vinces, 341; and a life peerage for
America, ib.; his relations with the
House of Representatives, 344, 345;
speech to the Assembly, ii. 2; his
relations with the Assembly, 1, 2;
his behaviour during the agitation
over the Stamp Act, 7; letter to
Lord Halifax on the riots, 8; to
Richard Jackson, ib.; result of his
remonstrance to the British Govern-
ment, 14; declines the offer of
troops, ib.; his address to the
Assembly, 15; comment of J. Q.
Adams on, 16; of T. Hutchinson on,
ib.; his reply to the Assembly's
reply to his address, 19; letter from,
to General Conway, 20; his objec-
tions to the Stamp Act, 22, 23; and
American representation, 23; re-
quested to undertake the distribu-
tion of stamps, 25; his contemplated
visit to England, 29; approval in
England of his conduct, 30, 31;
exercises his veto on elections to
the Council, 32 et seq.; and Mr.
Hutchinson's seat in the Council,
33, 44; his speech on General
Conway's letter, 38; and British
Ministries, 62; cordiality of his
relations with General Conway and
the Earl of Hillsborough, 64; with
John Pownall and Richard Jackson,
ib.; enemies of, 65; publication of
his despatches, 66, 67; his home
life in Massachusetts, 69 et seq.;
unpopularity of, 78; alleged censure
on him for the use of his negative,'
89, 98; letter from, to the Earl of
Shelburne, 90, 106, 110; vetoes six
members of the House of Represen-
tatives, 91; and the re-introduction
of paper currency, 95; letter from,
to Lord Barrington on American
representation, 102; enjoys respite
from annoyance, 103; libel on,
in the Boston Gazette,' 104-
107; protests against breaches of
faith, 114; reports to Lord Hills-
borough on the riots, 116; im-
peached by the Assembly, 124; and
troops for Boston, 129, 133, 135,
138; his admirers, 130; declines to
summon a new Assembly, 141;
contemplates departure from Massa-
chusetts, 147, 148; offered a baro-
netcy, ib.; his letter to Lord

Hillsborough on quartering troops
in the Manufactory House, 159;
his alleged indifference to the ill-
usage of the Commissioners, 162;

343

re-

his strained relations with British
officers, 167, 168; views of his
conduct, 169-174; accusations of
cowardice against, 174; burnt in
effigy, 175; the patent of his
baronetcy, 182; summoned to
England, 183; the purloining of
his letters, 184 et seq.; attacked by
Samuel Adams, 186; grievances of
the Council against, ib.; his re-
moval petitioned by the Council,
190; the question of his salary,
191; his relations with Lieutenant-
Governor Hutchinson, 192; slights
put upon him, 193, 194; his last
public appearance in Massachusetts,
196; makes known the intended
repeal of duties on glass &c., 197;
embarks for England, 198; American
writers on his character, 198-
200; his interest in Harvard Col-
lege, 200; his arrival in England,
203; reception by the King, 204;
impeachment of, 206-209;
signs the Governorship of Massa-
chusetts, 209; his treatment by
successive Ministries, 210 et seq.;
his reception in England, 210; the
pension awarded him, 210, 211, 213,
234, 268, 269; illness of, 211, 212,
232, 233; appointed a Commis-
sioner of a Board of Revenue in
Ireland, 213, 232; his relations with
Lord Hillsborough, 214, 216, 217;
takes a house in the vicinity of
Hampstead, 230; receives the hon.
degree of D.C.L., 235; picture
of, by Copley, ib.; takes up his
residence at Aylesbury, 236, 237,
241, 242; his friendship with Sir
William Lee, of Hartwell, 237; in
London, 239, 245, 262, 286, 292,
293, 298, 311, 320, 324, 329; as a
raconteur, 240; verses by, 241; his
family, 271 et seq.; he returns from
London to Aylesbury, 285; illness
of, 286, 298, 319; visits Mrs.
Edmunds, 321; is proscribed, 325;
death of, 330

Bernard, Francis (son of Governor
Bernard and Amelia), i. 209; educa-
tion of, 218, 219; accident to, 219;
joins his family at Boston, i. 223,
ii. 69; talents of, ii. 71; failing
health of, 147, 218; death of, 225
Bernard, George, i. 98, 99
Bernard, Gilbert (grandson of God-
frey), i. 4; his marriage, 5
Bernard, Godfrey (of Wanford), armo-
rial bearings of, i. 1; gives three

manors to St. Mary's Abbey, York,
4; migrates to Cambridgeshire and
becomes Lord of the Manor of
Iselham, ib.; his tomb in Iselham
Church, ib.; his descendants and
their wives, 4 (note)

Bernard, Grace. See Shuckburgh
Bernard, Henry (son of Robert of
Iselham), and the Manor of Guils-
borough, i. 7, 8

Bernard, M.D., Henry, i. 2 (note)
Bernard, James, i. 104

Bernard, Jane, i. 39 (note)
Bernard, Jane (daughter of Governor
and Amelia Bernard), i. 209; ii. 74,
230, 273-275; education of, i.
221; at Nether Winchendon, 223-
225, 228; marriage of, ii. 273
Bernard, Joanna, i. 89. See also
Bentley

Bernard, John (son of Robert of Isel-
ham), i. 7; inherits the Cambridge-
shire property, 8; his connection
with Northamptonshire, 9; marries
Ellen Mallory, ib.; is knighted at
Agincourt, ib.

Bernard of Abington, Sir John (son of
Thomas and Margaret), i. 12, 13;
impoverished by the Wars of the
Roses, 15; sells Great Billing, ib.;
death of, 16; sons of, ib.
Bernard, John (son of Sir John), suc-
ceeds to Abington, i. 16, 22; marries
Margaret Daundelyn, 20; adds to
Abington Manor House, 22, 23;
death of, 24
Bernard, John (son of John B. and
Margaret Daundelyn), marries Cicely
Muscote, i. 24; their children, 28;
their religious opinions, 31; his
relationship with John Mauntell,
32; death of, 33; tomb of, ib.
Bernard of Epworth, John, i. 26
(note)

Bernard, John (son of John and

Cicely), marries Mary Haslewood,
i. 34; his son, 35

Bernard, John (son of Francis and
Alice), i. 40

Bernard, John (son of Baldwin), i.
49; a ward of the King, 50; his
travels, 52; marriage of, 53; family
of, 54; his political views, ib.;
marries Elizabeth Nash, née Hall,
59; appointed a Commissioner for
Sequestrations, 60; marriage of his
daughters, 61; knighted, 65, 66;
sells Abington, 66; second widower-
hood of, 69; death of, 70; portrait
of, ib.

Bernard, John (grandson of Baldwin),
i. 55

Bernard, the first Sir John, of Bramp-
ton (son of Sir Robert, of Hunt-
ingdon), i. 79; marriage of, 81;
knighted, 86; re-marries, 89; death
of, ib.; monument to, ib.; daughters
of, 92 (note)
Bernard, Sir John, of Brampton (son
of the second Sir Robert), i. 93
Bernard, John (second son of Governor
and Amelia Bernard), i. 209; ñ. 13,
69, 255, 256, 271, 326; education of,
i. 220, 221; goes to America, 223 ;
his appointment as Naval Officer
to the Port of Boston, ii. 41, 72;
starts in business, 72, 148; and the
non-importation agreements, 219,
220, 223; enmity of the irreconcil-
ables to, 252, 253, 281-283; his
departure to America, 285
Bernard, Rev. Joseph, i. 107, 108
Bernard, Joseph (son of Governor

Francis and Amelia Bernard), i. 210
Bernard, Julia, ii. 226, 238, 284, 290,
306, 323; birth of, i. 235; her
'Reminiscences' of the riots at
Boston, 281, ii. 10, 114; her edu-
cation, 70, 74; her silence as to
the threat to cut off Lady Bernard's
ears, 87; and her home, 217;
health of, 222; pays some visits,
231; at school, 239, 240; her
writings, 280; her engagement, 326
Bernard, Katherine, marries Thomas
Jermyn, i. 9

Bernard, Lucy, i. 80

Bernard, Magdalen, i. 39 (note)
Bernard, Margaret, née Mauntell (q.v.)
Bernard, Margaret Lady, née Scrope,
her relationship with the Royal
Family, i. 13; her widowhood, is;
her will, 19; her position with re-
gard to the arms of the Bernards,
33 (note); her husbands, 347
Bernard, Margaret, inherits Iselham

and marries Sir Thomas Peyton, i.
9; brass of, in Iselham Church, 10
Bernard, Martha, i. 104
Bernard, Mary (daughter of Robert
Bernard and Elizabeth Lillyng),
i. 8

Bernard, Mary (daughter of John
Bernard and Ellen Mallory, after-
wards Le Strange), i. 9

Bernard, Mary (daughter of John and
Cicely), i. 31 (note)

Bernard, Mary. See Haslewood
Bernard, Mary (daughter of Sir Robert,
of Huntingdon), i. 80

Bernard, Mary (daughter of second Sir
John, of Brampton), i. 93
Bernard, Mary (daughter of Thomas
and Sara), i. 98, 103
Bernard, Prudence, i. 39 (note)
Bernard, Richard, i. 26 (note); mar-
riage of, 25

Bernard of Astwood, Richard, i. 41;

signs a remonstrance to King
Charles I., 42, 144

Bernard of Batcombe, Richard, i. 26
(note)

Bernard, Robert (son of the second

William), marriage of, i. 5, 6; pro-
perty owned by, 8; his children, 8
Bernard, Robert (son of Sir John),
i. 18

Bernard, Robert (grandson of John
and Cicely), i. 35

Bernard, Robert (son of Francis, of
Kingsthorpe), receives a baronetcy,
i. 66; education of, 74; marriage
of, ib.; makes Huntingdon his resi-
dence, ib.; appointed justice of the
peace, 75; practises at the Bar, 77;
chosen M.P. for Huntingdon, 78;
political opinions of, ib., 79; offices
held by, 79; re-marries, 80; knighted,
83; created a baronet, 85; death
of, 87; epitaph on, ib.

Bernard, Sir Robert (son of Sir John,
of Brampton), i. 92

Bernard, Sir Robert (son of the second
Sir John, of Brampton), i. 93
Bernard, Sara, i. 98

Bernard, Sara (wife of Francis), i. 104,
106; death of, 110

Bernard, Scrope, ii. 74, 226, 232, 272,
273, 280, 281, 322; enters Christ
Church, Oxford, 290; his friendship
with W. Wyndham Grenville, 326;
birth of, i. 235

Bernard, Shute, i. 223, ii. 222; birth

of, i. 215; characteristics of, ii. 73;
education of, ib.; death of, 74, 89
Bernard, Sir Theophilus, i. 4 (note)
Bernard, Thomas (son of Robert, of
Iselham), i. 7, 8; serves at Agin-
court, 10, 11; the first of the family
styled Esquire, 11; marries Margaret
Mauntell, ib.; succeeds to Abington,
12; brass of, in Clare Church, ib.;
sons of, ib.; death of, 15
Bernard, Thomas (son of Thomas and
Margaret), i. 12

Bernard, Thomas (son of Sir John),
migration to Gloucestershire and
death of, i. 16

Bernard, Thomas (fourth son of Francis,

of Abington), settles at Reading, i.

345

41, 95; date of his birth, 95; h
house in Reading, 96; his life
there, 97; his marriage, 98; death
of, 99

Bernard, Thomas (son of Governor
and Amelia Bernard), i. 210, 223;
his account of New Jersey, 233, 236;
his account of the Constitution of
Massachusetts, 245, 294, 295; on
Harvard College, 298; withdrawn
from Harvard and made his father's
secretary, ii. 67, 68, 72; and the
position of women, 78; his 'Life of
Sir Francis,' 87; takes his degree,
222; failing health of, 230, 231;
verses by, 241; at Milton, 255;
reads for the Bar, 271; obtains an
appointment, 268, 272; his relations
with the younger members of the
family, 280; capability of, 321; his
account of his father's death, 332
Bernard, William (son of Godfrey
Bernard), his tomb in Iselham
Church, i. 4; a juror for the Wapen-
take of Belteshawe, 5
Bernard, William (great-grandson of
Godfrey), his monument in Iselham
Church, i. 5

Bernard, William (son of Baldwin),
i. 49

Bernard, William (grandson of Bald-
win), i. 55

Bernard of Ecton, William, marriage
of, i. 62

Bernard, William (son of Sir Robert,
of Huntingdon), i. 80, 84, 85
Bernard, William (son of Sir Francis
and Amelia), ii. 74, 226, 232, 272,
284, 289, 290, 291; birth of, i. 215;
leaves England, 223; death of, ii.
293, 294

Bernard armorial bearings, the, i. 1;
new quarterings added, 22
Bernards of Abington, the, i. 1-43
Bernards of Brampton and Hunting-
don, the, i. 41, 73, et seq.
Bernards of Chilton and Ashendon,
the, i. 347

Bernards of Iselham, i. 4 et seq.
Bernards of Nether Winchendon, the,
i. 41

Bernards of Nettleham, the, i. 41
Bernards of Reading, the, i. 97 et seq.
Bernards of Upton-on-Severn, the, i.

17

Bernards of Wanford, the, armorial
bearings of, i. 1
Best, J. R., i. 221

Bill of Rights Society, the, i. 93
Bingham, Mr., ii. 314

Birch, Walter de Gray, and Little
Marlow Nunnery, i. 27 (note)
Blackborne, Judge, i. 183; ii. 284
Black Death, the, i. 121

Bladen, Colonel, i. 258
Blagrave, Daniel, i. 101

Blagraves, the, i. 96, 97; and Read-
ing, 112

Blake, Colonel, i. 150

Bland, Mr., ii. 287

Bliss, Mr., ii. 281

Blount, Sir Christopher, i. 140
Blowers, Mr., ii. 281, 284

Boarstall House, i. 150

Bohun, Mary, i. 202
Bollan, Mr., ii. 184, 185
Bosius, i. 114

Boston, Francis Bernard arrives at, i.
249; population of, ib.; climate of,
ib.; extent of, ib., 250; the streets
of, 251; fire at, 251; the 'Province
House 9 at, 252, 253; the State
House at, 253, 254; the 'King's
Chapel' at, 255; proclamation of
George III. at, 267; the Old South
Church at, 278, 279; the 'Triangular
Warehouse' at, 279; the Old
Corner Bookstore at,' ib.; the
aristocratic quarters of, 280; Julia
Bernard's recollections of, 282;
severity of the laws at, 288; life in,
289, 291-295; the newspapers of,
306; outbreak of small-pox in,
328, ii. 84; agitation in, over the
Stamp Act, 8; outrages at, 9;
punishment accorded the rioters
at, 13; and the repeal of the
Stamp Act, 29; again in revolt,
109, 113, et seq.; state of affairs
in, 131; regiments ordered to, 138,
142; arrival of troops off, 151;
and the importation of tea, 252
et seq., 282; outbreak of war at,
283; surrender of, 297

'Boston Gazette,' the, i. 306; ii. 176,
180, 181, 214; attack on Governor
Bernard in, 104; libel in, 216; list
of offenders in, against non-im-
portation agreement, 220

'Boston Massacre,' the, i. 292; ii.
221

Boston merchants, the, wealth of, ii.
58

Boston Port Bill, the, ii. 257, 282

Boston Tea-party,' the, ii. 254, 281
Bosworth, Battle of, i. 16
Botetourt, Lord, ii. 148-150
Botta, Carlo, tribute by, to Governor
Bernard, ii. 173

Boucher, Rev. Mr., ii. 311, 312

Bowdoin, James, i. 300 (note), 315;
ii. 119, 156, 186; made Chairman
of Committees, 33; ejected from
the Council, 188

Bower, Thomas, i. 77
Bowers, Jerathmeel, ii. 32 (note)
Box, Philip, i. 227

Braintree, ii. 54, 55

Brampton, the purchase of, i. 81;
Samuel Pepys at, 85; the mansion
at, 88; family picture at, 88, 89;
the descent of, 94

Brampton Church, monument in, to
Sir John Bernard, i. 89

Brandywine, the victory at, ii. 319
Brattle, William, i. 312
Bretby Hall, ii. 310

Bridgeham, E., i. 308; ii. 224
Bridges, Mr., ii. 281
Bridle, Dr., ii. 314, 315
Brightwell, i. 117, 170, 175
Brightwell's Barrow, i. 170
Brimfield, i. 308; ii. 224
Brington. See Little Brington
British goods, the importation of.
agreements against, ii. 96, 123, 219,
220

British Government, the, incapacity
of, ii. 7; attitude of, over the Stamp
Act, 25; vacillation of, 39, 61, 62,
179; frequent changes in, 62, 63;
fraudulent publication of letters
from, 68; varying policy of, 146
Bromfield, Thomas, ii. 68
Brooke, Lord, i. 146
Brooks, Captain, i. 315
Broom, Mr. Serjeant, i. 64
Brotherton, i. 237
Brown, Elisha, ii. 159
Brown, Hezekiah, i. 205
Browne, Ezechiel, i. 145
Browns of Lincoln, the, i. 205
Bruce, Captain, ii. 206
Bryce, Rev. George, ii. 172
Buckingham, Lord and Lady, ii. 311
Buckingham, progress of Henry VIII.
to, i. 126

Buckingham, the Earls of, i. 130
Buckingham, Humphrey, Duke of, i. 14
Bullyvant, John, i. 52

Burch, Commissioner, ii. 98, 112-114
Burgoyne, General, ii. 319
Burnaby, the traveller, i. 322
Burnes, Mrs. Mary, i. 207

Burnet, Governor, i. 248, 256; ii. 115
Bute, the Earl of, ii. 63, 64

Bynner, Edwin L., on the Old South
Church, i. 279; his account of
courtly functions at the 'Province
House,' 287

CADETS, the company of, ii. 115
Callahan, Mr., ii. 287

Calthorpe, Rev. Dr., ii. 305

Camden, Lord, ii. 133; and Sir Francis

Bernard, 30, 31, 200
Campbell, Lord William, ii. 224
Campion, Colonel, i. 150

Canada, the war between England and
France for the possession of, i. 236,
258

Caner, Dr., ii. 311, 312

Carberry, the Countess of, i. 80
Card playing, the mania for, ii. 261
Carey, Catherine, i. 140

Carlisle, Lord, ii. 320, 321
Carr, Mr. and Mrs., i. 211
Carrington, Lord, ii. 327

Caryl, Ann or Patience, i. 200, 201
Caryl, Dr. Joseph, i. 200, 201; ii. 73
Castle William, i. 282, 283; ii. 7
(note), 119, 223; put in a state of
defence, 26, 129; reduction of the
establishment at, 41; the proposed
seizure of, 139

Catesby, Robert, i. 133

Catesby, Sir William, the wife of, i.
132

Catherine of Aragon's marriage, i.

129

Caucus, the origin of, ii. 48
Caucus Club, the, ii. 56
Caulkers' Club, the, ii. 48
Cave, Sir Charles, i. 168

Cave, Dorothy, marries John Bernard,

i. 40; marries Richard Neale, 47
Cave, Elizabeth, i. 168

Cave, Francis, i. 40

Cave, Sir Thomas, i. 168

Caversham, capture of King Charles
at, i. 100; Queen Elizabeth at,
141

Caves of Stanford, the, i. 40
Chalgrove, i. 145

Chalmers, George, and New Jersey, i.

233, 234; his description of Francis
Bernard, 235; on the issue of paper
money, 242; and Pitt's utterances,
272; and the Duke of Newcastle,
331

Chambers of Hanworth, Mr., ii. 289
Champaynes, the, i. 22

Chandler, Dr., ii. 286, 311, 312, 324
Chandos, the Duke of, i. 179
Charles Edward, Prince, i. 207
Charles I., remonstrance of the Grand

Jury of Aylesbury to, i. 42, 144; in
Northants, 54, 55; at Caversham,100
Charles II., the restoration of, i. 65,
82; visits Reading, 104
Charles, Rev. Samuel, i. 199

Charlett, Dr., ii. 303

347

Charlotte, Princess, marriage of, ii. 242
Charlotte, the yacht, ii. 302
Charnock, Thomas, i. 39 (note)
Charters. See Colonial Charters
Chase, Thomas, ii. 5

Chatham, Earl of, ii. 63, 64, 157; the
Ministry of, 63, 109; last appearance
of, in the House of Lords, 321
Chauncy, Dr., ii. 181
Chearsley, i. 120

Chelsham, Elizabeth, marriage of,
i. 148; death of, 161
Chelsham, John, i. 148

Chesterfield, the Earl of, ii. 307, 308,
315; the house of, 262, 310; mar-
riage of, 310

Chetwynd, John, i. 137

Chetwynd, Thomas, i. 137
Chibnall, Alice, i. 41
Chibnall, Jane, i. 41
Chibnall, John, i. 41
Chibnall, Richard, i. 41

Chibnall, Thomas, i. 42; monu-

mental slab to, 41
Chibnall, Thomas
Richard), i. 43

(grandson of

Chibnall Estate, the, i. 43
Chilton, i. 165

Church, Benjamin, i. 300 (note)
Church registers, disturbance of, i. 102,
103

Clare, Robert Nugent, Viscount (after-
wards Earl Nugent), ii. 311

Clark, Mr., ii. 256

Clarke, Cornelius, i. 198, 199
Clarke, R., ii. 292
Clarke, Ursula, i. 198
Cleverly, Stephen, ii. 5
Clopton, Sir Hugh, i. 58
Cochran, William, i. 61
Coke, Sir Edward, i. 132
Colden, Governor, ii. 22
Collier, Captain, ii. 226, 229
Collinson, General, i. 316 (note)
Collinson, Miss, i. 235 (note); ii. 74
(note)

Colonial Charters, i. 331; the revision
of the, 340; ii. 2

Colonies, the Secretary of State for
the, ii. 64

Common land, appropriation of, i. 127
Coniers, Lady, i. 125

'Continental Congress,' the first, ii.
267

Contyt, or Covert, John, marries
Elizabeth Bernard i. 31 (note)
Conway, General Hon. Henry, ii. 64;
letter to, from Governor Bernard,
20; and Governor Bernard's atti-