Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879), author of books on medieval warfare and architecture, cited, 6 ; illustrations from, 76, 80, 253, 299, 311, 316 ; note on 256, 257

Virgil's AEneid, cited, 225

Virgins of Sablon, 230

Vitellius, Roman emperor battering engines used by, 269

Vitruvius Pollio (b. about B.C. 80), Roman architect, engineer, and military writer, note on,, 256 ; referred to, 312

Vogelschiessen, Dresden crossbowmen and, 233

Vogelwiese, bird field at Dresden, 231n.

Walrond, Colonel, Henry, curious crossbow in possession of, 128

Waring, T.,  author of a treatise on archery, 1814 ; at shooting contest with Turk, 27 ; and bullet shooting crossbow, 179

Warwick, Earl of, handguns used by troops of at the battle of St. Albans (1461), 39

Wedges : used in fixing bow of crossbow to the stock, 105 ; with bastard string, 187

Weimar, Duke of, inferiority of handgun used by soldiers of at battle of Wittenmergen (1638), 39

Wheatley,  Henry K, editor of Evelyn's Diary, alluded to, 236n.

Wheel lock gun, description and mode of using 41, 42

Whiston (1677-1752) , translator of Josephus, 267

William II., employment of crossbowmen by, 45 ; allusion to death of, 45

William of Poitou (1020-1090), historian, cited, 45 and n.

Willis, R, translator of Honneeourt, 314 n.

Windlass, the, 71 ; position of on crossbow, 121 ; how to use, 124 ; rate of movement, 134

Windlass crossbow, early allusions to, 90

Wittenmergen, dilatory firing at battle of (1638), 39

Wood, A., author of Bowman's Glory (1682), quoted, 21n.

Yorkshire, arrow throwing in West Riding of, 243 and n.

Zonaras, Byzantine historian (d. about 1130), cited, 290n.

Zouche, Lord (11th), mishap with a crossbow to Archbishop Abbot in park of (1621), 52