B.

• BAdgers in Englãd, 225, b 30 Ba [...]iffes office, 155, a 60
• Ba [...]nards castell, when and by whom builded, 195, b 30
• Baldwine archbishop of Can|turburie, 226, b 60
• Bangor bishopriks erectiõ, cir|cuit, and valuation, 145, a 30
• Bangor monasterie now plou|ghed ground, 83, a 30
• B [...]nke of Chesill & the strange nature thereof, 58, b 10
• Baptisme without préests. 41, a 20. Ministred to a great sort at once, 43, b 50
• Banneret an order of knights, 162, a 30
• Bards and whervpon they had their name, 21, a 30. Degene|rate from their first instituti|on, 21, a 40. A name contemp|tuouslie ascribed to idiots & fooles, 21, a 50
• Bardus the fift king of y^e Celts 21, a 10. A Celtike word and what it signifieth, 21, a 50
• Barnacles generation verie strange, 222, b 60. Great plen|tie in Mona and Ireland, being neither fish nor flesh, 38, a 40. Their generation by di|ligent inquirie partlie know|en, 38, a 50
• Barnet & Sullomaca all one or no [...] far in sunder, 191, b 10
• Baro a word yet in vse, and commonlie pronounced Bar|nes, 157, b 10
• Baron whereof he beareth his name, & his dignitie, 157, a 60. Who is so [...], 158, b 10
• Baron chéefe lord of excheker, 157, b 20
• Barons in England how ma|nie, 165, a 20
• Barrie Iland went fiftie yeers ago for ten pounds, 75, b 10. And of certeine strange noi|ses to be heard at a ri [...]t ther|of, 129, b 40
• Bath how called in the Romãs time, 190, b 50. And of the an|cientnes of the same, 215, b 10
• Bath and Welles counted but one citie, 189, b 30
• Bath bishoprikes erection, cir|cuit, and valuation, 142, a 20
• Baths hot, with their number, names, & colour of their wa|ter, &c. 216, a 30. Whether na|turall or artificiall, 215, b 10. 216, a 10
• Baths cold in Summerset|shire, 214, b 40. ¶ Sée Welles.
• Battell first on the water that euer was fought. 3, b 60
• Battell cruell betwéene H [...]r|cules, Albion, and Bergion, &c. 4, a 50
• Battell on Bloreheath. ¶ Sée Bloreheath, Conflict, and Warre.
• Beasts sauage in England, 225, a 40. Uenemous. 227, b 60
• Beauchampe Henrie crowned king of Wight, &c. 31, b 60
• Becket Thom. writeth proud|lie to king Henrie the se|cond. 133, b 30
• Beda a famous préest & where he was brought vp. 91, a 40 b 10. Where he was borne and dwelt, 91, a 10. The first doctor that euer was in Cã|bridge, 150, b 10
• Béere and the maner of brew|ing thereof, 169, b 30. What water best to make it, 170, a 40. March béere, 167, b 40. ¶ Sée Ale.
• Bées how ingendered, 228, b 40. ¶ Sée Honie.
• Beggers termed idle, who they be, 183, a 30, 60
• Belforrest his opinion touching the name Anglia, 5, a 40. He maketh but [...]oure parts of the earth, 1, b 30
• Beline & Bren part the whole empire betwixt them, 117, b 30
• Belines gate, 195, b 60
• Belus a riuer: note. 187, b 60
• Bendishes gentlemen of an an|cient and seruiceable house, 106, b 40
• Bendish hall cousined from the Bendishes by the moonks of Feuersham, 106, b 40
• Benedict bishop the moonke, 187, b 40
• Benefices in England so small that they will not mainteine a scholar much lesse a learned man, [...]36, b 10. Di [...]se waies fléesed, 136, b 20. 137, a 10. Tenths paid out of thẽ year|lie to the prince, 136, b 30. Two by dispensa [...]ion how they may be held, 136, a 60. A direction for patrons to be|stow them well in y^e vacancie, 151, a 10. ¶ Sée Ministers.
• Bergion reigned ouer the Or|chades as supreame lord, 4, a 40. He and Albion slaine by Hercules. 4, a 10. ¶ Sée Al|bion.
• Berill [...]n vse of glasse for win|dowes. 188, a 10
• Bernicia otherwise called Nor thumberland. 120, b 20. ¶ See Brenicia & Northumberlãd.
• Berstable [...] somtime wal|led with foure gates: note. 65, b 60
• Berwike yéelded vp to y^e king of England without resi|stance, 127, a 10. Woone by the Scots but not the castell, 126, b 60
• Berwike vpõ Twéed by whom builded, 118, a 50
• Biston. ¶ Sée Castell
• Beuer no where to be found in Britaine, but in y^e riuer Tei|fie, 79, a 50. His hinder féet and taile supposed to be fish, 225, b 60
• Beuerleie how called in old time, and how it came to the present name, 93, b 20
• Beuerleie Iohn the first doctor that euer was in Oxford, 150, b 10. First teacher of di|uinitie in Oxford, 93, b 20
• Birds: ¶ Sée Fowles.
• Bishop first of the Ile of Man, 38, b 20. But a bishops sha|dow, and why, 38, b 20. Of the Orchades whose sée is at Pomona 42, b 40. Of Shire|burne slaine in the battell of Athelstana, 95, a 30. Of Win|chester perpetuall prelat to the honorable order of the garter, 141, b 10
• Bishop and his clerks, certeine dangerous rockes, so named, 78, b 50
• Bishops in their anciencie as they sat in parlement An. 5. reg. Elisab. 165, a 60. They prech diligẽtlie, though their predecessors in times past were occupied in temporall affaires, 135, a 60. They are called honorable, 157, b 40. And lords 50. Greatlie estée|med in times past, 158, a 10. Their liuings fléesed, & sun|drie actions of theirs against this spitefull age defended, 139, a 30. Italiãs fiue succée|ded each other in Worcester sée, 142, b 20. Of Durham sometimes earls Palantine, 145, b 40. Of Lichfield for a while called bishops of Che|ster, 143, a 10. Of London so manie as are extant to be had from the faith first receiued, 147, a 30. Thrée chiefe in Britaine, 24, a 20. Preferred from the pulpit to the kéeping of the kings wardrobe, 142, b 50. ¶ Sée Clergie.
• Bishoprike of London why cal|led honorable, 147, b 60. In the Ile of Man and whose donation, 146, a 60
• Bishoprikes in England their erections and their seuerall circuits, &c, 140, a 50. Their tenths & to what sums they yearelie amounted, 146, a 30. Under the sée of Canturbu|rie twentie one, and Yorke, foure, 135, a 10. They beare the names of cities, and why, 192, b 40. Ouerthrowne and now out of name, which in old time were famous, 146, b 20. Bought & sold as other mea|ner liuings, 137, b 30. Thrée thorough out all this land, 118, b 60. How manie in En|gland with archbishoprikes, 189, b 20. In Wales their e|rection, circuit, & valuation, 145, a 10. In France how manie, 139, b 10
• Bitumen, 236, b 20
• Blackne [...]e and of what bredth the sea is there, 3, a 20
• Blockehouses. ¶ Sée Castels.
• Bloreheath battell betwéene Henrie the sixt and the duke o [...] Yorke purposed, but not ex|ecuted. 69, b 50
• Bloud stone. 2 [...]9, b 20
• Bodge [...]s suborned and licen|ced: note. 202, b 30
• Bodinus & whense he deriueth the name Albion. 3, b 10
• Bones of dead men of greater stature thã is credible found in Godmancester, 102, b 60 ¶ See Giants.
• Bores nature, & how he is to be hunted being wild, 226, b 20. Tame made brawne, 221, b 60
• Borsholder, 154, a 20
• Botes guided by the ferri|men by a rope without ores, 58, b 20. What number of them & water men are kept and mainteined vpon the Thames, 47, a 60. Made of rushes & reeds, 3, b 60
• Bowes long of great vse some|times in Englãd. 198, a 50, 60 ¶ Sée Archerie.
• Brackleie sometimes a noble towne, now scarse a good vil|lage, 102, a 60
• Brackwort. 169, b 60
• Brawne of the bore, wherein note the termes, 222, a 40. A meat not vsuallie knowne to strangers, 221, b 60. Eaten in Lent by a papist that tooke it to be fis [...], 222, a 10
• Bread why it holdeth not out the size, 168, b 10. Of diuerse sorts, 168, b 10. Not looked vnto tither for y^e size or s [...]e, 202, a 40
• Brenucham towne by what ar|tificers chieflie mainteined. 97, a 10
• Brennicia aliàs Northumber|land a kingdome, 16, b 60. Whereof it sometime tooke that name. 89, a 10
• Brennich riuer whereof Bren|nicia kingdome tooke y^e name 89, a 20
• Brereton blockes neuer séene, but against some mischéefe to befall to that house. 67, b 20
• Bride riuer mouth naturallie placed betwéene two hils, fit for a hauen. 58, b 40
• Bridge of London a continuall stréet situate ouer y^e Thames, 47, a 50. Of Rochester by whome begun and by whome finished, 52, b 60. Of Uske ouerthrowne by the rage of a riuer, 74, a 60
• Bricke burning a decaie of wood, 234, b 50
• Bristow how called in the Ro|mans time, 190, b 60. Bishop|rike thereof, erection, circuit, and valuat [...]on, 144, b 50.
• Britaine when not cut frõ the maine by Noahs floud, 225, b 30. The first conquest therof, 3, a 60. The gospell preached there and by whome, 23, a all. Diuided by y^e Romans into fiue prouinces, 17, b 30. The manifold alterations and cõ|uersions of the estate therof, since the time of Samothes, 28, a 10. How it lieth from the maine, 2, a 60. Unto what por tion of the earth it is refer|red. 2, a 60. Why called Albi|on (as some cõiecture) 3, b 10. Ships wrought of wicker sometime vsed in it, 3, b 60. The kings therof from Sa|mothes to Brute, and so for|wards, 17, 18, 19. Of Paules presence there, 23, a 10. It hath néed of no nation but of it selfe, 237, a 50. Subdued by Iulius Cesar, 118, b 30. Edgar king thereof rowed in a barge by six or seuen kings, 122, b a 60. Inioied by Brute & his posteritie during two and fiftie descents, 118, a 10. Why named the great, 118, [...] 40. The souereingtie thereof how it remaineth to the prin|ces of the same, 116, b 50 Of the people there, their consti|tution of bodie, age, &c. 114 a 60. 115, a 10. How first diui|ded into thrée portions, 116, a 10. Generallie commended in an ancient monument, 112, a 20. The foure high waies sometime made in it by the princes of the same, 112, a 40. The aire, so [...]le, and commodi|ties thereof, 108, b 30. Under the Celts thrée hundred and one and fourtie yeares. 3, b 10. The distance of it from the maine, 3, a 20. Called Ualen|tia, 5, a 20. The name of it knowne to some of y^e Gréeks, 5, a 10. The longitude & lati|tude thereof, 2, b 20. A long while called Samothea, 3, a 60. The anciẽt names of it, [...], a 50. Promontories thereof, 3, a 10. The forme of it three cornerd, 2, b 60. Uariance a|mong EEBO page image 711 writers about the cõ|passe therof, 2, b 40. A parcell of it inhabited sometime by the Irish, 6, a 10. Pestered with manie sorts of people, 5, b 30. What sundrie people and nations setled themselues in it, 5, 6, 7, &c. Called Angles land by an edict, 5, a 20. Ilãds to be seene vpon the coasts of it, 29, b 30. The first prouince that receiued the gospell ge|nerallie, 24, b 20. Into how manie kingdoms it hath bin diuided, 14, 15, 16. What nati|ons came with the Saxons into it, 5, a 30. At the first one entier kingdome, 14, b 50. How soone inhabited after the diuision of the earth, 5, a 10. The differing opinions of men touching the name of it, 4, b 20 Whether it were some|time parcell of the maine, 4, b 50. How long it was called Albion, 4, b 10. Deliuered of a tyrant by Hercules, 4, a 60. ¶ Sée Albion, England, Picts, Romans, & Scots.
• Britons diuided this Iland in|to cantreds, 153, a 50. Their abstinence, 166, a 60. They had some vse of Logike and Rhetorike from the Galles, 20, a 60, b 10. The speach of y^e ancient sort and of the Celts much alike, 12, b 40. They & the Celtes indifferentlie cal|led Cimbri, 13, a 10. They are driuen into Wales & Corne|wall by the Saxons, &c: 6, b 30. Diligent and readie in pe|degrées, 13, a 60, b 10. Their industrie in the vse and appli|cation of the benefits of their countrie, 111, b 20. Defended against their slanderers, 115, a 10, b 10. Ualourous, 114, b 10. The constitution of their bodies, 114, a 60. Their slight building, 187, a 20. ¶ Sée Welshmen.
• Brookes. ¶ Sée Riuers.
• Bruing. ¶ Sée Béere.
• Brute the sonne of Syluius ar|riueth in Britaine with his ships, 5, b 10. What time he arriued in Britaine, 4, b 10. He surueieth all Britaine, 116, a 10. He diuided all Bri|taine to his thrée sonnes, 116, a 50. From whense he learned his religiõ, 22, a 60. His death the maner thereof not certein|lie knowen, 116, a 30. Inter|red at his new citie, 116, b 30
• Bruton Iohn bishop of Here|ford kéeper of y^e kings ward|robe, 142, b 50.
• Bucchanan partlie followeth the error of Goropius about Britaine, 3, b 10
• Bucke, & what names he hath before he be so called, 226, a 30
• Buckingham & Bedfordshires haue the riuer Clée rising in their verie confines, 102, b 20
• Buckhurst lord ambassador to the French king in Henrie the seuenths time, 231, a 30
• Bubali olim in Anglia, 208, a 10
• Building and furniture of hou|ses in England described, 187 a 10. With stone now cõmon|lie vsed, 234, b 40. New & cu|rious deuises vsed therein, 212, b 10. Quarries of stone seruing thereto, 234, b 20
• Buildings in Englãd of what manner, 109, b 10
• Buls wild sometimes in Eng|land, 225, b 10
• Burchier sir Rafe knight his deuise of casting alabaster in moolds, 235, a 60
• Burgesses & citisens, 162, b 60. Ancient maner of buriall in Angleseie, 36, b 60
• Burials of the kings of Ire|land, 40, a 20
• Burials of the kings of Scot|land, 40, a 20
• Burrow, 154, a 20
• Burrow kind what kind of cu|stome, 180, b 20
• Burrowes how they were wal|led about with stone walles, 217, b 60. And to what vse the Britons put them, 218, a 10
• Buttermen and the cause that butter riseth in the price, 203, b 30
• Buxston baths. 214, b 30