index 461 Tunnage and poundage, 400, note 4, 406 and note 2 U Universities, 231 and note i, 233 Uses, 221-224; Statute of, 224, note V Vestry, 333 Veto power, 291, note 2, 419, 420 and note 2, 432, note 4 Vill, see Township Villa, Roman, 6, n, 43, note 2 Villeins, 43 and note 2, 44; after the Conquest, 91-94, 101, 102, note 4, 106, 108, 109, 151; in the manor courts, 190; passing of, 192-195, 215, note i, 327, 388 W Wages, of justices of the peace, 205; of councillors, 299, 300; paid to representatives in Parliament, 387 and note i 'Wapentake, 14 Wardrobe, the king's, 52, 124, 306, 318-323 Wardship, feudal, 120, 121 and note i Wer, 24 and note i William I., 51, 81-85; Ft II, passim; 153-156, 242-244, 255- 259, 266, note i, 306, 312, 325, 338, 411 William II, 89, 90, 100, 104, 126, *39, *59» note i, 258-261, 261, note i, 267, 269 Witan, 4, 50; general account of, Pt. I, § I, 3, b; 61, 1x6, 117 and note i, 119, 141 Wife, 24 and note 2, 40 Witnesses, in Anglo-Saxon proced- ure, 20-23, 25, 67, 154 and note 4, 155; after Conquest, 327, 329; modern, origin of, 164, note 2, 167, 168 and notes i and 2 Writs, 142-144; of right, 142, 148; of pracipe, 142, 148 and note 5, 212, note 2; in general, 151, 152 and notes 2 and 3; Writ Quo Warranto, 188 and note 2, 279; creation of, limited, 212 (and note 2)-2i4; see Chancery, as secre- tariat Year Books, 233, note I, 234 and note 4, 235,291, note I York, 5; becomes seat of archbishop, 60 and note 2, 61; effect of Danish invasions upon, 63, 64, 129; rela- tions of archbishop of, with arch- bishop of Canterbury settled after Conquest, 129 and notes 2 and 3; House of, on the throne, 290 and note 3, 304, 427, 445,447; city of, receives organization of shire, 395, note 2 Young's case, 444, 445