308;
position under Henry VIII., 308;
under Edward VI., _ib._, iv. 60;
proposal to exclude them from the House of Lords, v. 354, 355, 371;
excluded, 377;
restored, vi. 204;
position under the Georges, vii. 171, 172;
the Seven, 30, 31;
in Scotland, their position under Knox, v. 137;
abolished, 140;
restored, 143, 166, 167

"Bishops' War," the, v. 341-343

_Black Book_, the, of 1536, iii. 310

Black Death, the, ii. 252-254, 266, 288;
its social results, 254, 255

Blackfriars,
Council at, ii. 339;
trial of Henry VIII.'s divorce at, iii. 276;
first public theatre at, v. 22

Blacklow Hill, Gaveston beheaded on, ii. 190

Blake, Robert,
his defence of Taunton, vi. 78;
commands the fleet against Rupert, _ib._;
fights with Tromp and Ruyter, 86, 88;
bombards Algiers, 116;
victory at Santa Cruz, 124;
outrage on his corpse, 201

Blanchard, Alan, iii. 33, 34

Blanche of Bourbon, wife of Pedro of Castille, ii. 282

Blanche-Taque, ford of, ii. 236

Blenheim, battle of, vii. 120-122

Blois, Charles of, claimant of Britanny, ii. 233, 248

Blondel, _De Reductione Normanniae_, ii. 179

"Bloody Circuit," the, vii. 10, 11

Bloreheath, battle of, iii. 74

Blount, Sir Thomas, ii. 200

Bluecher, Marshal, viii. 207, 210

Boat, an Old English, found in Sleswick, i. 27, 28

"Boatmen" of London, i. 308

Bohemia, Protestant rising in, v. 216-219

Bohun, Henry de, first Earl of Hereford, i. 343

Bohun, Humfrey de, third Earl of Hereford, ii. 164, 166

Bohun, Henry de, ii. 192

Boleyn, Anne, iii. 267, 270, 273, 288;
marries Henry VIII., 303;
crowned, _ib._;
beheaded, 323

Boleyn, George, iii. 267

Boleyn, Sir Thomas, iii. 267, 268.
_See_ Wiltshire

Bolinbroke, Roger, iii. 58

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount (_see_ St. John), vii. 140;
his scheme of a treaty of commerce, 142;
rivalry with Harley, 143;
his Schism Bill, _ib._;
appoints Jacobites to office, 145;
flies to the Pretender, 168;
becomes his Secretary of State, 183;
returns to England, 204;
withdraws again, _ib._

Bologna, University of, i. 282

Bombay ceded to England, vi. 192; vii. 232

Boniface, St., letters of, i. 4

Boniface VIII., Pope, ii. 163, 170, 217, 224

Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 32, 72

Bonner,