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438 YORK.
Westminster Assembly, 387
synod held at, 133 ; grotesque
scene at, respecting
claims of York and Canterbury,
134
Westmoreland, Earl of, enterprise
of, 340 ; his flight into
ib.
Scotland, 345 ; his end,
Wetherby, 345
Whalley, Edmund, Abbot of
St. Mary's, York, remonstrates
against suppression of
smaller monasteries, 231
Wharfe, river, 6; valley of, 128
Whitby, 74 ;
synod of, 48, 51
Whitherne, bishopric of, left
under York when Scottish
sees were removed from
archbishop's jurisdiction,
135 Bishop
; of, poorly endowed,
163
WiCKWAiNE, Archbishop, 157;
his reforming zeal, ib. ; attempts
to reform monastery
of Durham without success,
ib. ;
roughly handled at Durham,
ib.
Wickham, Dr. Tobias, Dean
of York, 401
Wighard, 55
Wight, Isle of, 72, 73 ; land
given to Wilfrid in, 73
WiGMUND, Archbishop, 96
Wilfrid, St., early history
; of, 45, 46, 47 becomes
Abbot of Ripon, 48 ; takes
part in synod of Whitby,
49
; consecrated to see of
York at Compiegne, 53 ; on
returning finds see occupied
by Chad, 54 retires to ; i
Ripon, 55
; studies architecture
and church music, ib.\
takes jiossession of York on
Chad's retirement, 57 ; restores
church of York, ib.;
builds Ripon minster, 58 ;
crypt there, 59 builds
;
church at Hexham, ib. ; description
of it, 60 ; his personal
habits, ib.; appeals to
Rome against Theodore's
division of his diocese, 63 ;
thrown into prison on his
return, 64 ; banished from
Northumbria, 65 evangelises
Sussex and becomes
;
Bishop of the South Saxons,
69> 70 >
goes to visit Theodore,
73 ;
returns to Northumbria,
administers see of
LiTidisfarne, 74 resists
;
Theodore's decrees for partition
of diocese of Northumbria,
75 ; acts £ts Bishop of
Mercia, ib. ; consecrates
Swidbertfor Frisian mission,
ib. ; appeals again to Rome,
77
; decision of council, 78 ;
falls sick at Meaux, 79
council at Knaresburgh respecting
his claims, 80 ;
full
claims not admitted, ib. ;
had see of Hexham and monastery
of Ripon, ib. ; latter
years of, death, and character,
81-83; bishop of
York, 66, 85
William the Conqueror, 104 ;
his landing in Sussex and
march to Hastings, ib.; defeats
Harold, tb. ;
promise
exacted at his coronation by
Archbishop Aldred, 105 ;
fortifies a castle in York, ib.;
attacked by Sweyn, King of
Denmark, ih.; his fury on
hearing of the loss of York
and slaughter of hi» garrison,
107; his vengeance, ib.;
vale of York devastated,
108 ; his church policy, 108,