TRESILIAN, SIR ROBERT: Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, one of the primary judges in the land.
trueman, jack: a lollard priest.
TUSSER, THOMAS: steward to THOMAS NEVILLE. TYLER, WAT: a sergeant-at-arms in LANCASTER’S household.
URBAN VI: the man elected by the College of Cardinals to the papal throne after the death of Gregory XI in 1378.
VERE, ROBERT DE: Earl of Oxford, and close friend of RICHARD’s. De Vere is married to PHILIPPA, daughter of HENRY PERCY, the Earl of Northumberland. wadsworth, william: Lord Mayor of London. warwick, earl of: see beauchamp, thomas.
WESTMINSTER: in medieval England Westminster was an important municipality in its own right, and separate from London, although both were intricately linked. Most of medieval Westminster was destroyed by fire in the early nineteenth century, but it consisted of a large palace complex boasting three halls (only one of which still stands, as well the abbey.
whittington, RICHARD (DICK) a mercer and alderman of Broad Street ward in London.
wiltshire, earl of: see scrope, william.
WOODSTOCK, THOMAS OF: Earl of Buckingham and Duke of Gloucester, seventh and youngest son of EDWARD III of England; Constable of England.
WORDE, WYNKYN DE: the last of the Dominican friars who worked the archangels’ will on earth. THOMAS NEVILLE now hunts for de Worde’s lost casket.
wycliffe, JOHN: an eccentric English cleric and master of Balliol College, Oxford.