_Billets d'abonnement_, 3; 79; for working-people, 242-243. Biloque (or Biloke) Hospital at Ghent, 209. Bladelin, Peter, town house at Bruges, 309; founder of Middleburg, 309. Blankenberghe, from the sea, 16; part of the Franc of Bruges, 59; 324. Blasère, William de, constructs first hothouse at Ghent, 356. Blaton, 368. Blondeel, Lancelot, 61. Blücher, 359. Bosch, Jerome, 341; 405. Botanical Garden at Malines, 316; at Ghent, 356-358. Boterbeke River, intersection with the Roya, 26; subterranean channel of, 27. Boulger, "History of Belgium," quoted, 293. Bouts, Dierick, life and principal works, 307-309; 341; 401. Bouvines, Battle of, 136. Brabant, Duchy of, 137; united to Flanders by marriages of Cambrai, 218-219; Philip the Good becomes Duke of, 221; Duke of, at siege of Tournai, 249; 286; Dukes of, contend with Counts of Flanders for Malines, 315; Dukes of, rule over Antwerp, 395-397. Brabo, legend of, 393-394. Braekeleer, Henri de, "Nursery Garden" in Antwerp Museum, 456. Braine-le-Comte, Flemish name for, 150. Brauwer, Adrian, 454. Breidel, John, Dean of Butchers' Guild at Bruges, 154; at the Matin de Bruges 155-156; at the Battle of Courtrai, 157-160. Breughel, Peter the Elder, principal works and characteristics, 404-405. _Brioches_, 46. Britto, Jean, printer at Bruges, 58. Broederlam, Melchior, early painter of Ypres, 230-231. Broel Towers at Courtrai, 164. Brou, in Savoy, 335-336.