B.

Baden, Marquis of, 838.

Badonaire, M. Thierry, suit of, 964, 1025, 1064, 1314.

Badovero, Messer Andrea, 981.

Bagnocavello, monster born at, 1219.

Bailey, Charles, 1615.

Baillen, Count, 1584.

Baillert, Robert de, letter from, 73.

Balfour, Gilbert, 256.

-, Sir James, 203, 251, 543, 652, 702, 707, 720, 723, 744, 763, 773, 775, 819.

Ballantyne, Patrick, 407.

Ban and Arriere Ban, 1356.

Bannister, Thomas, 608.

Baptista, Dominus, 190.

Barbary, 1,689.

Barbary, traffic with, 1385, 1406, 1437, 1441, 1597; see also Giraldi Francisco, and Portugal, King of.

Barley, price of, 834.

Barker, Mr., 1004.

Barliamont, 478.

Barnboghe, 967.

Barnbowgall, Laird of, 1118.

Barnes Conspiracy, 125.

Bartholomew, Massacre of St., 545, 556, 560–5, 572, 583–4, 600, 684–5, 697, 741, 759, 771, 826, 867, 923, 1069, 1084, 1099, 1314, 1360, 1627.

Barrow, 309.

Barrow, attempt on, 1162.

Basle, people of, 465.

Bass, Laird of, 1225.

- Rock, murder at, 671.

Batembouch, M. de, defeated and slain, 1098.

[Batteville] Antoine de, letters from, 91, 612, 617.

Battori, Stephen, death of, 963.

Bavaria, Duke of, 509, 634, 663, 838.

Bayonne, conference at, 759.

Beatoun, Archie, 1460.

Beaton, Cardinal, see Cardinals.

Beaucaire, 1609.

Beaulieu, M. de, 1357.

Bearn, Huguenots in, see Huguenots.

Belforest, 1612.

Belmain, M., 566.

Bell, Davye, 366.

Bellegarde, 1570, 1572, 1584, 1609, 1617, 1622,

Belleisle, 917, 964, 965, 992, 997, 1029.

Bellenden, Patrick, 750.

-, Sir John, 780.

Belleville Baron de, 1157.

Benevento, Countess of, 1238.

Bennyfield, Sir Edward, 1004.

Bentivoglio, Count Hercole, 1218, 1325.

Bergen op Zoom, 365.

Berne, 741.

Bernestein, Seigneur de, 838.

Berri, Duchy of, 1570.

Berry, 260.

Bartone, Gurone, death of, 843.

Berwick, Bridge at, 752–3, 803, 833, 882, 927.

-, Governor of, see Hunsdon.

-, Marshal of, see Drury.

-, Under Marshal of, see Errington.

-, Surveyor of, see Johnson.

-, charges at, 52, 306, 307, 308, 332, 333, 434.

-, disturbances at, 592.

-, victualling of, 177, 680.

-, complaints of the victualling of, 1643.

-, 1120, 1127, 1159, 1160–1.

-, destruction at, 1232.

-, entertainment of pirates in 1508.

-, corn shipped from, 1183.

-, dearth at, 1240.

-, fortifications of, 1270, 1324, 1370–1.

-, Garrison of, 1313, 1507.

-, Customership of, 1383.

Besançon, people of, 27.

Besme, who slew the Admiral, 992.

Bewcastle, 630, 632.

Beveland, South, 558–9.

Beverley, George, Sir V. Browne's man, letter from, 1019.

-, -, inquiry into nationality of, 1327, 1383.

-, -, 883, 1211, 1346, 1392.

Bevois, 1130, 1162.

Bienvenu, M., [Bonacorsi], 1072, 1104–5, 1177, 1442, 1448, 1461–2, 1478.

Bingham, Richard, letters from, 1196, 1200, 1487.

Biragues Sieur, Charles de, 1578.

Biragues René de, Chancellor of France, 47, 58, 574, 828, 1590, 1609.

Biron, M. de, 605, 633, 664, 669, 721, 1095, 1422.

-, -, reported death of, 862.

Biserta, army at, 1215.

-, captured, 1228.

Bizarro, Petro, letters from, 893, 926, 973, 1029, 1051, 1085, 1195, 1210, 1217, 1220, 1228, 1234, 1238, 1242, 1249, 1258, 1260, 1300.

-, -, 835.

Blacater, a Scotch pirate, 337.

Blackness, Castle of, 203, 232, 241, 256, 421, 740, 744, 749, 753.

-, -, taken, 754.

-, -, soldiers of, hanged, 458.

Blacknol, Segar, 1597.

Blackwell, 472.

Blanco Cape, 989.

Blois, treaty of, 262–75, 375, 378, 417, 418.

Bodenham, Roger, letters from, 1454, 1597.

Bodin, M., 1434.

Boghill, Baron, 791, 826.

Bohemia, 809.

-, King of, 1085.

Boiset, Charles de, letters from, 1254, 1611, 1616.

Boison, M. de, 570.

Boissy, writer of a story of the Wars, 93.

Bouillion, Due de, 1354, 1388, 1449.

Bologna, 470.

Bond, William, 1640.

Bordeaux, Massacre at, 583.

Borderers, The, 505, 604, 613, 621, 626, 630, 744, 819, 826, 866, 1024, 1046, 1055–6, 1071, 1131, 1136–7, 1145, 1171, 1193, 1224, 1297, 1324, 1335, 1411, 1447, 1469, 1507, 1515–8, 1500, 1564–5.

Borders, proclamation on, 1144.

-, smuggling over the, 1227.

Borghesi, Secretary to Don Gerau D'Espes, 44.

Borough Moor, 380, 409, 458.

Borromeo, Cardinal, see Cardinals.

Bossu, Count, 260, 504, 1200.

Bothwelhaugh, James Hamilton of, letter from, 4.

-, -, 505, 740, 1132.

Bothwell, John Hamilton of, 505.

-, James Hepburn, Earl of, 505, 609.

-, -, his possessions, 1225.

Boucquemare, M. de, 887.

Bouchevannes, 584.

Boulogne, 1413.

Boulliargues, M. de, 1101.

Bound Rood, 358, 896.

Bourbon, Charlotte de, Abbess of Jovarre, 168, 189, 1309, 1321, 1336, 1573.

-, Mdlle. de, 438.

-, Cardinal of, see Cardinals.

Boyd, Lord, 251, 668, 749, 763, 780, 856, 876–8, 890, 984, 1188.

Bragadino, 120.

Brampton, Bailiff of, 1563.

Bramydge, 578.

Brand John, Minister of the Cannongate, letter from, 913.

Brandenburg, Albert, Elector of, 658, 1614.

Brantome, M. de, 964.

Brechin captured, 460, 461, 462.

Brie, Horsemen of, 1416.

Brielle, 309, 310, 397, 505.

Briquemault, 610, 623–4.

Bristol, treaty with Spain at, 1527–8, 1577, 1626.

Brittany, advertisements from, 209.

-, proclamation in, 1080.

Broke, 834.

Bromston, Laird of, 484.

Brouage, Island of, 1584.

Broughty Crag, 256, 729.

Browne, Sir Valentine, treasurer of Berwick, letters from, 126, 177, 242, 306, 340, 456, 551, 564, 638, 645, 665, 676, 680, 703, 751–2, 825, 840, 857, 875, 883, 905, 928, 949, 954, 966, 971, 980, 1001, 1017–8, 1022–3, 1031, 1038, 1075, 1120, 1131, 1160–1, 1188, 1193, 1211, 1232, 1240, 1313, 1324, 1335, 1346, 1370, 1376, 1392, 1447.

-, -, letters to, 876, 945, 957, 979, 1019, 1327, 1339.

-, -, 336, 571, 634–5, 670, 749, 803, 833, 853, 858, 1127, 1133, 1166, 1183, 1455, 1643.

-, -, accounts of, 1232–3.

Brown, Thomas, letter from, 309.

Bruges taken, 478.

-, 504, 511.

Brulart, M., Secretary of State in France, 1000.

Brum, Captain, 535.

Brune, Thomas, letter from, 611.

Bruschetto, Antonio, letter from, 843.

Brussels, Customs refused to the Duke of Alva by the merchants of, 176.

Buccleuch, Sir Walter Scott, Laird of, 117, 144, 652, 761, 826, 1047, 1193.

-, -, death of, 1392.

Buchan, Earl of, 430, 460, 462, 632, 738, 744.

Buchanan, George, books of, 23, 27, 859, 961.

-, -, verses of, 238.

-, -, 748, 826.

Bulwiller, 465.

Buren, town of, taken, 1487.

Burghley, William Cecil, Lord, letters from, 356, 840–3, 849, 1327, 1431.

-, -, letters to, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 19, 22, 23, 26–31, 35, &c.

-, -, illness of, 110, 112.

-, -, memorandum by, 393.

-, -, 1123.

Burgos, 1262.

Burgundy, House of, 280, 293.

-, 726, 838.

Burneyside, William, 1497.

Butts, Sir William, letter to, 834.