296; their action in military affairs,
ib.; general remarks on their action,
296, 297; laws passed by, at Exeter
under Æthelstan, 308; decreed pay-
ment to the Danes, 311; sit in judge-
ment on Leofsige, 312; order the
massacre of Saint Brice, ib.; their
meeting in 1005, 323; meet at Shrews-
bury in 1007 and again pay tribute,
330; necessity of the measure, 330,
33; pass laws against heathenism
and the slave-trade, 332-334; patri-
otic spirit of their legislation, 334-
336, 432; decree the formation of a
fleet, 334, 335; question of their action
without the King, 335; purchase
peace again, 346; question of their
election of Swegen, 358; decree the
restoration of Ethelred, 365; declare
all Danish Kings outlaws, 365, 366;
meet in 1015 at Oxford, 369-370;
duration of their meetings, 372; choose
Cnut at Southampton, 379; meet at
London, and choose Cnut as King,
402, 673; pass sentence of outlawry
upon the two Eadwigs, 403; execu-
tions at the Christmas meeting of
1017, 411; meet at Oxford in
1018, and renew Eadgar's Law, 416;
meet at Cirencester in 1020, and
banish Ethelweard, 421; meet at
Oxford and divide the Kingdom be-
tween Harold and Harthacnut, 482,
483; choose Harthacnut King, 505;
acquit Godwine, 510; confirm grants
of Folkland, 590; popular elements
in, 591; meet at Gillingham in Dor-
setshire in 1042, ii. 9, 518; and elect
Eadward, 10; their general powers
not lessened under Eadward the Con-
fessor, 53; meet at Gloucester in
1043, 61; their functions discharged
by the army, 103; nature of the
military Gemót, 104; meet in Lon-
don in 1050, and reverse the out-
lawry of Swegen, 106, 113; sum-
moned to Gloucester to hear the
charges against Godwine, 16; ad-
journed, 145; assemble in London
and renew the outlawry of Swegen,
145, 146; pass sentence of outlawry
on Godwine and his family, 148;
meet at London and decree the acquit-
tal and restoration of Godwine, 333;
pass sentence of outlawry and de-
privation on Archbishop Robert and
other Normans, ib.; choose Harold in
succession to Godwine as Earl of the
West-Saxons, 355; their action in
regard to the monks of Malmesbury,
403; difficulties in the supposition of
their formal vote for Harold's suc-
cession, 424; approve the appoint-
ment of Bishop Wulfstan in 1062,
461, 462; meet at Gloucester in
1062, 465.
Worcester, Harthacnut's Housecarls
killed at, i. 514; the Earls sent
against, 515; the city burned and the
shire ravaged, 516; patriotic Bishops
of, 517; Ealdred succeeds Lyfing as
Bishop of, ii. 85; comparison be-
tween the cases of Worcester under
Harthacnut and Dover under Ead-
ward, 133; action of its clergy and
people in the case of Wulfstan, 459;
Danish spoilers of the church of,
543, 563; its connexion with Ead-
wine, 566.
Worcester Chronicle, i. 399; its account
of the submission of Scotland to Cnut,
741; of the death of the Ætheling
Elfred, 756; of Godwine, ii. 535.
602, 603; of the Welsh Campaign of
1049, 595; of castle-building, 607.
Worcestershire, succession of Earls in,
ii. 563-565; Danish influence in, 563;
acts of local Scirgemóts, ib.
Wulfgeat, favourite of Ethelred, his
rise and fall, i. 324, 643; his lands
granted to Bishop Brihtwold, 370.
Wulfnoth, father of Earl Godwine, i.
701, 711; whether identical with
Child Wulfnoth, 706; whether a
Ceorl. 708; story of him in the
Knytlinga Saga, 709.
Wulfnoth the South - Saxon, burns
Brihtric's ships, i. 341; title of
"Child" applied to, 649; confiscation
of his lands, 705.
Wulfnoth, sixth son of Earl Godwine,
ii. 35.
Wulfnoth, the Housecarl, grant made
to, i. 737.
Wulfred, Archbishop, his relations with
Cenwulf, i. 560.
Wulfric Spot, killed at Ringmere, i.
344; founder of Burton Abbey, 345;
acts as a volunteer, ib.; his rank, 656;
his family connexions, 657; buried
in his own monastery, ib.
Wulfric. Abbot of Saint Augustine's,
present at the Synod of Rheims, ii.
III; his death, 451.
Wulfsige, Bishop of Dorsetshire, sub-
stitutes monks for canons at Sher-
borne, i. 294.
Wulfsige, Abbot of Ramsey, his churlish
dealings with Brihtnoth, i. 390; his
death at Assandun, ib.
Wulfstan, son of Ceola, defends the
bridge at Maldon, i. 270.
Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, called
Lupus, his sermon to the English, i.
367, 368, 668; consecrates the church
on Assandun, 423.
Wulfstan, Saint, Bishop of Worcester,
his zeal against the slave-trade, i.
333; Harold's friendship for, ii. 41 ;
appointed Bishop of Worcester, 459,
461; his life and character, 460;
makes canonical profession to Stigand,
but is consecrated by Ealdred, 463;
legends of, 573; his ecclesiastical pro-
fession to Lanfranc, 634, 635. See
also ii. 575-634.
Wulfthryth, mother of Saint Eadgyth,
i. 65.
Wulfwig, Bishop of Dorchester, his
will quoted, i. 737; succeeds Ulf, ii.
342, 360; writs addressed to him,
560, 561.
Wyrtgeorn, King of the Wends, whether
the same as Godescale, i. 725.
Wythmann, Abbot of Ramsey in the
reign of Cnut, an instance of the pro-
motion of German ecclesiastics, ii. 79,
583.
Yonge, Miss, her tale of "The Little
Duke,"i. 206; her History of Christian
Names, 748.
York, French embassy to Æthelstan at,
i. 197.
Younger, opposed to Elder, i. 581.
Zoé, Empress, ii. 75; story of her pas
sion for Harold Hardrada, 77-
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