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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