Full Index ‘B’

Babington Plot (1586) 303, 313

Bacon, Lady Ann 302

Bacon, Roger 143, 177–8

Bacon, Sir Nicholas 300

Bagot, Richard, Bishop of Oxford 448

Baines, William 441

Bainham, James 258

Baldwin, Stanley 519, 520, 529

Baldwin of Flanders 87

Balfour, Arthur 496, 504, 518

Ball, Peter 567

Balliol, John 128

Balthasar, Hans Urs von 546

Bampton, Richard 144

Bancroft, Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury 321, 335

Bank of England 352, 385

Bannockburn, Battle of (1314) 128, 134

baptisms

numbers of 490, 506

women performing 316

 see also infant baptism

Baptist Missionary Society 422

Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel 434

Baptists 347–8, 459–61, 527, 555

Barclay, Gilbert 485

Barclay, Robert 355

Barebones Parliament 344–5

Barker, Robert 317

Barnardo, Thomas 491

Barnes, Robert 258, 267

Barrie, J. M., Peter Pan 492

Barrington, Shute, Bishop of Durham 422

Barrow, Isaac 365

Barry, Charles 443

Barth, Karl 521, 524

Barton, Elizabeth 259

Basil of Caesarea 34, 138, 165, 187

Basterfeld, Sir William 184

Bateman, William, Bishop of Norwich 588

Bath Abbey 68, 72–3, 228, 237

Bathurst, Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst 425

Bathurst, Henry, Bishop of Norwich 439, 468

Battle Abbey 108

Bauckham, Richard 573

Baxter, Richard 349, 353, 354, 356, 361, 362–3, 582

Bayeux Tapestry 87

Bayldon, George 487

Baylham, Suffolk 183

Bazalgette, Joseph 489

BBC 538

Beatrice, Princess (daughter of Queen Victoria) 497

Beaufort, Margaret 145, 228, 236

Bec Abbey, Normandy 140

Becket, Thomas 95, 105–14, 229

shrine 113–14, 255

Beckett, Samuel 545

Bede, Venerable

on the arrival of Angles, Saxons and Jutes 24–5

on Augustine of Canterbury 30–1, 146

Biblical commentaries 580

on British agriculture 5

on church abuses 53

on the conversion of the Picts 35

on the “flight of a sparrow” 32–3, 595–6

on Germanus of Auxerre 17

on Hadrian and Theodore 40–1

influence on Anselm 96–7

Life of Cuthbert 44

and Northumbrian monasticism 46–8

on St Aidan 36

on St Alban 14

on the Synod of Whitby 39

translated by Alfred 63

bede rolls 185

Bedford, John Russell, 1st Earl of 277

Bedingfield, Sir Henry 295

Bell, George, Bishop of Chichester 518, 521, 528, 530–1, 533, 540

Bell, Gertrude 515

Belloc, Hilaire 512

Benedict, Rule of 30, 46, 69, 138–9

Benedict, St 138

Benedict of Nursia 34

Benedict XVI, Pope (formerly Cardinal Ratzinger) 564, 571–2

Benedictines 30, 69, 70–1, 140–1

Benenson, Peter 551

Bennett, Dennis 550

Bennett, Garry 560

Benson, A. C. 498

Benson, Edward White, Archbishop of Canterbury 490, 507

Benson, Martin, Bishop of Gloucester 396

Benson, William 259

Bentham, Jeremy 422, 431, 443

Bentinck, Willem 373

Benz, Karl 500

Beowulf 27

Berbers 58

Berengar of Tours 95

Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury 43

Bernard, Thomas 422

Bernard of Clairvaux 104, 106, 116, 141–2

Bernard Shaw, George 512

Bernicia, kingdom of 27, 30, 32, 33, 37

Berquin, Louis de 254

Berwick, Treaty of (1586) 306

Besant, Annie 476

Bethlehem (Bedlam) Hospital 387

Beukels, Jan (John of Leiden) 270

Bevan, Aneurin 533, 535, 536

Beveridge, William 533, 535, 590, 594

Bevin, Ernest 535

Beza, Theodore 301

Biafra, Nigeria 552

Bible

Authorised Version (1611) 264, 322, 382

Bishop’s Bible 321, 322

Codex Alexandrinus 473

Codex Amiatinus 48

Codex Grandior 48

Codex Sinaiticus 473

Codex Vaticanus 473

displayed in the Great Exhibition (1851) 454–5

Douai Bible 402

English translations 180, 217–18, 260–4, 266, 321–3, 580–1

Geneva Bible 321

Great Bible (1536) 262–4, 321, 581

King James Bible 321–3

Matthew’s Bible 263, 268, 286, 321

Revised Version (1881) 474

Rheims Bible 311

vernacular translations 248

Vulgate 18

Winchester Bible 104

 see also Tyndale, William; Wyclif, John

biblical criticism 473–6

Bickersteth, Edward, Bishop of Exeter 468

Bill, William 296

Bill of Rights (1689) 372, 382

Bilney, Thomas 258

Birinius 37

Birmingham 386–7, 411, 438

Birrell, Augustine 510

Biscop Baducing (Benedict Biscop) 41, 46–7, 53, 585

Bishopric Crisis (1707) 376

bishops, in the Middle Ages 147

Black Death (1345–50) 134, 137, 154, 180, 588

Black September (terrorist group) 553

Blair, Tony 564, 568

Blake, William, “Jerusalem” 415–16, 498

Blenheim, Battle of (1704) 375

Blériot, Louis 500

Blomfield, Charles, Bishop of London 440, 455, 463

Blount, Elizabeth 243

Blunden, Edmund 515

Blunt, J. J., The Duties of a Parish Priest 487

Blunt, John 154

Board of Education 463

Board Schools 479, 488

Boccaccio, Decameron 195

Boddy, Alexander 509

Boer War (1899-1902) 497–8

Boethius

Consolation of Philosophy 63–4

Topics 173

Bohemia, Kingdom of 324–5

Bohemund of Taranto 117

Böhler, Peter 395

Boleyn, Anne 244, 247, 250, 251–4, 264, 265, 282

Boleyn, Mary 243, 252

Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount 376, 381

Bonar Law, Andrew 519

Bonaventure, St (‘Seraphic Doctor’) 167, 170, 178, 179, 182, 187, 205

Bond, John 487

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 524, 530, 548

Boniface, Archdeacon of Rome 41

Boniface, St 592

Boniface IV, Pope 32, 35

Boniface the Martyr 46, 50–1, 52

Bonner, Edmund, Bishop of London 274, 278, 287, 289, 290, 298

book burnings 242, 258, 262

Book of Cerne 72

Book of Common Prayer

(1549) 151, 268, 274–8

(1552) 279–80, 297

(1652) 353

denounced during the Commonwealth 345–6

endurance of 584–5

revisions (1928) 522–3

words of administration and black rubric 298

books of hours 196

Booth, Catherine 470

Booth, Florence Soper 492

Booth, William 470–1

boroughs 84

Bosanquet, Helen 504

Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, Bishop of Meaux 373, 402

Bosworth, Battle of (1485) 229, 235, 236

Boudicca (Iceni queen) 8–9

Bourchier, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury 228

Bourne, Francis, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster 522, 526

Bourne, Hugh 459

Bowring, Lyndon and Celia 573

Boyle, Robert 363

Boyne, Battle of the (1690) 372

Bradlaugh, Charles 476

Bradshaw, John 353

Bradwardine, Thomas 219

Bray, Thomas 385

Brendan, St 37

Brethren Movement 462

Brewin, Don 557

Bridges, Robert 495

Bridget of Sweden 190, 205

Brigantes tribe 8

Bright, John 430, 461

Bristol 137

British and Foreign Bible Society 422

British and Foreign Schools Society 463

British Celts 26

British Council of Churches 551

British Empire 405–6, 423, 424, 434, 481–2, 497, 534, 535, 537, 543

British Medical Association 536

Brittain, Vera 533

Britten, Benjamin, War Requiem 517, 539, 586

Brixton and Toxteth riots (1981) 558, 559

Brixworth parish church 71, 149, 584

Broad Church Anglicanism 468, 470, 506

Brown, David 434–5

Bruce, Robert 128

Brunanburth, Battle of (937) 66

Brunhilde, Queen of Metz 29

Bucer, Martin 265, 271, 273, 275, 279

Buchman, Frank 520

Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of 325, 328, 333

Bulgaria 480

Bulgars 58

Bullinger, Heinrich 271, 301

Bunting, Jabez 413, 458–9

Bunyan, John 349, 355, 582

Burghal Hidage 62–3

Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron 281, 293, 296–7, 298, 303, 306, 308, 309, 313, 317

Burgon, J. W. 474

burials, in Anglican churchyards 488–9

Burke, Edmund 407, 413–14, 421

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury 383

Burney, Fanny 435

Bury St Edmunds 183

Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of (Lord Bute) 407

Butler, Joseph, Bishop 398

Butler, Josephine 492, 589

Butler, R. A. 533, 535, 536

Butts, William 254

Buxton, Charles 474

Buxton, Thomas Fowell 418–19, 422

Byrd, William 317, 404, 585

Byrhtferth (Saxon scholar) 72

Byrthnoth, Ealdorman 74