_Bailiffs_, first established in Normandy under Philip Augustus, _Baiocco of Naples_, named after Bayeux, _Bas-relief_, in the church of St. Georges de Bocherville, _Baudius_, professor of law for a short time at Caen, _Bayeux_, seat of an academy of Druids, Roman relics found near, but no Druidic, a Roman station, probably the Næomagus Viducassium, its ancient name, its importance under the early French kings, its history, the place where the Norman princes were educated, castle, situation, population, and trade, tapestry, cathedral, _Bayeux, Roman_, probably destroyed by the Saxons, _Bec, abbey of_, its present state, former income and patronage, church described by Du Plessis, founded by Hellouin, history, seminary for eminent men, _Belenus_, worshipped near Bayeux, _Berengarius_, his tenets impugned by Lanfranc, condemned by the council of Brionne, _Bernay_, abbey of, church, burial-ground, population and trade, costume of the females, _Bernieres_, church of, _Blanche, wife of Charles the Bel_, confined in Château Gaillard, _Bochart_, one of the founders of the academy at Caen, _Boileau_, his eulogium on Malherbe, _Bonport_, abbey of, _Borghese, Princess of_, original letter by, _Bouillon, Duke of_, Lord of Evreux, at the revolution, _Bourg-Achard_, seat of an abbey, dedicated to St. Eustatius, leaden font, _Bourg-Theroude_, _Bourgueville_, his antiquities of Caen, present at the exhumation of the Conqueror's remains, _Boy, bishop_, annually elected at Caen, _Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse_, church of, _Brionne_, situation of, seat of the council which condemned the tenets of Berengarius, castle, _Brito_, his account of the siege of Gournay, of Château Gaillard, of the murder of the French garrison of Evreux, of Caen. _Broglie_, church of. _Bruce, David_, a resident in Château Gaillard. _Buck-wheat_, much cultivated in Lower Normandy, etymology of its French name. C.