Werferth, bishop of Worcester, 127;
robbed of woods at Woodchester, 14;
his heroism, 53;
called St. Werferth, 53, 67;
friendship of, with Æthelnoth, 106;
a Mercian, 136, 169;
translation of Gregory’s Dialogues ascribed to, 142, 169;
Boethius translation wrongly assigned to, 185 _n._
Werthryth, widow of Cered, 13;
disposes of her land to Cuthwulf, 13;
her title-deeds carried off by the Danes, 13.
Werwulf, Mercian priest, chaplain to Alfred, 136.
Wessex, relations of, to other kingdoms, 85;
cleared of the Danes, 104;
Danes ravage coasts of, 118;
kings of, _see_ Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred, Æthelwulf, Alfred,
Athelstan, Beorhtric, Cuthred, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Egbert;
bishop of, _see_ Birinus.
Wight, Isle of, naval engagement off, 119.
William I, king of England, owns the site of the battle of Ashdown, 94;
one of the creators of England’s greatness, 210.
William of Malmesbury, his confusions and mistakes, 7;
his account of Alfred, 62, 151;
had special sources for Athelstan’s reign, 62;
relation of, to Asser and Chron., 62;
his assertion that Alfred translated part of the Psalter, 147-50;
librarian of Malmesbury, 150;
his account of Alfred’s Boethius translation, 188-9.