Part 15

Brice's day, St., massacre of, i. 141

Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, vi. 184

Bridgewater, John Egerton, first Earl of, v. 305

Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, third Duke of, viii. 55

Brigham, treaty of, ii. 135

Brihtnoth, ealdorman of East-Anglia, i. 139

Brindley, James, viii. 55, 56

Bristol, its slave-trade, i. 250; surrender to Henry of Lancaster, iii. 18; Protestant martyrs at, iv. 96; trade with Ireland, 282; surrender to Rupert, vi. 12; to the Parliament, 41; prosperity under Walpole, vii. 196

Bristol, George Digby, second Earl of, vi. 221

Britain, its condition under the Romans, i. 29, 30; legions withdrawn from, 31; attacked by Picts, Scots and Saxons, ib.; becomes England, 39, 138; English conquest of, its peculiar character, 39-44; authorities for, 3

Britain, Great, United Kingdom of, vii. 128

Britanny submits to William the Conqueror, i. 158; war of succession in, ii. 233, 248; coast harried by an English fleet, iii. 16; relations with France and England, 166, 171, 179, 180

Britanny, Anne of, iii. 179, 180

Britanny, John, Duke of, ii. 315

Britons defeated by Jutes in Kent, i. 33; their stubborn resistance, 40-42; alliance with Penda, 66; of Cumbria, defeated by Æthelfrith, 60, 61; by Ecgfrith, 87; of Strathclyde, their struggle with Æthelfrith, 60; submit to Eadward the Elder, 119

Broc, Ranulf de, i. 241

Broglie, General, vii. 264

Brooke, Robert Greville, second Lord, v. 320, 354; vi. 7

Brooklyn, battle of, viii. 24

Brothers of the Pen, iii. 154

Brown, Robert, v. 117

Brown, William, martyr under Mary, iv. 95

Browne, Archbishop of Dublin, iii. 341, 342; iv. 62, 63

Browne, William, his Pastorals, v. 304

Brownists, v. 117, 308

Bruce, David, ii. 206; king of Scotland, 210; driven out, 211, 212; goes to France, 213; returns, 214, 229; prisoner, 243; released, 263; dies, 286

Bruce, Edward, ii. 376

Bruce, Robert, claimant of Scotland, ii. 136