Anne, Queen, Parliaments, 9; Parties, 14; creation of peers, 33 _note^2_; Cabinets, 83, 86; death of, 234; bills quashed, 248; women partisans, 269; reporting in Parliament, 278, 279 Appeal, Court of, 110 Appeal, Lords of, 24, 25 Appellate Jurisdiction, Act of 1876 ... , 25 Apsley, Sir Allen, 192 Arcot, Nabob of, 41 Argyle, Duke of, 95 _note^1_ Arrest, exemption from, 174 Arthur's, 193 Arundel, Earl of, trial, 63 Ascension Day, 227 Ascot, 258 Ash Wednesday, 227 Ashby, case of, 182 Ashley, Lord, _See_ Shaftesbury Ashtown, Lord, 24 _note^2_ Askew, Anne, 107 _note^3_ Atheists and the oath, 147 Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, his reply to Lord Coningsby, 23, 24 Auditor General, 232 Audley, Thomas, Lord Keeper, 106 _Aula Regis_, the, 107 Aylesbury, constables of, 182 Bacon, Francis, trial, 63, 107, 108; "Collection of Apothegms," 114 _and note^2_; _quoted_ 158; _mentioned_, 106, 205 Bacon, Nathaniel, "Historical Discourses," 8 Bacon, Nicholas, 106 Bagehot, Walter, _quoted_, 83, 95, 114, 222 _note^1_ Balaam, reference to, 23, 24, 24 _note^1_ Baldwin, printer of "St. James's Chronicle," 178 Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., 168; opinion of a member of Parliament's position, 51; premiership, 90 Bankrupts, election of, 55, 56 Barnes, on lawyers, _quoted_, 210 _note^3_ Baronage, the, composition and antiquity of, 21, 22 Barons in Council, 4; summoned by Henry II., 64 Barré, Colonel, 31, 94, 199 Barry, Sir Charles, design for Houses of Parliament, 72, 73, 73 _note^1_ Bathurst, Bragge, 258 _note^1_ Beckett, St. Thomas à, 104 Beefeaters, the, duties, 135, 136 Bellamy, John, 78 Bellamy's kitchen, 76-80 Bellingham, merchant, 266 "Benefit of Clergy," 173, 174 Benson, sale of "protections," 175 Bentham, Jeremy, _quoted_, 268 Berkeley, Grantley, 272, 273 Berkshire, Earl of, 191 Bidmead, 177 Big Ben, 73 _and note^2_ Biggar, 164; saying of, _quoted_, 50; speeches, 207; "spying strangers," 264, 265 Billingsgate, 164 Bills, classification, 242; introduction of the bill, 243, 244; 1st and 2nd reading, 244; Committee stage, 244, 245; Report stage and 3rd reading, 245; reception in the Lords, 246; Royal assent, 246 _and note^3_, 247 Birch, Colonel, 111 _note^1_ Bishops, attendance on the Kings, 20; introduction to the House of Lords, 151 "Black Book" of Edward III., 3 Blackfriars, Priory Church, 67 Black Rod, duties, 75, 137, 140, 143, 151, 153, 154, 211, 212, 247; salary, 136, 137 Blackstone, _quoted_, 39, 109 Bodmin, 49 _note^2_ Bolingbroke, on the creation of peers, 33 _note^2_; on leaders, 92; style, 203; on eloquence, 214 _note^2_ Bolton, Duke of, 84, 85 Boneham, 59 Boswell, 280; "Dr. Johnson," 158 _note^1_ Bothmar, 87 Bourchier, Sir Robert, 104