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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