censors and licensers of, 216; catalogue
of, condemned at the Council of Trent, ib.; inquisitors of, ib.; see
INDEX; burning of, anecdote of its good effect in promoting their
sale, 219; mutilations caused by the censors in Camden's works, Lord
Herbert's History of Henry VIII., and the Poems of Lord Brooke, 220;
anecdotes of purloiners of, iii. 316-319; predilection of celebrated
men to particular, iii. 340-343; calculations as to their present
number, 342; different terms for amateurs of, 343; which have been
designed but not completed, 493, 494.

BOOKSELLERS, two ruined by one author, ii. 533.

BORROWERS, destructive to collections of books, i. 12.

BOTANIC GARDEN, Darwin's remarks on, i. 341.

BOURDALOUE, i. 257.

BOURGEOIS, Pere, one of the Chinese missionaries, account of his
attempt at preaching in Chinese, i. 268.

BOUTS RIMES, i. 296.

BRANDT, Ship of Fools, i. 7.

BRIDGEWATER, late Duke of, destroyed many family MSS., ii. 451.

BUCKINGHAM, Duke of, his familiarity and coarseness with James I.,
i. 463, note; his conduct in Spain, ii. 4; equally a favourite with
James I. and Charles I., 5; Hume's character of, ib. and 355;
anecdote of him and the Queen of France, 6; his audacity and
"English familiarity," ib.; anecdote of him and Prince Charles, 7;
his rise, 10; his magnificent entertainment of Charles I. and the
French ambassador, 327; his character, 356-358, and notes; his fears
of being supplanted, 357, note; contrast between him and Richelieu,
358; secret history of his expedition to Spain with Prince Charles,
359; prognostics of his death, 364; portrait of, 366, note;
determined to succour Rochelle, 367; his death, 371; satires on,
369, 370; possessed the esteem of Charles I., ib.; his extravagance
in dress, iii. 407; intrigued with the Puritans, 443; his
intercourse with Dr. Preston, a Puritan, 444; discovers Preston's
insincerity, and abandons the Puritans, 445; his impeachment, 452;
his failure at the Isle of Rhe, 458; offers to resign his offices,
469; hatred of, by the parliament, 470-474.

BUFFON, Vicq d'Azyr's description of his study, iii. 208.

BUILDINGS in the metropolis, opposition to, from the days of
Elizabeth to those of Charles II., iii. 363; statutes against, 364;
proclamations against, 365.

BURNET, his book against Varillas, i. 132, and note.