Part 8

Babington, Anthony, iv. 351, 352

Bacon, Francis, v. 46-55; his political career, 222-224; last years, 225; Life of Henry VII., iii. 83

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, iv. 152

Bacon, Roger, i. 293; ii. 14-19; his Opus Majus, 19-21

Badajoz stormed, viii. 199

Badbury, battle of, i. 34

Badby, Thomas, iii. 22

Badlesmere, Lady, ii. 195

Bæda, i. 91-95; his History, 4, 94

Baillie's Letters, v. 73

Bale, Bishop of Ossory, iv. 63, 109, 119, 128, 129

Ball, John, ii. 268, 269, 318, 319, 336

Balliol, Edward, acknowledged as king of Scots at the English court, ii. 204; seizes the crown, 210; driven out, 211; restored, 212; withdraws to England, 213, 214; resigns, 253

Balliol, John, claimant of the Scottish crown, ii. 136; king, 138; resists Edward's claim to receive appeals, 140; alliance with France, 160; defies Edward, 161; surrenders, ib.; released and goes to France, 170

Balmerino, Arthur Elphinston, sixth Lord, vii. 230

Bamborough founded by Ida, i. 52; attacked by Penda, 71

Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, iv. 341; v. 156, 165

Bank of England founded, vii. 86; suspends specie payments, viii. 126

Bankers, foreign, in England, under Edward I., ii. 106, 107; expelled, 189

Bannockburn, battle of, ii. 192, 193

Bantry Bay, battle in, vii. 68

Baptists, rise of the, vi. 28

Barbour, John, ii. 177

Barbury Hill, battle of, i. 37

Bardolf, Thomas, Lord, iii. 18, 19

Bards, the Welsh, ii. 53, 56; iii. 11

Barebones, Praise-God, vi. 95

"Bargemen" of Oxford, i. 308