Begbie, Alison, 69-70, 189 Begg, Isabella Burns, 147 _Bell_, West-Indiaman, 192-193 Benson, Anna Dorothea, 132 Beugo, John, 175 Bible, 23 Black Bull Inn, Glasgow, 166 Blacklock, Thomas, 99, 195 Blair, Athole, 116-117, 207 Blair, Hugh, 29, 97, 104, 118, 155, 195, 244, 302 Blair, Sir James Hunter, 240 Blair, Robert, 259 Blake, William, 243, 278 Bloody Assizes, 293 Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 60 _Bonnie Dundee_, 261-262 Border tour, Burns’s, 113, 200, 208, 240, 247, 255 Boston, Thomas, 19, 37, 281 Boswell, Sir Alexander, 274 Boswell, Euphemia, 165 Boswell, James, 11, 29, 60, 91, 103, 107, 111, 129, 278, 302, 304 Boyd, Thomas, 120, 213 Brawne, Fanny, 250 Braxfield, Robert M’Queen, Lord, 102, 108, 129 Bremner, Robert, 242 _Brigs of Ayr, The_, 248 Broadsides, Scottish, 45 Brontë, Emily, 162 Brown, Richard, 80-83, 84, 89, 92, 137-138, 163, 166, 169, 237 Brown, Samuel, 56 Browning, Robert, 250, 251 Brow Well, 133, 184-187 Bruce, King Robert the, 272, 300 Brussels, 32 Buchan, David Stuart Erskine, Earl of, 100-101, 255 Buchan, John, 305 Burke, Edmund, 278, 292, 295 Burn, Robert, 221 Burnes, Agnes Broun (mother of the poet), 37-38, 44, 90, 135-136, 138-139, 203 Burnes, Robert (grandfather of the poet), 36 Burnes, Robert (uncle of the poet), 36, 60 Burnes, William (father of the poet), 8, 34, 35, 36-39, 41, 42-43, 48, 49-50, 55, 59, 62, 70, 71-73, 84, 85-88, 90, 279 Burness, James, 117, 232 Burnet, Elizabeth, of Manboddo, 240 Burns, Agnes (sister of the poet), 49 Burns, Elizabeth Paton (daughter of the poet), 74, 138-139, 143, 150, 203 Burns, Elizabeth Riddell (daughter of the poet), 183-184 Burns, Gilbert (brother of the poet), 11, 34, 37, 41, 48, 50, 55, 59, 63, 68, 73, 87, 88, 90, 95, 122, 138, 143, 186, 202-203, 208, 214, 220, 245 Burns, Isabella (sister of the poet). _See_ Begg, Isabella Burns Burns, Jean Armour, 13, 83, 90, 91-92, 109, 110, 113, 114-115, 118, 126, 133, 136, 138, 139-144, 146-148, 150, 153, 156, 164, 165, 167-170, 172-176, 185, 187, 189, 192-193, 201, 212, 214, 217, 220, 221, 232, 233 Burns, John (brother of the poet), 88 Burns, Robert, _Poems_. See _Poems_, Burns’s Burns, Robert, the poet, _passim_. Specific references are to be found in association with other persons, topics, or places. Burns, Robert (son of the poet), 167, 174, 185 Burns, William (brother of the poet), 166, 203-204, 215 Burns, William Nicol (son of the poet), 119 Burns Clubs, 301, 306-308 Burton, Robert, 42 _Bush aboon Traquair, The_, 48, 255 Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 5, 301 Butler, Samuel, 300 Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord, 109, 278 Cadell and Davies, 199 Caedmon, 23 _Ça Ira_, 295-296 Caledonian Hunt, 99, 127, 197 _Caller Oysters_, 248 Calton Hill, 118 Calvin, John, 19