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Burgh-upon-Sands, Edward I. dies at, ii. 174

"Burghers," i. 315

Burgos, siege of, viii. 200

Burgoyne, General, viii. 25, 26

Burgundy, Philip I., Duke of, ii. 265

Burgundy, Philip II., Duke of, ii. 286; iii. 5, 6, 12, 14

Burgundy, Philip III., Duke of, alliance with Henry V., iii. 35; relations with Brabant, 42, 43, 45; withdraws his troops from siege of Orleans, 46; sells Jeanne d'Arc to the English, 53; joins Charles VII., 56, 122; cedes Picardy to Lewis XI., 122; mediates between Lewis and Edward, ib.; dies, 130

Burgundy, John, Duke of, iii. 16, 17; relations with England and France, 23, 24, 32; assassinated, 35

Burgundy, Charles the Bold, Duke of. See Charles

Burgundy, Mary of, iii. 146, 147, 150, 151, 170

"Burh," the old English, i. 294

Burke, Edmund, vii. 332-337; supports the Declaratory Act, 338; attacks the Chatham ministry, 341; his scheme for reform of the constituencies, viii. 10; his proposals for conciliating America rejected, 20; his bill of Economical Reform, 64, 76; refuses office under Shelburne, 65; attitude towards the French Revolution, 87, 89; share in the impeachment of Hastings, 90; Reflections, ib.; quarrel with Fox, 92, 93; Appeal from the new to the old Whigs, 93; supports the government against France, 104; Letters on a Regicide Peace, 116; death, 126

Burleigh, William Cecil, Lord (see Cecil), iv. 352; protests against expulsion of Puritan clergy, 342; his tract on The Execution of Justice, 5; his ill-will to Spenser, v. 12; death, 63

Burley, Sir Simon, ii. 353

Burnet, Gilbert, vi. 169; bishop of Salisbury, vii. 65; his History of his own Time, vi. 157

Burns, Robert, viii. 46

Burton, Annals of, i. 273

Burton, John, v. 329

Burton, Thomas, his Diary, v. 37

Busaco, battle of, viii. 190

Bute, John Stuart, third Earl of, vii. 302, 303; Prime Minister, 306; policy towards America, 310, 311; fall, 314

Butler, Joseph, vi. 169

Butler, Samuel, vi. 162

Butler, the king's, origin of his office, i. 132

Buttington, battle of, i. 117

Byng, Admiral, vii. 248

Byron, Commodore, vii. 277

"Cabal," the, vi. 246, 303

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