Assize of Arms, i. 257; of Clarendon, 238; of the Forest, 267; of Northampton, 255 Astley, Sir Jacob, vi. 42 Aston, Sir Arthur, vi. 76 Athelney, Ælfred at, i. 106; abbey at, 114 Athenree, battle of, ii. 376 Athlone captured by the English, iii. 329 Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester, vii. 167 Audley, James Touchet, Lord, iii. 74 Aughrim, battle of, vii. 73 Augsburg, conference at, iv. 21; treaty of, vii. 27 Augustine, St., Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 57-59 Austerlitz, battle of, viii. 173 Australia, vii. 278 Austria, Charles, Archduke of, iv. 193, 195 Austria, Don John of, iv. 310-312 Auxerre, battle near, iii. 39 Avaux, Count of, vii. 59 Avesbury, Robert of, ii. 177 Avignon, the Popes at, ii. 216, 217, 221, 224 Avowal, the, v. 268 Avranches taken by Henry V., iii. 33 Axholme, the Disinherited at, ii. 84, 85 Aylesford, battle of, i. 33 Aylmer, John, iv. 119 Ayrshire, rising in, vi. 62 Babington, Anthony, iv. 351, 352 Bacon, Francis, v. 46-55; his political career, 222-224; last years, 225; _Life of Henry VII._, iii. 83 Bacon, Sir Nicholas, iv. 152 Bacon, Roger, i. 293; ii. 14-19; his _Opus Majus_, 19-21 Badajoz stormed, viii. 199 Badbury, battle of, i. 34 Badby, Thomas, iii. 22 Badlesmere, Lady, ii. 195 Bæda, i. 91-95; his _History_, 4, 94 Baillie's _Letters_, v. 73 Bale, Bishop of Ossory, iv. 63, 109, 119, 128, 129 Ball, John, ii. 268, 269, 318, 319, 336 Balliol, Edward, acknowledged as king of Scots at the English court, ii. 204; seizes the crown, 210; driven out, 211; restored, 212; withdraws to England, 213, 214; resigns, 253 Balliol, John, claimant of the Scottish crown, ii. 136; king, 138; resists Edward's claim to receive appeals, 140; alliance with France, 160; defies Edward, 161; surrenders, _ib._; released and goes to France, 170 Balmerino, Arthur Elphinston, sixth Lord, vii. 230 Bamborough founded by Ida, i. 52; attacked by Penda, 71 Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, iv. 341; v. 156, 165 Bank of England founded, vii. 86; suspends specie payments, viii. 126 Bankers, foreign, in England, under Edward I., ii. 106, 107; expelled, 189 Bannockburn, battle of, ii. 192, 193 Bantry Bay, battle in, vii. 68 Baptists, rise of the, vi. 28 Barbour, John, ii. 177 Barbury Hill, battle of, i. 37 Bardolf, Thomas, Lord, iii. 18, 19 Bards, the Welsh, ii. 53, 56; iii. 11 Barebones, Praise-God, vi. 95 "Bargemen" of Oxford, i. 308 Barham Down, muster at, i. 333; ii. 74 Barillon, French ambassador in England, vi. 298 Barlow, Bishop of St. David's, iii. 336 Barnes, Robert, iii. 262 Barnet, battle of, iii. 142 _Barnwell, Annals of_, i. 174, 273