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 held that appointment until January 1839, when he resigned on account of failing health. On 14 May 1840 he died at Hyde Park Terrace, London. Lady Bolland, whom he married 1 Aug. 1810, was his cousin Elizabeth, the third daughter of John Bolland, of Clapham. An anonymous satire, ‘The Campaign, to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Britannia in the ear 1800 to C. J. Fox.’ was written by Bolland in 1800, but not issued for sale, the author confining its publicity to his friends. Although he published but little, he was known for many years as an enthusiastic student of early English literature. Dibdin dwells with unction on the pleasures of the dinner-parties of Hortensius—the fancy name by which he designated Sir William Bnlland-and extols the merits of his library. It was at a dinner-party in Bolland’s house on the Adelphi Terrace that the Roxburghe Club was originated, and its first publication was his gift. This was ‘Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenæis turned into English meter. By the right honorable lorde, Henry, earle of Surrey.’ The books were the second and fourth, and the reprint, hearing the date of 1814, though the dedication was signed 17 June 1815, was taken from a copy of the original edition of 1557, which is preserved at Dulwich College. His collections were sold in the autumn after his death, his library of about three thousand articles producing`about 3,000l. The bust of Sir William Bolland is a familiar object to all who have studied in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. A portrait by James Lonsdale is now in the National Portrait Gallery.

 BOLLARD, NICHOLAS (fl. 1500?), naturalist, was the author of a work on arboriculture which is often met with in manuscripts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is entitled ‘A Tretee of Nicholas Bullard departid in 3 parties: 1 Of gendryng of Trees; 2 of graffynge; the third forsoth of altracion,' Two copies are now in the British Museum (Cotton. MS. Jul. D. viii. ; Addit. MS. 5467); another is in the Cambridge University Library (Ee. i. 13 ff. 124 a-129). Bishop More and Halph Thoreshy owned copies of the ‘Tretee,’ which has never been printed. Bale states that Bullard was also the author of a treatise called ‘Experimenta Naturalia,’ and that he saw a copy of the work at the house of Thomas Caius at Oxford, but it is not otherwise known. Tanner asserts that Bullard was educated at Oxford.

 BOLRON, ROBERT (fl. 1674–1680), informer, was a native of Newcastle-on-Tyne. He is stated to have been apprenticed to a jeweller at Pye Corner, London, whom, after a twelvemonth, he abandoned to enlist as a foot soldier. On his return to England from the second Dutch war, he happened to visit an acquaintance who was a servant with Sir Thomas Gascoigne, of Barmbow Hall, Yorkshire, and on his recommendation he was appointed manager of the collieries of Sir Thomas. Through his marriage with Mary Baker, formerly a servant in Sir Thomas's household, he also held the lease of the farm of Shippon Hall. According to his own account shortly after his engagement efforts were made, which, through the agency of his wife, herself a pervert, were ultimately successful, to win him over to the Roman catholic faith. Large bribes were then offered to him to engage in the papist plot against the life of the king, but, realising the wickedness of those designs, he resolved to give information to the local magistrates, on whose refusal to act on it, he hastened to London, and made a deposition before the Earl of Shaftesbury. His statements were corroborated by Lawrence Marbury, a former servant of Sir Thomas Gasnoigna. Maybury had, however, been discharged by his master for theft, and Bolron, on account of his having made free with the money received for coals, had been threatened with prosecution by Lady Tempest, daughter of Sir Thomas Gascnigne. The baronet, who had reached his eighty-fifth year, was, in February 1680, put upon his trial; but although the detailed accusations against him made n considerable impression, a verdict was returned in his favour. [Narrative of Robert Bolron, of Shippon Hall, concerning the horrid Popish Plot; and Conspiracy for the Destruction of his Majesty and the Protestant Religion, 1680; The Papists’ Bloody Oath of Secresy and Litany of Intercession for England, with the manner of taking the oath, upon their entering into any grand conspiracy against the Protestants, as it was taken in the chapel belonging to Barmbow Hall, the residence of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, from William Rushton, a popist priest (1680); An Abstract of the Accusations of Robert Bolron and Lawrence Maybury. servents, against their late Master, Sir Thomas Gascoigne, knt. and bart. of Barmboo, in Yorkshire, for High Treason, with his Trial and Acquittal February 1680 (1680); Attestation of a certain Intercourse had between Robert