Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount (_see_ St. John), vii. 140; his scheme of a treaty of commerce, 142; rivalry with Harley, 143; his Schism Bill, _ib._; appoints Jacobites to office, 145; flies to the Pretender, 168; becomes his Secretary of State, 183; returns to England, 204; withdraws again, _ib._ Bologna, University of, i. 282 Bombay ceded to England, vi. 192; vii. 232 Boniface, St., letters of, i. 4 Boniface VIII., Pope, ii. 163, 170, 217, 224 Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 32, 72 Bonner, Bishop of London, iv. 74, 89, 95, 97; sets up Bibles in St. Paul's, v. 82 Bordeaux, Parliament of Gascony at, ii. 285; Richard II. born at, 306; surrenders to Charles VII., iii. 68, 71 Born, Bertrand de, i. 263 Borodino, battle of, viii. 200 Boroughbridge, battle of, ii. 195 Boroughs, their developement after Norman Conquest, i. 177; "farm" of, ii. 152; representation in Parliament, 73, 121, 152-154; reluctance to attend, 155; restriction of franchise in, iii. 99-101; new, created under the Tudors, iv. 234, 235; change in character of their representatives, 234, 235; qualification of members for, 235; the Five, i. 117, 120. _See_ Towns Borough-moot, the, i. 296 Boscawen, Admiral, vii. 266 Boston, outrage of barons on merchants at, ii. 116 Boston (Massachusetts), its foundation, v. 310, 311; occupied by British troops, viii. 14; tea-riots at, 17, 18; siege of, 22, 23 Bosworth Field, battle of, iii. 172 Bothwell, James Hepburn, Earl of, iv. 226, 229; plots against Darnley, 242, 243; contrives his death, 244; charged with murder, _ib._; marries Mary, 245; flies, 246 Boulogne captured by Henry VIII., iv. 30; restored to France, 33, 57; Napoleon's camp at, viii. 170, 171 Bourbon, Cardinal of, iv. 348, 369, 372 Bourbon, Charles, Duke of, iii. 246, 247, 269 Bouvines, battle of, i. 342; besieged by Flemings, ii. 234 Bow, the English, ii. 241, 242 Boxley, miraculous rood at, iii. 343 Boyle, Robert, vi. 166 Boyne, battle of the, vii. 71 "Boys," the, vii. 204, 226, 249 Brabant, John III., Duke of, ii. 227, 244 Brabant, John IV., Duke of, iii. 42, 43, 45 Brackley, barons meet at, i. 346 Braddock, General, vii. 245 Bradford on Avon, battle of, i. 87 Bradford, John, iv. 132 Bradshaw, John, vi. 66, 91, 101; outrage on his corpse, 201 Bradwardine, Thomas, ii. 276 Bramber, Sir Nicholas, ii. 353 Bramham Moor, battle of, iii. 19 Brandywine, battle of, viii. 25 Braose, William de, i. 332 Breauté, Faukes de, ii. 4, 5 Brecknock stormed by Æthelflæd, i. 118; Mortimer routed at, ii. 88 Breda, Declaration of, vi. 152; Treaty of, 241, 243, 247 Breitenfeld, battle of, v. 275 Bremen, quarrel about, vii. 188, 189 Brentford captured by Prince Rupert, vi. 3