Waltham, Purbeck marble for Eleanor cross, 85.
Warde, William, dyer, trade dispute at Coventry, 146-7.
Warwick Castle, foreign stained glass ordered for chapel, 131.
Water-power, use of, in iron-working, 27, 30; in lead mines, 52.
Watts, Richard, poem on weaving processes, 142.
Wax chandlers, regulation of charges, 209.
Weald of Sussex and Kent: centre of ordnance manufacture, after 1543, 113; iron industry, 24, 26, 28-9.
Weardale: iron industry, 27, 31; lead mines, 39.
Weaving industry: gild of alien weavers in London, 225; processes employed, 149-52; regulations for control of, 228, 235-7; religious character of ordinances of gilds, 207; restriction of output, 227; use of trademarks ordered, 216.
Weights and Measures: ale standard measures, 188; barrel of beer and ale respectively, 195; chalder or chaldron, 17-18; cloth regulations, 136, 138, 150, 160-3; coal for, variety of, 14; lead for, variety of, 56.
Wellington, forest of, wood consumed by limekilns, 90.
Westminster, regulations for wages of workmen employed in building, 214.
Westminster Abbey: bell cast for, by Edward Fitz Odo, 102; inlaid tiles in chapter-house, 127; stone used for, 79.
Westmoreland, Earl of, alabaster tomb at Staindrop, 88.
Whitchurch, Dorset, bells cast for and dispute over, 100.
Whitechurch, Hants, Roman iron-works, 21.
Wight, Isle of: clothmaking industry, 167-8; question of identification with the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus, 62-3; stone quarries, 79.
Willarby, George, report on lead mines, 60.
William of Corfe, worker in Purbeck marble, 85.
William of Malmesbury, on manufacture of wine in England, 198.
William de Plessetis, property in Sea Coal Lane, 4.
William de Wrotham, warden of the stannaries, 1198, 72.
Willoughby, Sir John, legal action against Nicholas Strelley, 12-13.
Winchcombe, John, clothier of Newbury, 158, 167.
Winchelsea: beer and cider imported, 193, 197; hops imported, 194.
Winchester: clothmaking industry, 133, 136, 138, 150, 151, 158; iron sent to, from Forest of Dean, 23; stone for royal palace, 78-9.
Wodeward, William, gun-founder, 102, 108.
Wolsingham, Durham, water-power used in lead mines, 52.
Women: employment discouraged, 154, 228; exempted from certain trade restrictions, 218; iron-workers' wages, 32-3; lead mines employment, 51; spinning a staple employment, 148-9; stone quarrywork, payment for, 82-3.