Chapter V

Vere, Aubrey de, Mr., Legends of St. Patrick, 35 Vinegar Hill, 363 Volunteers, Irish, the, 334-340

W

Ware Papers, 163
Waterford, town of, 262;
defence of, 86;
Danes of, 85;
Richard II. lands at, 122
Wexford, town of, 83;
castle of, 87;
siege by Cromwell, 262
Whitby, Synod of, 46
Whiteboys, outrages of, 342-344
Wicklow, landing of St. Patrick in, 33
William of Orange in Ireland, 288;
he lands at Carrickfergus, 288;
meets James's army, is victorious at the battle of the Boyne, 289;
offers free pardon, 290;
besieges Limerick, 291;
his evidence about the treaty of Limerick, 296
Willoughby, Sir Francis, Governor of Dublin, 246
Winter, Admiral, 187
Wolfe, Tone, 354;
leader of United Irishmen, 354;
meets Lord Edward Fitzgerald in Paris, 355;
his scheme of descent, 355;
descent fails, 357;
a fresh attempt, 358;
again fails, 361;
is arrested on board the _Hoche_, 361;
condemned and dies in prison, 366
Wood, patentee of halfpence, 317

Y

Yellow Ford, battle of the, 203 "Young Ireland," party of, 388, 390