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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, Bishop of London, iv. 74, 89, 95, 97; sets up Bibles in St. Paul's, v. 82

Bordeaux, Parliament of Gascony at, ii. 285; Richard II. born at, 306; surrenders to Charles VII., iii. 68, 71

Born, Bertrand de, i. 263

Borodino, battle of, viii. 200

Boroughbridge, battle of, ii. 195

Boroughs, their developement after Norman Conquest, i. 177; "farm" of, ii. 152; representation in Parliament, 73, 121, 152-154; reluctance to attend, 155; restriction of franchise in, iii. 99-101; new, created under the Tudors, iv. 234, 235; change in character of their representatives, 234, 235; qualification of members for, 235; the Five, i. 117, 120. See Towns

Borough-moot, the, i. 296

Boscawen, Admiral, vii. 266

Boston, outrage of barons on merchants at, ii. 116

Boston (Massachusetts), its foundation, v. 310, 311; occupied by British troops, viii. 14; tea-riots at, 17, 18; siege of, 22, 23

Bosworth Field, battle of, iii. 172

Bothwell, James Hepburn, Earl of, iv. 226, 229; plots against Darnley, 242, 243; contrives his death, 244; charged with murder, ib.; marries Mary, 245; flies, 246

Boulogne captured by Henry VIII., iv. 30; restored to France, 33, 57; Napoleon's camp at, viii. 170, 171

Bourbon, Cardinal of, iv. 348, 369, 372

Bourbon, Charles, Duke of, iii. 246, 247, 269

Bouvines, battle of, i. 342; besieged by Flemings, ii. 234

Bow, the English, ii. 241, 242

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