doctor of music was conferred upon him in 1893 by the university of Cambridge. BOIVIN, FRANCOIS DE, Baron de Villars (d. 1618), French chronicler, entered the service of Charles, Marshal Brissac, as secretary, and accompanied him to Piedmont in 1550 when the marshal went to take command of the French troops in the war with Spain. Remaining in this service he was sent after the defeat of the French at St Quentin in 1557 to assure the French king Henry II. of the support of Brissac. He took part in the negotiations which led to the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis in April 1559, but was unable to prevent Henry II. from ceding the conquests made by Brissac. Boivin wrote _Memoires sur les guerres demelees tant dans le Piemont qu'au Montferrat et duche de Milan par Charles de Cosse, comte de Brissac_ (Paris, 1607), which, in spite of some drawbacks, is valuable as the testimony of an eye-witness of the war. An edition, carefully revised, appears in the _Memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France_, tome x., edited by J.F. Michaud and J.J.F. Poujoulat (Paris, 1850). He also wrote _Instruction sur les affaires d'etat_ (Lyons, 1610). See J. Lelong, _Bibliotheque historique de la France_ (Paris, 1768-1778). BOKENAM, OSBERN (1393?-1447?), English author, was born, by his own account, on the 6th of October 1393. Dr Horstmann suggests that he may have been a native of Bokeham, now Bookham, in Surrey, and derived his name from the place. In a concluding note to his _Lives of the Saints_ he is described as "a Suffolke man, frere Austyn of Stoke Clare." He travelled in Italy on at least two occasions, and in 1445 was a pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela. He wrote a series of thirteen legends of holy maidens and women. These are written chiefly in seven-and eight-lined stanzas, and nine of them are preceded by prologues. Bokenam was a follower of Chaucer and Lydgate, and doubtless had in mind Chaucer's _Legend of Good Women_. His chief, but by no means his only, source was the _Legenda Aurea_ of Jacobus de Voragine, archbishop of Genoa, whom he cites as "Januence." The first of the legends, _Vita Scae Margaretae, virginis et martiris_, was written for his friend, Thomas Burgh, a Cambridge monk; others are dedicated to pious ladies who desired the history of their name-saints. The Arundel MS. 327 (British Museum) is a unique copy of Bokenam's work; it was finished, according to the concluding note, in 1447, and presented by the scribe, Thomas Burgh, to a convent unnamed "that the nuns may remember him and his sister, Dame Betrice Burgh." The poems were edited (1835) for the Roxburghe Club with the title _Lyvys of Seyntys_ ..., and by Dr Carl Horstmann as _Osbern Bokenams Legenden_ (Heilbronn, 1883), in E. Kolbing's _Altengl. Bibliothek_, vol. i. Both editions include a dialogue written in Latin and English taken from Dugdale's _Monasticon Anglicanum_ (ed. 1846, vol. vi. p. 1600); "this dialogue betwixt a Secular asking and a Frere