1, 397. BRILLE, iii. 458. BRISTOL, Boswell and Johnson's visit in 1776, iii. 50; bad inn, iii. 51; Burke its representative, iii. 378; Hannah More keeps a school there, iv. 341, n. 5; Newgate prison, Savage dies in it, i. 164; described by Wesley, iii. 431, n. 1; Dagge, the keeper, praised by Johnson, iii. 433, n. l; Whitefield forbidden to preach in it, ib.; St. Mary Redcliff, iii. 51. BRISTOL, first Earl of, i. 106, n. 1. BRISTOL-WELL (Clifton), iii. 45, n. 1. BRITAIN, ancient state, iii. 333. BRITAIN and Great Britain, Swift dislikes the names of, i. 129, n. 3. BRITISH MUSEUM, library, iv. 105, n. 2; papers deposited by Boswell, ii. 297, n. 2, 307, 399, n. 2; mentioned, iv. 14. British Princes, The, ii. 108, n. 2. BRITON, Johnson's use of the term, i. 129, n. 3; George III gloried in being born one, ib. BROADLEY, Captain, iii. 359. BROCKLESBY, Dr., account of him, iv. 176; Boswell and Johnson dine with him, iv. 273; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254; generosity towards Johnson and Burke, iv. 338; Johnson's physician in 1783-4, iv. 229, n. 2, 230-1, 245, 262-4, 267, 360, 378; attends his death-bed, iv. 399; quotes Shakespeare, iv. 400; Juvenal, iv. 401; instructed by Johnson in Christianity, iv. 414,416; tells him that he cannot recover, iv. 415; bequest from him, iv. 402, n. 2. For Johnson's letters to him, See JOHNSON, LETTERS. BRODIE, Captain, i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466. BROMLEY, i. 241; ii. 258; iv. 351-2, 394. BROOKE, Henry, Earl of Essex, iv. 312, n. 5; Gustavus Vasa, i. 140; subscription raised for him, i. 141, n. 1. BROOKE, Mrs., Siege of Sinope, iii. 259, n. 1. BROOKS, Mrs., the actress, v. 158. BROOKS, unchanged for ages, iii. 250. Broom's Constitutional Law, iii. 87, n. 3. BROOME, William, iii. 427; iv. 49. Broomstick, Life of a, ii. 389. BROTHERS AND SISTERS, born friends, i. 324. BROWN, Dr. John, account of him, ii. 131, n. 2; Athelstan, ii. 131, n. 2; Barbarossa, ii. 131, n. 2; Estimate, ii. 131. BROWN, Launcelot, (Capability), account of him, iii. 400, n. 2; improves Blenheim park, ii. 451; anecdote of Clive, iii. 401. BROWN, Professor, of St. Andrew's, v. 64. BROWN, Rev. Robert, of Utrecht, ii. 9; iii. 288. BROWN, Tom, author of a spelling-book, i. 43. BROWN, ----, Keeper of the Advocates' Library, v. 40. BROWNE, Hawkins, iv. 272. BROWNE, Isaac Hawkins, delightful converser, ii. 339, n. 1; De Animi Immortalitate, v. 156; drank freely, v. 156; parodied Pope, ii. 339, n. 1; silent in Parliament, ii. 339. BROWNE, Patrick, History of Jamaica, i. 309. BROWNE, Sir Thomas, Anglo-Latian diction, i. 221; 'Brownism,' ib., 308; Christian Morals, i. 308; death, on, iii. 153, n. 1; 'do the devils lie?' iii. 293; fortitude in dying, iv. 394, n. 3; Life by Johnson, i. 308, 328; oblivion, on, iv. 27, n. 5; Pembroke College, member of, i. 75, n. 3. BROWNE, Mr., 'a luminary of literature,' i. 113, n. 1. Brownism, i. 221, 308. BRUCE, James, the traveller, ii. 333; v. 123, n. 3. BRUCE, Robert, Boswell's ancestor, v. 25, n. 2, 379, n. 3; not the lawful heir to the throne, v. 204. BRUCE, ways of spelling it, v. 123. BRUMOY, Peter, i. 345. BRUNDUSIUM, iii. 250. BRUNET, ----, ii. 394. BRUNSWICK, House of. See HANOVER, House of. BRUTES, future life, their, ii. 54; misery caused them recompensed by existence, iii. 53; not endowed with reason, ii. 248. BRUTUS, Marcus Junius, i. 389, n. 2. BRUYERE, La, ii. 358, n. 3; v. 378. BRYANT, Jacob, his antediluvian knowledge, v. 458, n. 5; Johnson's knowledge of Greek, v. 458, n. 5; mentioned, iv. 272; v. 303, n. 3. BRYDGES, Sir Egerton, ii. 296, n. 1; v. 384, n. 1. BRYDONE, Patrick, Travels, ii. 346; antimosaical remark, ii. 468; iii. 356. Bubbled, v. 29. n. 6. BUCCLEUGH, third Duke of, v. 142, n. 2. BUCHAN, sixth Earl of, ii. 173, 177. BUCHANAN, George, born solo et seculo inerudito, v. 182; Calendae Maiae, v. 398; Centos, ii. 96; Johnson's retort about him, iv. 185; learning, v. 57; poetical genius, i. 460; ii. 96; mentioned, v. 225. Buck, v. 184, n. 3. BUCKHURST, Lord, v. 52, n. 5. BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, second Duke of, The Rehearsal, ii. 168, n. 2; Zimri, ii, 85, n. 4. BUCKINGHAM, Duchess of, iii. 239. BUCKLES, iii. 325; v. 19. BUDGELL, Eustace, calls Addison cousin, iii. 46, n. 3; Addison wrote his Epilogue to The Distressed Mother, i. 181, n. 4; iii. 46; mended his Spectators, ib.; his suicide, ii. 229; v. 54. BUDWORTH, Captain, iv. 407, n. 4. BUDWORTH, Rev. Mr., i. 84, n. 3; iv. 407, n. 4. BUFFIER, Claude, i. 471. BUFFON, account of the cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2; his conversation, v. 229, n. 1. Builder, The. King's Head, i. 191, n. 5. Bulk, i. 164, n. 1, 457. BULKELEY, Lord, v. 447. BULKELEY, Mrs., ii. 219. BULL, Alderman, Lord Mayor, iii. 459-60; attacks Lord North, iii. 460. BULL-DOG, Dr. Taylor's, iii. 190. BULLER, Mr., ii. 228, n. 3. BULLER, Mrs., iv. 1, n. 1. Bulse, iii. 355, n. 1. BUNBURY, Sir Charles, member of the Literary Club, i.

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