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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