Bede, 2, 5, 5 _n._, 10, 10 _n._, 172, 252, 254 _n._ Behn, Mrs. Afra, early novelist, 258 Beket, Thos. à, educated at Merton priory, 44 _n._ Benedict XI., 143 _n._, 144 _n._, XII. 127, 144 _n._ Benjamin the Jew, his house in Cambridge, 21 _n._ Benson, abp., confers Lambeth degree, 194 _n._ Bentley, 347 _n._ Ric., 126, 135, 139, 174, 175 _n._, 176, 191, 219 _n._, 245 Betham, Edw., fellow of King’s, his letter to Cole, 212 Beverley, John of, 2, 172 Bill, Wm., bp., v.-c., 139, 274 _n._ Billingford, Ric., chr., 205 _n._ Bilney, Thos., 80, 275, 275 _n._ Bingham, 347 _n._, & see _Byngham_ Blomfield, bp., 239 Blount, Chas., the deist, 279 Bodichon, Barbara L. S., 317 _n._, 318 _n._, 319, 320, 327 _n._ Boleyn, 102 _n._ Anne, 102, 102 _n._, Henry, 102 _n._, Wm., 102 _n._ Bolingbroke, Ld., the deist, 279 Bonham-Carter, Mrs., 347 Boniface IX., 204 Bonner, bp., 273 _n._ Bonney, T. G., 318 _n._, 329 _n._ Booth, Laurence, abp., chr., 74, 76 _n._, 154, 260, 347 _n._ Boquel, Lucien, 329 _n._ Bossuet, has Sherlock for opponent, 60 Bottlesham, John de, bp. of Rochester, M. of Peterhouse (1397-1400), 58 Bowling, E. W., 349, 349 _n._ Boyle, earl of Cork, 85, 260, Robt., Royal Soc., 284 Bradford, John, 75, 275 Bramhall, Protestant abp. of Armagh, 147 Brandon, 296, 297, 297 _n._, 301 Charles, 1st & 3rd dukes of Suffolk 106, Henry, 2nd duke 106 Brantingham, bp., 27 Braybrooke, see _Neville_ Brodrick, abp., 66 Brontë, Charlotte & Emily, 257 Brooke, see _Greville_ Brown, Ford Madox, 57 _n._ Browne, Robert, of Corpus, 278, 303, Sir Thos., letter to, from Christ’s, Coll., 180, Sir Wm., 61, 245, 260, 268 Browning, Robert, 251 Brownrigg, Ralph, bp., M. of Catherine’s, v.-c., 115, 264 Bruce, Robert, 69 Bryan, 302 Augustine, 175 _n._, John, 174 _n._ Bucer, Martin, 60 Buckingham, see _Stafford & Villiers_ Buckle, H. T., 251 Bullock, 347 _n._ Henry, v.-c., 111, 170 _n._, 174 _n._ Bunyan, 251, 253, 254 _n._ Burgh, de, 291, 292, 293, 296, 297 Elizabeth de, see _Clare_, Elizabeth jnr., _domina Claræ_, dss. of Clarence, 95, 295 _n._, 297 _n._, 298, Hubert, earl of Kent, 293, 295, 298, John, chr., 203 _n._, 293, John, bp. of Ely, 293, John, 3rd earl of Ulster, 64 _n._, 293, 298, Ric. 2nd earl of Ulster, the ‘red earl’, 64 _n._, 320 _n._, Ric. ‘the great earl of Clanricarde’, 301, Thos., 293, William, last earl of Ulster, 297 _n._, 298 Burke, Edmund, 268, 309 Burleigh, see _Cecil_ Burn, Rev. R., 318 _n._ Burnet, bp. (quoted), 284 _n._ Buss, Miss, 335 _n._ Butler, bp., 251 Butler ‘of Cambridge,’ 260 Butts, Sir Wm., _M.D._, 296 Byng, Thos. v.-c., 180 _n._ Byngham, 306, 307 _n._ Thos. 1st M. of Pembroke 306, Wm., founder of God’s House 117 _n._, 150, 153, 165 _n._, 306, (quoted) 165 _n._, Wm. proc. 306 Byron, lord, 139, 163, 255, 308, (quoted) 7, 182 _n._ Caedmon, 2 Caesar, 4