_Bishops_, of England, their reply to petition of the Commons, iv. 13, 14; the reply criticised, 15; resist attack on their privileges, 17; their subterfuge, 18; alliance with the king against reformers, 72; attempt to impose on lower clergy the payment promised to the king, 73 _sqq._; begin persecution of Lutherans, 77; submit to the king, 89; their oath at consecration, 89; renounce orders of the pope prejudicial to the king, 90; election of, regulated, 180; declare the papacy a human invention, 181; suspension of their jurisdiction, v. 83; decline to answer German envoys, viii. 156; find a compromise impossible, 180, 181; protest against referring the translation of the Bible to the universities, 257 _Bishops_, government by, i. 284, 285; arguments for temporal power, iii. 452 _Bishops_ in Denmark, excluded from the Diet, vii. 220 '_Bishop's Book_,' the, viii. 261 _Blancherose_, physician, takes part in disputation at Lausanne, vi. 242, 245, 250, 253, 254 _Blanchet_, i. 69; his adventures, 109; imprisoned at Turin, 114; his examination, 115; tortured, 116, 121; sentenced to death, 122; beheaded, 123; treatment of his remains, 123, 124; agitation in Geneva, 124, 127, 182 _Blois_, Roussel and Lefèvre at, i. 363; a 'placard' on the king's door, iii. 106 _Bockhold_ [_John of Leyden_] _Bocking_, Friar, instigates imposture of Maid of Kent, v. 8, 9; before Star Chamber, 15 _Bocquet_, Christopher, preaches at Geneva, iii. 329; again, 336, 353; ordered to leave Geneva, 354 _Boehmer_, Edward, his researches on the brothers Valder, iv. 457 _note_, 467 _note_ _Bohemia_, the Reformation in, vii. 417; the Calixtines, 417; the Taborites, 417 _Boiling to death_, penalty for poisoning, iv. 68 _Bois-le-Duc_, martyrs at, vii. 537 _Boisseau de la Borderie_, Jean, iii. 46 _Bologna_, Conference of, ii. 142 _sqq._; another congress, iv. 22; meeting of Clement VII. and Charles V., 126; beginning of reformation at, 451; address of evangelicals to John of Planitz, 452 _Bologna_, University of, appealed to by Henry VIII. on his divorce, iv. 40; the judgment, 41 _Boniface VIII._, Pope, ii. 461 _Boniface_, Cardinal bishop of Ivrea, arrests Curione and his friends, iv. 416