Beverley, peasant revolt at, ii. 324 Bible, Wyclif's translation of, ii. 178, 343; Tyndale's, iii. 259-261; its circulation forbidden, 290; Coverdale's, 334, 335; misuse of, 344; its popularity, v. 82; literary influence, 83, 84; social influence, 84, 85; religious influence, 85; the Geneva, iv. 128; forbidden, v. 296 "Bible-men," iii. 96 Bidassoa, battle on the, viii. 202 Bigod, Hugh, first Earl of Norfolk, i. 254 Bigod, Roger, second Earl of Norfolk, i. 343 Bigod, Roger, fourth Earl of Norfolk, ii. 45 Bigod, Roger, fifth Earl of Norfolk, ii. 164-166 Bigod, Hugh, Justiciar, ii. 60, 64, 66 Bigorre restored to Edward III., ii. 266 Billericay, villagers of, resist Richard II., ii. 332 Bilney, Thomas, iii. 262 Birinus, St., bishop in Wessex, i. 71 Birmingham, its rise, vii. 196 Bishoprics, new, erected under Henry VIII., iv. 13 Bishops excluded from State offices, ii. 302; denounce Oldcastle and the Lollards, iii. 27; mode of appointment, 307, 308; position under Henry VIII., 308; under Edward VI., _ib._, iv. 60; proposal to exclude them from the House of Lords, v. 354, 355, 371; excluded, 377; restored, vi. 204; position under the Georges, vii. 171, 172; the Seven, 30, 31; in Scotland, their position under Knox, v. 137; abolished, 140; restored, 143, 166, 167 "Bishops' War," the, v. 341-343 _Black Book_, the, of 1536, iii. 310 Black Death, the, ii. 252-254, 266, 288; its social results, 254, 255 Blackfriars, Council at, ii. 339; trial of Henry VIII.'s divorce at, iii. 276; first public theatre at, v. 22 Blacklow Hill, Gaveston beheaded on, ii. 190 Blake, Robert, his defence of Taunton, vi. 78; commands the fleet against Rupert, _ib._; fights with Tromp and Ruyter, 86, 88; bombards Algiers, 116; victory at Santa Cruz, 124; outrage on his corpse, 201 Blanchard, Alan, iii. 33, 34 Blanche of Bourbon, wife of Pedro of Castille, ii. 282 Blanche-Taque, ford of, ii. 236 Blenheim, battle of, vii. 120-122 Blois, Charles of, claimant of Britanny, ii. 233, 248 Blondel, _De Reductione Normanniæ_, ii. 179 "Bloody Circuit," the, vii. 10, 11 Bloreheath, battle of, iii. 74 Blount, Sir Thomas, ii. 200 Blücher, Marshal, viii. 207, 210 Boat, an Old English, found in Sleswick, i. 27, 28 "Boatmen" of London, i. 308 Bohemia, Protestant rising in, v. 216-219 Bohun, Henry de, first Earl of Hereford, i. 343 Bohun, Humfrey de, third Earl of Hereford, ii. 164, 166 Bohun, Henry de, ii. 192 Boleyn, Anne, iii. 267, 270, 273, 288; marries Henry VIII., 303; crowned, _ib._; beheaded, 323 Boleyn, George, iii. 267 Boleyn, Sir Thomas, iii. 267, 268. _See_ Wiltshire Bolinbroke, Roger, iii. 58