BISHOPS. The seven who refused to read the declaration of indulgence published by James II. and were by him imprisoned for recusancy, were archbishop Sancroft _(Canterbury)_, bishops Lloyd _(St. Asaph)_, Turner _(Ely)_, Kew _(Bath and Wells)_, White _(Peterborough)_, Lake _(Chichester)_, Trelawney _(Bristol)._ Being tried, they were all acquitted (June, 1688). BISTO'NIANS, the Thracians, so called from Biston (son of Mars), who built Bisto'nia on lake Bis'tonis. So the Bistonian race, a maddening train, Exult and revel on the Thracian plain. Pitt's _Statius_, ii. BIT'ELAS(3 _syl_.), sister of Fairlimb, and daughter of Rukenaw the ape, in the beast-epic called _Reynard the Fox_ (1498). BIT'TLEBRAINS _(Lord)_, friend of sir William Ashton, lord-keeper of Scotland. _Lady Bittlebrains_, wife of the above lord.--Sir W. Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (time, William III.). BIT'ZER, light porter in Bounderby's bank at Coketown. He is educated at M'Choakumchild's "practical school," and becomes a general spy and informer. Bitzer finds out the robbery of the bank, and discovers the perpetrator to be Tom Gradgrind (son of Thomas Gradgrind, Esq., M.P.), informs against him, and gets promoted to his place.--C. Dickens, _Hard Times_ (1854). BIZARRE _[Be.zar'(1)]_, the friend of Orian'a, forever coquetting and sparring with Duretete _[Dure.tait]_, and placing him in awkward predicaments.--G.K. Farquhar, _The Inconstant_ (1702). BLACK AG'NES, the countess of March, noted for her defence of Dunbar during the war which Edward III. maintained in Scotland (1333-1338). Sir Walter Scott says: "The countess was called 'Black Agnes' from her complexion. She was the daughter of Thomas Randolph, earl of Murray."--_Tales of a Grandfather_, i. 14. (See BLACK PRINCE.) BLACK COLIN CAMPBELL, general Campbell, in the army of George III., introduced by sir W. Scott in _Redgauntlet_. BLACK DOUGLAS, William Douglas, lord of Nithsdale, who died 1390. He was tall, strong, and well made, of a swarthy complexion, with dark hair, from which he was called "The Black Douglas."--Sir Walter Scott, _Tales of a Grandfather_, xi. BLACK DWARF (_The_), of sir Walter Scott, is meant for David Ritchie, whose cottage was and still is on Manor Water, in the county of Peebles. BLACK-EYED SUSAN, one of Dibdin's sea-songs. BLACK GEORGE, the gamekeeper in Fielding's novel, called _The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_ (1750). _Black George_, Greorge Petrowitsch of Servia, a brigand; called by the Turks _Kara George_, from the terror he inspired. BLACK HORSE (_The_), the 7th Dragoon Guards (_not_ the 7th Dragoons). So called because their facings (or collar and cuffs) are black velvet. Their plumes are black and white; and at one time their horses were black, or at any rate dark.