Tudor (86 page)

Woodville, Katherine,
32
,
55
,
78
,
79

Worcester, Countess of,
205

Worcester Priory,
214

Wyatt, Thomas (poet),
163–4
,
204–5
,
208
,
209

Wyatt, Thomas (son of the above),
284
,
288
,
289

Wyatt revolt (1554),
283–5
,
405

Wynn of Gwydir, Sir John,
10

York: Minster,
54
; mystery plays,
55
; mourns Richard III,
73
; Henry VII woos,
81
; and Pilgrimage of Grace,
214
; Augustinian friars,
214

York, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of (father of Edward IV and Richard III),
16
,
19
,
24

York, Richard, Duke of (prince in Tower): handed over to Richard III and declared illegitimate,
47
; in the Tower,
48
; rescue attempt fails,
51
; death,
51–6
,
57
,
76–7
,
91–2
,
121–3
,
129
,
400
,
401–2
,
405–6
; Warbeck impersonates,
93–102

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