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Waal, River, Netherlands:
-, Vere's levies to go by, 314.

Wake, Isaac, English resident in Savoy, 65, 126.
-, envoy of, to Union, 1; says James will help Bohemians, 2, 16; defends James, 4.
-, opinion on Ferdinand's election, 12; writes of Villa's mission, 21n.
-, duke speaks to, about Donato, 26, 37; speaks to Pesaro about Donato, 29.
-, asks for continuance of Vivo, news to Pesaro, 30.
-, urges Bernese not to grant passage to troops, 33; writes home about Donato, 45.
-, calls Gatti infamous, 46n; asks duke to find out if Spain in earnest about marriage, 50.
-, arranges matters with Bernese, requests of duke, 58.
-, speaks of Hay's dissatisfaction at detention, 62, 71; Pesaro explains case, 86.
-, keeps Herbert supplied with news, 68; complains about Venetians dismissing troops, 69.
-, speaks to Pesaro about Berne and Bohemia, 73, 86; wants embassy sent to Bohemia and emperor, 99.
-, duke tells of French plans in Germany, 100; tells Pesaro about Donato case, 104, 148.
-, opinion on Protestants of Saluzzo, 124, 174; indisposed, 148; explains Saluzzo executions, 173n.
-, accused of fomenting Saluzzo protestants, 174; tells Palatine of Spanish request to send troops through Savoy, 181.
-, promised Venetian embassy by James, 186; opinion of Gabaleoni's chaplain, 194, 209.
-, special audience, 208; persuades duke to satisfy Pesaro, 209.
-, refuses services of Savoyard troops for Palatine, 209.
-, Sarmiento objects to mission to Germany, 210; suspicious of France, 218.
-, opinion upon Savoy's negotiations with emperor, 226 and note.
-, duke complains to, of suspicions and explains conduct, 233; long interview with duke, 238.
-, asks duke for cavalry for Germany, 240; gets direction of Spanish troops changed, 246.
-, information to Pesaro, 247, 248; sends secretary home, 250.
-, negotiates for inclusion of Savoy in league, 257; says Savoy wants to ally with Dutch, Union and English. 301.
-, tells of Anglo Spanish marriage negotiations, 258, 259; says marriage will not take place, 288, 301.
-, reports passage of Spanish troops, 261; Savoy says ought to speak, 278.
-, vexed at treatment of Aerssens, 312; letter to Aerssens, 344, 345; Savoy apologises to, for Aerssens' treatment, 353.
-, letter from, 321; letters to Calvert, 332n. 367n.
-, opinions upon Valtelline affair, 342, 343; sends secretary to Berne, 343: James waits to hear from, 364.
-, confers with Savoy upon affairs, 343, 344; Pesaro to commend, 350; letter to Berne, 359.
-, to be approached to avert French danger from Savoy. 360; suspicious of duke, 366, 367.
-, letters delayed, 369; letters come with account of Valtelline, 376; Venice commends, 379.
-, exhortations to Berne about Valtelline, 380; confidential relations with Pesaro, 384.
-, no news from, 392; to act as Palatine's agent at Turin, 398.
-, represents importance of Valtelline affair, 400, 414, 416; Naunton answers, 421.
-, urges Bernese to help Grisons, 427; says Bernese constant, 435.
-, Lando thanks relations of, 442; secret negotiations with Lesdiguières, 446.
-, ordered to move Swiss about Valtelline, 454, 469; Naunton writes to, 465.
-, urges Venice to make alliance with England, 469; confidence with Venice, 498.
-, to stir up Savoy and Lesdiguières about Valtelline, 474; to ask them to back Venice, 475, 476.
-, tells Pesaro Wotton soon going to Venice, 478; reports Savoy ready, 481.
-, intrigues against Genoa, 485, 574, 575; views on Mansfelt's fidelity and Bohemian defeat, 493.
-, views about Valtelline, 494; proposed league to Savoy, 504; views on need of resisting Spain, 505.
-, Lesdiguières writes to, 514; opinion of Cadenet's mission, 523; views about Grisons and Germany, 530.
-, wants to unite affairs of Palatinate and Valtelline, 531; Pesaro to keep friendly with, 542.
-, orders about Swiss, 549; reassures duke about Mansfelt, 560, 561; warns Lesdiguières against Savoy, 561.
-, sends home Jacob to urge James, 566, 573; doubtful about James, 566; tells Pesaro of James's declaration for Venice, 571.
-, views on truce, ban and Cadenet, 572; asks for salary, 573; recommends Mansfelt's employment, 573, 574, 576.
-, secret communications with James, 574, 575; recommendations, 576, 584.
-, Bernese appeal to, for Geneva, 584; report on Venice wanting royal ships, 585.
-, statement upon Cadenet's mission, 602; wants help for Mansfelt, 612, 616; sanguine views, 621.

Wales:
-, inventory of arms taken in, 543.
-, -, Prince of. See Charles, Prince of Wales; Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Wallingford, viscount. See Knollys, William.

Walloon:
-, cavalry of Henry of Nassau, 422.
-, pay of mercenaries, 506; regiments for Palatinate, 600.

Wanstead, co. Essex:
-, James at, 18, 325.

Wards, Master of the. See Cranfield, Lionel.

Warwick, earl of. See Rich, Robert.

Wax, 82.

Weather, 57, 60, 61, 64, 71, 87, 166, 298, 437, 496, 579, 607n.

Wesel [Rhenish Prussia, Germany]:
-, Prince of Orange reported at, 388; letter dated from, 409n.
-, case of, compared with Palatinate, 417; united with Milan, 494; example of, 520.

West Indies:
-, trade in, 16; treasure brought by Spanish fleet from, 110; Dutch plan to harass Spaniards in, 144; North's expedition to, 207, 222, 235, 239; agreement of Dutch and English over, 210, 222.
-, value to Spain, 235; English ships for, 235; preparations at Seville for, 487.
-, proposed joint company for, of Dutch and English, 488, 499; Dutch forward with new company, 560.
-, Dutch may go to, 558; Dutch wish to assist Spain in, 570.

West India Company:
-, sent North to found colony on Amazon, 605, 606.

Westminster, co. Middlesex:
-, letters dated from, 334, 539, 622.
-, Cadenet has audience in parliament chamber, 526.

Weston, Vueston, Reston, Sir Richard, English ambassador extraordinary to Germany:
-, embassy to Germany decided, 296; instructions changed, 309; gone, 330.
-, received at Marimont, 348, 367; reply to, 353, 371, 374; going to Cologne, 368; takes leave of Gondomar, 437.
-, instructions about Palatinate, 377; Wotton tells of negotiations with emperor, 424; at Hamburg, 510.
-, recalled, 536; at Hague, 573; honours to, 584; back in England, 603.

Wetterau, Veterau, Upper Hesse, Germany:
-, Baden's forces in, 566.

whale fisheries, 420.

White Mountain, near Prague, Bohemia, battle of, 492, 493, 495, 498, 532n.
-, losses at, 510; pope dies celebrating, 571.

Whitehall. See London, Whitehall.

Wight, isle of, co. Hants:
-, review of Mansell's fleet off, 347, 386; Mansell's fleet goes to, 424; fleet anchored off, 433.

William. Margrave of Baden:
-, Wake wishes to keep Spanish troops away from, 246; James threatens, 417.
-, to replace Anspach as general, 540; has forces in Veterau, 566.

Williams. Abraham, agent in England for the Queen of Bohemia, 64n.
-, Buwinckhausen's present left with, 220.

Willoughby, lord. See Bertie, Henry.

Wilmot, Charles, viscount:
-, member of Council of War, 543n.

Win, John:
-, suit at Venice, 182.

Winchester, co. Hants:
-, bishop of. See Andrewes, Launcelot; Neile, Richard.

Windsor, co. Berks:
-, James expected at, 6; audience of Tillières at, 14; audience of Caron and Dohna at, 417.

wine, 26, 362, 591.

Wirtemberg, duke of. See John Frederick.

Wittenberg, See John Frederick, duke of Wirtemberg.

Wolf, Henry, mercenary:
-, to levy force of ultramontanes, 612.

Wolfenbüttel, Wolffenbeutel, in Brunswick, Germany:
-, Queen of Bohemia may withdraw to, 523.

Woodford, John:
-, letter to Nethersole, 463n.

Woodstock, co. Oxford:
-, James at, 3n.

wool, order forbidding exportation from England of unworked wool, 460.

woollen cloth, 410.

Worms [Rhine Hesse, Germany]:
-, Spinola takes, 429; Baden goes to, 540.

Wotton, Button, Sir Henry, English ambassador at Venice: 64, 139.
-, at Court, 3; calls at Venetian embassy, 6, 24, 44; Marioni calls on, 14.
-, complaint about punishment of mutineers, 17; says Hay returning, 18; says Dutch will help Palatine, 24; returns to London after absence in provinces, 44; opinions and prospects, 59.
-, reports murder of Donato's servant, 80; arrival diminishes Donato's favour, 85; ordered to visit Lando, 89; calls on Lando, speaks of audience and Donato, 96; Lando's high opinion of, 97.
-, Marioni takes leave of, 103; speaks well of Venice to Union, 110; views about Donato, 119, 197.
-, sees Lando about Donato, 121–123, 141–143, 154; testifies to good treatment by Venice, 123, 124.
-, Dohna staying with, 128; report of, contradicted by Lando, 144.
-, satisfied with reply to claims for English soldiers, 146.
-, again appointed ambassador to Venice, 148; aspires to be Secretary of State, 186; disappointed, 207.
-, returning to Venice, expected embassies, 207; letters of credence for Venice, 277, 278.
-, to have instructions for Germany, 264, 268, 272; mission to Germany, 274, 297, 299: commissions of, 284, 308–310.
-, tells James about Badoer, 269; busy with preparations, 296; no news of, 349.
-, letter of Charles for, 334; in king's confidence about design on Grisons, 370.
-, instructions about Palatinate, 379; Leopold's account of representations, 381, 382.
-, letters upon mission in Germany, 388, 395; Leopold questions about marriage, 402.
-, blamed about Wesel, 417; advises Union not to attack Spinola, 428; gone to Nancy, 437.
-, reports negotiations with emperor, 424; instructed to inform Bavaria of James's resolution, 440.
-, to continue peace negotiations and stay with emperor to observe, 442; negotiating with French ambassadors to arrange accommodation, 446; emperor suggests departure, 478.
-, informed of king's declaration about Palatinate, 478; suspicious of Palatine, 489.
-, going on to Venice, 509; sends Cerronio to England, 511n; hastened on, 528, 529.
-, time of reaching Venice left to, 536; at Rovere, arrangements for quarantine, 568.
-, in quarantine near Verona, 583, 591; reply of, 602; appears in Collegio and presents credentials, 622.

Wriothesley, Henry, earl of Southampton:
-, to command English auxiliaries for Palatine, 52, 219; offers from private purse, 137; active in making collection for Palatine, 229; James does not wish to command Palatinate levies, 275, 283.
-, Vere chosen after, 291; selected to command fleet against Algiers, hopes dashed, 299.
-, promises money for war, 441.

Wyngaerdes, James de, Sieur de Wyngaerdes, Dutch ambassador to England, 532n.