Ballad on Cheshire Cheese, 211. Banbury Cakes, history of, 245. Banbury Cakes for the Judges, 249. Banbury Cheese, 210, 249. Banbury Cross, 250. Banbury _Zeal_ and _Veal_, 246. Bankes, Lady, her Defence of Corfe Castle, 86. Banquets of Princes and Nobles, 162. Battle of Bosworth Field, 300. Battle of Hastings described, 295. Battle of Hastings, Memorial of, in Normandy, 297. Battle of Tewkesbury described, 299. Battle of Towton described, 298. Baynard's Castle and Richard III., 304. Beadle, duties of the, 233. Bedford Castle, Siege of, 79. Bed, Standing and Truckle, 177. Beds, olden varieties of, 177, 178. Beer and Ale, distinction of, 213. Beer, the national English Drink, 215. Beltane superstition, 226. Birds, Keeping, in the Middle Ages, 264. Biscuits, olden, 200. Black Boy Inn, Chelmsford, at Plantagenet lodge, 304. Blankets, origin of, 178. Boleyn, Anne, at Battersea, 351. Bolingbroke House taken down, 345. Bolingbroke, Lord, at Battersea, 343. Bolingbroke, Lord, death of, 344. Boon-days, Love-days, and Law-days, 224. Bordars and Cottars, 219. Bosphrennis Bee-hive Huts, 4. Bosworth Field described, 300. Bowles, Canon, and Windsor Castle, 94, 95. Brambletye House, account of, 132. Bread, early varieties of, 192. Bread, Saxon, 65. Brewing in Monasteries and Colleges, 67. Brigantes, Houses of, 5. Brindswood, curious Tenure, 358. Britain before the Roman Colonization, 8. Britain, early Exports of, 21. British Caves in Cornwall, 213. British Ships, early, 23. British War-chiefs, 22. Britons, early, Dwelling-places of, 1. Brooke, Mr., his _Visits to Battle-fields_, 299, 311. Brougham, Lord, on Lord Bolingbroke, 344, 350. Buckhurst Hill, 361.