Large pears. Cavendish describes Wolsey as eating roasted wardens at the moment in which he was seized with his fatal illness. "It came to pass at a certain season sitting at dinner in his own chamber, having at his boards end that same day, as he divers times had to accompany him, a mess of the Earls' gentlemen and chaplains, and eating of roasted wardens at the end of his dinner, before whom I stood at the table, dressing of those wardens for him, beholding of him I perceived his colour often to change," &c. Ed. Singer, 1825, vol. i. p. 300. In a poem written by Lydgate temp. Henry VI. he thus alludes to Wardens.
"Eke othere frutes, whiche that more common be,
Quenyngges, peches, costardes, and wardens."
Illustrations to a Chronicle of London, 4to. 1827, p. 245.
Warden Lord, [of the Cinque Ports] 267.
Washing the Chapel, stuff for, [93].
---- for, [234].
Waters [probably sweet] brought, [5].
---- sweet, brought, [5], [15].
---- bailiff of London, [37].
Watermen, to the king's, [3], [4], [6], [8], [10], [11], bis, [12], [22], [24], [25], [29], [45], bis, [46], [47], bis, [54], [55], sæpe, [59], bis, [78], [79], [87], [90], [96], sæpe, [112], [114], [118], [119], [120], [122], [127], bis, [128], bis, [134], [136], [139], bis, [140], [142], bis, [164], [171], [174], [175], [177], [179], sæpe, [180], [182], sæpe, [192], bis, [195], [201], ter, [208], [211], [215], [217], [219], bis, [228], [229], [251], bis, [252], [258], [260], bis, [262], bis, [277], [278], [279], [286], [291].