Beaufort, Henry, Bishop of Winchester, chancellor, iii. 25, 43; struggle with Humphrey of Gloucester, 44; Cardinal and Legate, _ib._; supports Bedford, 55; retires, 59 Beaufort, John. _See_ Somerset Beaufort, Margaret, iii. 165, 166, 172 Beaujeu, Anne of, iii. 170, 171 Beaumont, Henry I.'s palace of, at Oxford, i. 284, 307 Bec, school of, i. 159 Beckford, Alderman, vii. 256 Bedford reduced by Eadward the Elder, i. 119; castle of, besieged by Hubert de Burgh, ii. 5 Bedford, John, Duke of, iii. 38; regent of France, 39; alliance with Burgundy, _ib._; victories in France, _ib._, 40; difficulties, 44, 45; rule in Normandy, 55; death, 56 Bedford, John Russell, first Earl of, iv. 47. _See_ Russell Bedford, Francis Russell, fourth Earl of, v. 358 Bedford, William Russell, fifth Earl of, vi. 1 Bedford, John Russell, fourth Duke of, vii. 242, 315, 317; viii. 4, 16 Bedloe, William, vi. 297 Beket, Gilbert, i. 225, 303 Beket, Thomas, i. 225; agent of Archbishop Theobald, 226; chancellor, 232; Archbishop of Canterbury, 235; rejects Constitutions of Clarendon, 236; at council of Northampton, 237; flight, _ib._; struggle with Henry II., 239; returns to England, 240; murdered, 241; canonized, _ib._; Henry's penance at his shrine, 255; his shrine desecrated, iii. 344 Belesme, Robert of, i. 201, 202; ii. 47 Bellahoe, battle of, iii. 329 Bellasys, John, first Lord, vi. 256, 296; vii. 20 Bellingham, Sir Edward, iv. 110 Bellingham, John, viii. 196 Benedict XII., Pope, ii. 218, 219 Benedict Biscop, i. 79, 91, 92 "Benedict of Peterborough," i. 174, 244 "Benevolences" under Edward IV., iii. 152; declared illegal, 168; levied again, 171, 177; extension under Wolsey, 244, 251; resisted, 251, 252; again demanded, iv. 34; demanded by James I., v. 197, 198, 229; by Charles I., 253 Bengal, Clive's successes in, vii. 261 Bennet, Henry, vi. 221. _See_ Arlington Bensington, battle of, i. 98 Bentham, Jeremy, viii. 195 Beorn, nephew of Earl Godwine, i. 150, 151 Beornwulf, king of Mercia, i. 102 _Beowulf, Song of_, i. 24-26 Bergerac taken by Henry of Derby, ii. 234 Berkeley Castle, Edward II. murdered in, ii. 200 Berkley, Sir Robert, v. 331, 351 Berlin Decree, Napoleon's, viii. 176 Bernicia conquered by the English, i. 52; by Eadwine, 62; recalls the line of Æthelfrith, 66; struggle against Penda, 71, 72 Bernicians conquer Deira, i. 52, 53 Bertha of Paris, wife of Æthelberht of Kent, i. 57 Berwick stormed by Edward I., ii. 160, 161; Parliament at, 162; captured by Bruce, 194; by Edward III., ii. 211, 212; its peculiar political position, 212; recaptured by the Scots, 259, 263; Pacification at, v. 337 Berwick, James FitzJames, Duke of, vii. 119, 134