; 57, 58, 151, 232)

woollens 134, 145, 146, 151, 163, 165, 170, 189, 233 (bay 158; blanket 227; broadcloth 158; cotton 158, 227; felt 182; flannel 158, 165; frieze 158, 183; frizado 158; kendal 158; kersey 158, 165; mockado 158; russet 158, 171, 183; says 158; scammel 158; scarlet 134, 158, 169; serge 158, 179, 180, 187; worsted 158, 180);
see also
fustian; linsey-woolsey; looms

Woolwich 207

Worcester 16

Worcestershire 150

workhouses 61

Worme, John 316

worms 285

Worthy (Hants) 196

wrestling 106, 329, 330

Wright, Edward (1561–1615) 211

Wright, Jane 318–19

Württemberg, duke of
see
Frederick I

Wyatt, Sir Thomas (
c
.1521–54) 41

Wynter, John 216, 217

Yarmouth
see
Great Yarmouth

yeast 250, 263

yeomen 9, 22, 24, 39, 53–6, 152, 168, 176, 183, 199, 230–3, 236, 238, 243, 244, 257, 260, 292, 313

York 16, 107, 109, 305, 314, 351

York, archbishops of 50

Yorkshire 22, 23, 59

Zutphen, siege of (1586) 346

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