Balmerino, lord, I. 113. Bandinel, Dr. Bulkeley, librarian of the Bodleian, communicates information for the present work, II. 8, 252. VI. .231. Bank, land, IV. 318. Barbarigo, cardinal, I. 354. IV. 131.
Barcelona, attempt on, V. 155. Barclay, sir George, IV. 298. his account of an attempt against the prince of Orange, ibid. Barillon, M., II. 394, 468. at- tempts divisions among the peers, III. 288. Barlow, bishop, III. 145. Barnevelt, reported to have been a Calvinist, I. 26. Barrier treaty, V. 417. VI. 112. Barry, Mrs., the actress, teaches queen Anne to modulate her voice, V. 2.
Bath, earl of, present at Charles
the second's death, II. 470. Bavaria, electoral prince of, dies, and not without suspicions,
IV. 411. Bayley, Dr., fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, III. 148. Baxter, captain, III. 212. Beach, his letters to the younger Burnet, Pref. xvii, xviii, xxii. II. 46. VI. 311.
lieutenant-colonel,
III. 282. Bedford, Hilkiah, V. 446. Bedford, duke of, protests, IV. 70. Bedloe, not credited by bishop
Lloyd, II. 188. his death, 263. Bellasis, lady, her deposition, III. 253.
Bennet, Henry earl of Arlington.
Bentinck, ambassador from the prince of Orange, urges Mon- mouth's execution, III. 26. IV. 563. See Portland, earl of. Berkeley, Mrs., III. 335. Berkeley, lord, of better parts
than principles, I. 490. VI. 89. Berkeley of Stratton, lord, IV. 488.
Bernard, Charles, his opinion on the formation of king William III., I. 405.
Berry, the porter of Somerset house, Lloyd's belief of his innocence, II. 264.
Berry, sir John, II. 324. Berwick, duke of, III. 246. at- tached to his native country, IV. 36. aware of the weakness of his father's adherents, 300. V. 383. Beveridge, bishop, I. 347. IV. 137. V. 189.
Bill for the preservation of king James II, III. 42, 43. Birch, Dr., Pref. xxiii. Birch, colonel, his retorts upon speaker Seymour, Mr. Coven- try, and king Charles the se- cond, II. 82. Bishops, the parliament incited to destroy them, I. 242. their right of voting in capital cases, II. 218. on a level with the nobility, 220. married, 442. absent themselves from parlia- ment, IV. 10. the legislature has not power to degrade them from their orders, 18. though persecuted by king James, adhered to him, 135.
Bohemia, Frederick king of, his pretensions to that crown fee- bly supported, and why, I. 23. Bolingbroke, lord, a fine senti-
ment of his respecting the duke of Marlborough, III. 280, 309. V. 362. VI. 75, 128. scheme for a new ministry, 148, 162. his Letters and Cor- respondence cited, 32, 70. 72, 74, 134, 159, 160. See St. John. Bolton, Charles Powlett, duke of, anecdote of, I. 36. an in- sinuation against him, 561. II. 4. IV. 63. protests, 70, 162. his extraordinary habits, 414, 553.
Borel, ambassador from Holland, I. 149. Bonrepos, III. 289. Boscawen, made warden of the
stannaries by lord Godolphin's influence, VI. 10.
Boswell, the late James of Bra-
sennose college, and the Inner Temple, Pref. vii. II. 307. Boufflers, Marshal, IV. 362, 419. Boyle, Robert, slightingly spoken.
of by Swift, I. 351. his cha- racter, V. 355, 356. Boyle, Michael, archbisl:op of Armagh, his MS. Letters cited. I. 319, 353, 357, 459. his cha- racter, III. 72. Bradalbain, lord, IV. 159. Braddon, II. 404. Bradford, bishop, stumbles at the
coronation of George II, III. 21. Bradford, earl of, III. 262. Bramhall, bishop, II. 224. Braybroke, lord, has some ori- ginal papers relating to the Magdalen college affair, III. 152, 154. Brentford earl of, I. 191. Bridges, Mr., afterwards lord and
duke of Chandos, his charac- ter, VI. 47.
Bridgman, Mr., II. 18. Bridgman, sir Orlando, resigns, I. 564. Brienfield, colonel, killed, V.
Brill given up to the States, I. 27. Bristol, earl of, extract from his
MS. speech, I. 185. his skill in astrology, 357-
British Museum, Pref. xxi, xxiv. V. 252.
Bromley, William, his bill against occasional conformity, V. 49, 444. concerning the reprint of his Travels, 229. Brounker or Brunckard, Mr., I. 398, 399.
Bruce, ambassador from James I. bis character of his master,
Bruce, earl of Aylesbury. See Aylesbury.
Brudenel, lord, turns protestant, III. 275.
Buchanan, George, manner in which he educated James the first, I. 12.
Bucier, the surgeon, called to Mr. Harley, VI. 44. Buckingham, George Villiers,
duke of, I. 96. his character by Butler, 184. his impru- dence in talking of political matters, II. 4, 9, 176. speci- mens of his wit, 108. his ve- nality, 176. assisted in theRe - hearsal, 254. Buckinghamshire, John Sheffield, duke of, II. 412, 474, 483. his opinion of queen Anne's declaration against the sale of places, V. 63, 400. adheres to king George, because by executing the rebel lords he evinced his resolution to re- main our king, VI. 80. (That king George himself was to the full as earnest, as any of his ministers, to have them exe-
cuted, appears by the Narrative of the countess of Nithesdale, who effected the escape of her lord, a Roman catholic peer, from the tower of London. It has been lately published by Mr. Savage in his Memorabilia, P. 257.) 81.
Buis, or Buys, Mr., VI. 10, 72. Bull, bishop, IV. 137. tardily preferred, V. 189.
Bulstrode, sir Richard, his Me- moirs quoted, II. 415. Burnett, archbishop of Glasgow, afterwards of S. Andrews, I. 524. his MS. Letters quoted, 191, 235, 259, 383, 387, 415, 524, 525. II. 55. Burnet, bishop, account of the History of his Own Time, Pref. v. xi-xxix. of the sup- pressed passages, xiv-xxiv. of the notes, iv-x, xxiv, xxv. con- cerning the author, ix-xiii. his Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton, xxii-xxiv. account respecting these Memoirs of the dukes of Hamilton, I. 65. his character by lord Dart- mouth, 5, 75. agrees in opinion with Cromwell, 77. unjust to- wards the tories, 78. vain, 147. unjust towards Charles II. 149. unable to keep a secret, 279. his solution of two cases of conscience on divorce and po- lygamy, 480. speaks on pro- hibiting French salt, and is played on by lord Halifax, 491. reflected on by lord Dartmouth, 525. gives an un- just character of sir William Temple, II. 62. the house of commons do not act upon his evidence against Lauderdale, 66. reveals a state secret, 71. an instance of his presump- tion, 341. reason of his good reception in France, 396. in-
formed by his amanuensis of Godfrey's body being found, 156. acquaintance with Tonge and Oates, 300. his swer when questioned about his belief of the conspiracy, 418. Swift accuses him of hastening Leighton's death, 436. disappointed of the see of Winchester, 441. his style of preaching, 451. his cha- racter of Charles II. con- demned, 478. profession of his fidelity as an historian, III. 133. set by the prince of Orange to prevail on the prin- cess to yield all authority to him, 139. design against him, 212. a statement of his con- futed, 241. corrected 246. incautious in his account of the queen's delivery, and the warming-pan story, 257. his vanity, and want of fidelity as an historian, 267. light thrown on the prince of Orange's ob- servation to him, 328, 389, 390. jumbles facts together, and so misleads, 349. seemed to regret that James II. was detained, 352. a pamphlet of his burnt, 404. publishes things knowing them false, IV. 1. a mistake of his pointed out, 37. unjust towards lord Tor- rington, 88. inaccurate in mili- tary affairs, 142. his History curtailed and altered, 162, 164. unjust towards queen Mary, ibid. thought to have planned the regulations for observing the Lord's day, 182. supposed inaccuracy, 205. his rebuke of Talmash much laughed at, 235. commended, 284. op- poses the bill of trials in cases of treason, 291. refuses to carry an address to the king, 349, 353. his observations on
the earl of Sunderland com- mended, 379. accused by king William of intrusion, 386. his charities, 435. misrepresenta- tions by, 545. carries the news of king William's death to queen Anne very officiously, V. 1. 105, 156, 295. accused of impertinence, 457. proposes to abolish forfeiture and cor- ruption of blood, 408. his Ac- count of the conversion of the earl of Rochester praised by Johnson, VI. 270. proved not to be the author of the Memo- rial to the princess Sophia, 368. remarks on his Letter to Charles II. 276. 287.
Burnet, Thomas, son of the au- thor, afterwards judge Burnet, Pref. xvii, xx, xxi. II. 295. author of a pamphlet, called New Proofs of the Pretender's being truly James the third, III. 248, 256, 258, 320. supposed to have submitted his father's History to the duchess of Marl- borough, IV. 162. thought to have curtailed the MS. 164, VI. 331, 337. See Beach. Burton, Hezekiah, I. 476. Bury, made judge by a bribe, V.
Busby, Dr., educated Prior, VI. 70.
Butler, sir Nicholas, III. 262. Butler, Samuel, his character of
the duke of Buckingham, I. 184. Butson, Christopher, bishop of Clonfert, his poem quoted, II.
Byng, sir George, his Memoirs, V. 161, 363. See Torrington, lord. Cadogan, lieutenant general, the merit of Webb's victory falsely given to him, V. 378. lord, VI. 176.
Cæsar, Mr. sent to the tower,
III. 9. his Numerus Infaustus, quoted, IV. 539. Calamy, Dr., asserts the zeal of the nonconformists against po- pery, I. 565. quoted, III. 66. V. 288. Camaret, design on, IV. 233, 234. Cambridge university elect San- croft chancellor, III. 376. Camden, earl, VI. 87. Campbell, Colin, his declaration
about the Scotish plot, V. 135. Campbell, John, see Argyle, duke of.
Canada, expedition to, VI. 65, 66. Capel, lord, his character, IV.
285. two opposing accounts of his popularity in Ireland, ibid. raises divisions there among protestants, v. IOI. Carbery, earl of, acts with hosti- lity towards lord Clarendon, I. 467. Cardonnel, Mr. duke of Marlbo-
rough's secretary, V. 378. Carlingford, earl of, III. 174. Carlisle, earl of, comes power, IV. 544.
Carmarthen, Thomas Osborne, marquis of, IV. 88, his arrogant defence, 263. See Danby, earl of, and Leeds, duke of. Caroline, queen, her remark on the duchess of Marlborough, V. 336. her own character, 322, 323. ber character of the king of Prussia, VI. 151. Carron, a Roman catholic priest, I. 354.
Carstares, Mr., his paper of dis- bursements, III. 27, 328. much in king William's confidence, IV. 535.
Carteret, sir George, I. 174. Carte's 66 Life of the duke of
Ormond," I. 312. his works commended, 319. cited, II. 61. 102. his MS. papers in the
Bodleian library cited, I. 57, 65. II. 253. IV. 362. VI. 231. Cartwright, bishop, his death, III.
145. conduct, 157. Castlemain, lord, disliked at Rome, III. 171.
Castlemain, lady, I. 171. after- wards duchess of Cleveland, 297.
Catharine of Portugal, queen of
Charles II. her person de- scribed, I. 315. said to have miscarried, 480. attached to England during the war of the succession, II. 167. the king asks her pardon on his death-
Charles I. Pref. xxi-xxv. xxix. partial to the Scots, I. 33, 57, 70, 75, 77, 81. cheerful when brought to Newmarket, 86, 87. refused to give up the Nether- lands to France, 89. Swift's opinion relative to Εἰκὼν Βασι- AK, 93, 95. betrayed by Mur- ray, I. 447. passages from bi- shop Burnet relative to him, contradictory of others in this work, 544. promotes the au- thority of the church, III. 195. preferred dying to surrendering his own and his people's rights, V. 338. Charles II. Pref. xiii. xiv. xxix. had not much veneration for his father, I. 95. 149. aban-
174, 322. not careless of the prince of Orange's interest, 363. his speech to the duchess of Richmond, 461. his in- quiry of archbishop Sheldon, 463. negotiates with France. for money, 566. his declara- tion for liberty of conscience, no traces of a protest against it by the lords, II. 8. receives an anonymous letter of com- plaint from Scotland, 50, 65. agrees to accept money from France, 85, 176. unjustly ac- cused by Burnet of going to the parliament in an indecent manner, 281. indignant an- swer to the earl of Essex, 287, 317. sells Luxembourg, 394. foretells that James II. will leave his crown and coun- try, 415, 416. his death, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472. his cou- rage vindicated, 478. his phy- siognomy deceitful, 483. pa- pers found in his strong box discussed, 486. his character falsely drawn by Burnet, 479. 487. not poisoned, 477. much lamented, III. 6, 48. his reign an inactive one, IV. 96. his ex- penditure, 381. speaker On- slow's character of him, IV. 541.
Charles, king of Spain, V. 322. Charnock sides with James II. in the affair of Magdalen college, III. 153, 158. IV. 298, 299. Chesterfield, countess of, admired by the duke of York, I. 418. Chesterfield, earl of, I. 171, 418. Chiffens, or Chiffinch, Will. II. 473, VI. 276.
Child, sir J. his book on trade commended, IV. 414. Chillingworth, William, IV. 292.
Chrysostom's, S., epistle to Cæsa-
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