BACCHUS, a knight errant, iv. 266.
BACON, Lord, his remark on retirement, iii. 137.
why he was neglected by Queen Elizabeth, iii. 243. n.
his excuse for bribery, 269.
his remark on depression of nobility, iv. 27. n.
BACON, NAT. character of his discourses on government, iii. 307.
his observation on the state of the law in Henry V’s reign, 378.
his character of Henry VIII. iv. 29. n.
BARONS, their contests with the king, whence arising, iii. 332.
how reduced by Henry VII. 334.
they originally formed the great council of the kingdom, _ib._
their opposition to a law for legitimating bastards, 363.
their castles courts, as well as fortresses, iv. 247.
described in romances as giants, 264.
BASHFULNESS in young persons, whence arising, iv. 161.
a wise provision of nature, 162.
BASTARDS, how legitimated by the imperial and canon laws, iii. 362.
BEAR-BAITING practised in the reign of Elizabeth, iii. 186. n.
BENEFICIARY ESTATES, in France, what, iii. 318.
BERKELEY, Bishop, his “Minute Philosopher” excellent as a specimen
of modern dialogue, iii. 24.
BOILEAU, a word of his overturned the reputation of the Italian
poetry, iv. 314.
BRACTON, his notion of a free government, iii. 370.
BREEDING, forms of, a primary concern in foreign travel, iv. 147.
BRIBERY, common in Elizabeth’s reign, iii. 267.
BURGHLEY, Lord, practised on the fears of Queen Elizabeth, iii. 257.
BURNET, Bishop, his notion of the danger to be apprehended from the
Pretender, iii. 293.
Augurs favourably of the Revolution, iv. 9, 10.
his inquiry into the increase of Prerogative under the Tudors, 19.
and after the ecclesiastical supremacy was transferred, 46.
his apology for the clergy, 58 _to_ 64.
his opinion on resistance, 66. n.
BUTLER, ridicules the circumstance of women warriors in romance,
iv. 317.