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 *tenant of Yorkshire, and governour of Hull, ibid. sent with 2000 men to the relief of Tangier, 181. accepts places under king James, whom he attends to mass, ibid. acquiesces in the revolution, 482. made marquis of Normanby 1694, 482. received into the cabinet council, with a pension of three thousand pounds, ibid. said to have courted queen Anne, when young, ibid. made lord privy seal, ibid. lord lieutenant of the north riding of Yorkshire, ibid. made duke of Normanby, and after of Buckinghamshire, ibid. joined the tories, 483. offered the chancellorship, ibid. lord chamberlain of the household, ibid. after the queen's death opposed the court, ibid. died February the 24th, 1720-21, ibid. his character. ibid. his character as a writer, 484.

Bucolus, his account of Mrs. Busy's economical character and conduct, iii. 154.

Budgel, Eustace, writes the epilogue to Philips's translation of Racine's Andromache, viii. 389.

Buller of Buchan, account of the extraordinary cavity there, ix. 15.

Burman, Peter, his life, vi. 397. born at Utrecht, 1668, ibid. educated at Utrecht, and admitted into the university in his thirteenth year, ibid. his quick acquirement of learning, ibid. becomes a pupil under Grævius, 398. studied philosophy at Leyden, 399. doctor of laws, 1688, 400. travelled into Switzerland and Germany, ibid. collector of the tenths, 1691, ibid. visits Paris, 1714, where he is introduced to Montfaucon, 401. professor of history, eloquence, and the Greek language, at Leyden, 1715, 402. chief librarian at Leyden, 403. died March the 31st, 1741, 404. his character, ibid. catalogue of some of his works, 405.

Burnet, Gilbert, observations on Dryden's answer to his remarks on Varillas, vii. 280.

Business, the neglect of it foolish and pernicious, iii. 348. the folly of a man's attempting to do too much business himself, by which all is neglected: exemplified in the history of Jack Whirler, iv. 204. very seldom reckoned a pleasure, 446.

Bustle, lady, her character expressive of the active scenes of a country life, ii. 244.

Busy, Mrs. the particularities of her character, iii. 154.

Butler, Samuel, assisted Buckingham in writing the Rehearsal, vii. 272. his life, 143. the son of a farmer at Strensham, Worcestershire, ibid. not known whether he was of either university, 144. clerk to a justice of the peace in Worcestershire, ibid. amused himself in musick and painting, ibid. taken into the family of the countess of Kent, ibid. afterwards into the family of sir S. Luke, 145. secretary to the earl of Carbury, and steward of Ludlow castle, ibid. married Mrs. Herbert, ibid. part i. of Hudibras published, 1663, part ii. 1664, ibid. supposed to have been secretary to the duke of Buckingham, when chancellor of Cambridge, ibid. story of his being to be introduced to the duke of Buckingham, by Mr. Wycherley, 146. part iii. of Hudibras published, 1678, ibid. died 1680, and interred in the church-yard of Covent-garden. 147. reported to have received one hundred pounds a year of the treasury, ibid. copy of his monument in Westminster abbey, ibid. three volumes of his posthumous works published, 148. two volumes more, lately, by Mr. Thyer of Manchester, ibid. he ridiculed the establishment of the royal society, ibid. character of his Hudibras, ibid.

Cadency in poetick numbers considered, ii. 442.

Cairne, in Sky, a burying-place, described, ix. 19.

Calder castle, account of, ix. 21.

Calumnies, the difficulty in suppressing, vi. 278.

Camilla, her affected disrelish of the dispositions and conduct of her own sex exposed, iii. 45.

Canaries, islands of, account of the first discovery and settlement of, v. 215. John de Cerda crowned king of the Canaries, ibid.

Candidus, his history, iv. 37.

Cannon, two observations on the danger of, vii. 480.

Cantilenus, his low taste censured, iii. 332.

Captator, a legacy hunter, his history, iii. 413.