ip I., Duke of, ii. 265

Burgundy, Philip II., Duke of, ii. 286; iii. 5, 6, 12, 14

Burgundy, Philip III., Duke of,
alliance with Henry V., iii. 35;
relations with Brabant, 42, 43, 45;
withdraws his troops from siege of Orleans, 46;
sells Jeanne d'Arc to the English, 53;
joins Charles VII., 56, 122;
cedes Picardy to Lewis XI., 122;
mediates between Lewis and Edward, _ib._;
dies, 130

Burgundy, John, Duke of, iii. 16, 17;
relations with England and France, 23, 24, 32;
assassinated, 35

Burgundy, Charles the Bold, Duke of. _See_ Charles

Burgundy, Mary of, iii. 146, 147, 150, 151, 170

"Burh," the old English, i. 294

Burke, Edmund, vii. 332-337;
supports the Declaratory Act, 338;
attacks the Chatham ministry, 341;
his scheme for reform of the constituencies, viii. 10;
his proposals for conciliating America rejected, 20;
his bill of Economical Reform, 64, 76;
refuses office under Shelburne, 65;
attitude towards the French Revolution, 87, 89;
share in the impeachment of Hastings, 90;
_Reflections_, _ib._;
quarrel with Fox, 92, 93;
_Appeal from the new to the old Whigs_, 93;
supports the government against France, 104;
_Letters on a Regicide Peace_, 116;
death, 126

Burleigh, William Cecil, Lord (_see_ Cecil), iv. 352;
protests against expulsion of Puritan clergy, 342;
his tract on _The Execution of Justice_, 5;
his ill-will to Spenser, v. 12;
death, 63

Burley, Sir Simon, ii. 353

Burnet, Gilbert, vi. 169;
bishop of Salisbury, vii. 65;
his _History of his own Time_, vi. 157

Burns, Robert, viii. 46

_Burton, Annals of_, i. 273

Burton, John, v. 329

Burton, Thomas, his _Diary_, v. 37

Busaco, battle of, viii. 190

Bute, John Stuart, third Earl of, vii. 302, 303;
Prime Minister, 306;
policy towards America, 310, 311;
fall, 314

Butler, Joseph, vi. 169

Butler, Samuel, vi. 162

Butler, the king's, origin of his office, i. 132

Buttington, battle of, i. 117

Byng, Admiral, vii. 248

Byron, Commodore, vii. 277

"Cabal," the, vi. 246, 303

Cabinet, the, its origin, vi. 303

Cabot, Sebastian, iii. 189; iv. 283, 330

Cade, John, iii. 64-67

Cadiz,
Drake's expedition to, iv. 355;
English descents on, v. 60, 247;
blockaded by an English fleet, vii. 223

Cadwallon, king of the Bri