Bermudas, Gates and Somers shipwrecked on the, 40; birds and wild hogs at the, 41, 65, n. 6; marvelous escape from the, 41, 65, n. 6. Beste, George, 2, m.; 4; on the New World, 21, n. 2. Biard on Dale's severity to French prisoners, 66, n. 9. Bible, reading the, as part of the service, reprehended by the extremists, 117. Birch's Court of James I, 68, n. 10; 69, n. 14; 72, n. 19; 258, n. 1. Bishoprics filled by Elizabeth, 143. Bishops, effect of the hostility of the, to the Puritans, 112; attacked by the Mar-Prelate tracts, 115; reaction in favor of, 121; had become Protestant to most people, 123. Bison found near the Potomac, 50. Blackstone, William, first settler at Boston, 190. Blake's Annals of Dorchester, 219, n. 9. Boston chosen as fittest place for public meetings, 319; secured Cotton to balance Newton's Hooker, 319. Boston church, Roger Williams refused to become a minister of, 270. Boston Town Records, 329, m. Boulton, a Separatist, recanted and hung himself, 157, n. 2. Bowling in the streets the daily work at Jamestown, 44. Bowls, Calvin playing at, on Sunday, 124; Mar-Prelate berates the Bishop of London for playing, 128. Bownd's, Dr., Sabbath of the Old and the New Testament, 124, 128; views rapidly accepted, 129; ultra-propositions exceeded, 130; captivated the religious public, 130; opposition to, 131; new edition published, 132, 139, n. 10. Bozman, 265, n. 22. Bradford, William, a silk-weaver in Leyden, 169; chosen governor at Plymouth, 179; abolishes communism, 180; of high aspiration restrained by practical wisdom, 306. Bradford's Dialogue of 1593, 146, m.; Plimoth Plantation, 145, m.; 153, m.; 154, m.; 155, m.; 158, n. 3; 165, m.; 166, m.; 175, m.; 184, n. 4; 186, n. 9; 274, m. Brewster, William, at court, 152; master of the post at Scrooby, 153; secured ministers for neighboring parishes who were silenced, 153; the host and ruling elder of the Scrooby church, 154; useful career of, 155; project of forming a new state, 167; books owned by, 168. Briefe Declaration, MS., 27, m.; 40, m.; 43, m.; 44, m.; 45, m.; 46, m.; 47, m.; 66, n. 9. Brieff Discourse of the Troubles begun at Frankfort, 135, n. 3. Briggs, Henry, on the nearness of the Pacific, 10, 22, n. 6. Bristol colony in Newfoundland, 258, n. 3. British Museum, MS., 42, m.; 44, m. Broughton wrote a tractate on the Jewish ephod, 108. Brown, Richard, submitted to remonstrance, 290. Browne, John and Samuel, sent back to England by Endecott, 200. Browne, Robert, leader of the Separatists, 145; despised for recanting, died in prison, 146; career lasted only four or five years, 147; John Robinson's justification of, 157, n. 1; authorities on, 157, n. 1; 158, n. 2. Brownists. See SEPARATISTS. Brown's Genesis of the United States, 94, n. 1; 183, n. 3.