abbey at, 114

Athenree, battle of, ii. 376

Athlone captured by the English, iii. 329

Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester, vii. 167

Audley, James Touchet, Lord, iii. 74

Aughrim, battle of, vii. 73

Augsburg,
conference at, iv. 21;
treaty of, vii. 27

Augustine, St., Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 57-59

Austerlitz, battle of, viii. 173

Australia, vii. 278

Austria, Charles, Archduke of, iv. 193, 195

Austria, Don John of, iv. 310-312

Auxerre, battle near, iii. 39

Avaux, Count of, vii. 59

Avesbury, Robert of, ii. 177

Avignon, the Popes at, ii. 216, 217, 221, 224

Avowal, the, v. 268

Avranches taken by Henry V., iii. 33

Axholme, the Disinherited at, ii. 84, 85

Aylesford, battle of, i. 33

Aylmer, John, iv. 119

Ayrshire, rising in, vi. 62

Babington, Anthony, iv. 351, 352

Bacon, Francis, v. 46-55;
his political career, 222-224;
last years, 225;
_Life of Henry VII._, iii. 83

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, iv. 152

Bacon, Roger, i. 293; ii. 14-19;
his _Opus Majus_, 19-21

Badajoz stormed, viii. 199

Badbury, battle of, i. 34

Badby, Thomas, iii. 22

Badlesmere, Lady, ii. 195

Baeda, i. 91-95;
his _History_, 4, 94

Baillie's _Letters_, v. 73

Bale, Bishop of Ossory, iv. 63, 109, 119, 128, 129

Ball, John, ii. 268, 269, 318, 319, 336

Balliol, Edward,
acknowledged as king of Scots at the English court, ii. 204;
seizes the crown, 210;
driven out, 211;
restored, 212;
withdraws to England, 213, 214;
resigns, 253

Balliol, John,
claimant of the Scottish crown, ii. 136;
king, 138;
resists Edward's claim to receive appeals, 140;
alliance with France, 160;
defies Edward, 161;
surrenders, _ib._;
released and goes to France, 170

Balmerino, Arthur Elphinston, sixth Lord, vii. 230

Bamborough
founded by Ida, i. 52;
attacked by Penda, 71

Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, iv. 341; v. 156, 165

Bank of England founded, vii. 86;
suspends specie payments, viii. 126

Bankers, foreign, in England, under Edward I., ii. 106, 107;
expelled, 189

Bannockburn, battle of, ii. 192, 193

Bantry Bay, battle in, vii. 68

Baptists, rise of the, vi. 28

Barbour, John, ii. 177

Barbury Hill, battle of, i. 37

Bardolf, Thomas, Lord, iii. 18, 19

Bards, the Welsh, ii. 53, 56; iii.