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- Wainfletus,
- A worthy byshoppe of Winchester, and in his tyme Chauncellour of Englande, of counsayle wyse, graue, politike, well learned himselfe, and both in his tyme and after a great mainteyner of learnyng. He ly∣ued in the troublous tymes of king Henry the sixt, and Edwarde the fourth, in great estimation with the one, and in great displeasure with the other: and therefore felt both the sweete of prosperitie, and the sower panges of aduersitie. In his latter tyme, when he had attayned quietnesse, as a good bishop, more mynding the increase of learning then his owne priuate wealth, to the great furtheraunce thereof, he buylded the notable house of Marye Magdalene colledge in Oxforde. Out of the which, as a singuler nourserie of good letters, wythin fewe yeres haue béene sent into the churche, beside a great number of other well learned, a leuen byshops: and at this daye hath traueyling in the vineyarde of Christ, and planting of his worde, two godly byshops, and diuers other zelous and very well learned. In this house bycause I also was brought vp in my youth, and by the benefite of the founder thereof, attained the small portion of learning that God hath sent me, I ought and doe acknowledge my selfe much to be bounden to him.
- Wallia,
- The countrey of Wayles on the west side of Eng∣lande, so lying out into the sea, that it is compassed a∣bout with the same, sauing onely on the east part: where about Herefourde it is ioyned to this royalme, as a por∣tion or member of the same, diffring onely in name and language. They be the remaines of the olde Britons, that first inhabited this Ilande, and by the Saxones, when they grew here of great power, were constrayned to take that part, as the most safe from the inuasion and disqueting of their enimies. This haue I here put, not bycause I thinke it is vnknowne to any English man, but to take an occasion to clere my selfe of an vniust and false suspicion, that by malicious and naughty tongues hath béen spred of me, as though I should not beare good mynde vnto that countrey, and that I haue written a∣gainst it in a Chronicle, that before tyme I haue sette foorth. If this vntrue surmise had stayed wythin the compasse of the common sort, I woulde not so much haue passed for it (although I haue béene manased daunger by them that neuer saw me): but for so much as I heare, it is crept to those that are both right honest and very worshipfull, I am constrayned in this place somewhat to touche it. What the thing is, that parti∣cularly they are gréeued with, or howe this matter first began, I knowe not. If any shall declare it vnto me, I will be glad to satisfie him. In the meane tyme I pro∣test, I neuer had cause to hate them, and in déede doe so sauour them as my countreymen and faithfull subiectes vnder one prince with me. If I haue vsed any terme, that to them may séeme vnpleasaunt (as in noting the actes of Edwarde the first, I remember I call them vnstable) I trust sober and wise men will take that, as the truthe is, to be spoken vpon occasion of thinges doone at that tyme onely, and not as a propertie annexed to the people. And yet is that not my terme, but Fabian also, whome in some part I followed, vseth the same. Notwithstanding, I thinke hée m••nt none otherwise then I did, that is, so to call them there, bycause in that one kinges reigne they sundrie tymes molested hym. But that is aboue .250. yeares since.
- Vulcanalia, orum,
- neut. gener. plural. Feastes dedicate to Vulcan.
- Vulcanus,
- Iupiters smith, and is taken for fire.
- Vulcanius, a, um,
- Of Vulcane.
- Vulsinij,
- A towne in Tuscane destroyed with lightning.
- Vulsinensis, se,
- Of Vulsinij.
- Vulsinus,
- A ryuer in Italie.
- Vulsinienses,
- People dwelling about the riuer of Vulsinus
- Vultur,
- An hyll of Apulia.
- Vulturnum,
- A towne in Campania.