BRAMSTON, James, i. 73, n. 3. 
BRANDY, the drink for heroes, iii. 381; iv. 79. 
BRANTOME, v. 55. 
‘BRAVE WE,’ v. 360.
Bravery of the English Common Soldiers, i. 335. 
BRAZIL, iv. 104, n. 3;
  language, v. 242, n. 1. 
BREAD TREE, ii. 248. 
BREEDING, good, ii. 82; v. 82, 211, 276. 
BRENTFORD, iv. 186; v. 369. 
BRETT, Colonel, i. 174, n. 2. 
BRETT, Mrs., i. 166, n. 4. 
BRETT, Miss, i. 174, n. 2. 
BRETT, Rev. Dr. Thomas, the nonjuror, iv. 287. 
BREWERS, thwart the ‘grand scheme of subordination,’ i. 490. 
BREWING in Paris, ii. 396. 
  See THRALE, Henry. 
BREWOOD, iv. 407, n. 4. 
BREWSE, Major, v. 123-5. 
BRIBERY, statutes against, ii. 339. 
BRIDGENORTH, v. 455. 
BRIDGEWATER, Duke of, v. 359, n. 2. 
BRIGHT, John, Speeches, quoted, ii. 480. 
BRIGHTHELMSTONE (Brighton),
  books burnt there as Popish, iii. 427, n. 1;
  Johnson describes it, iii. 92, n. 3;
  finds it very dull, iii. 93;
  does not much like it, iii. 442;
  stays there in 1782, iv. 159-60;
  other visits, iii. 452-3;
  Ship Tavern, iii. 423, n. 1;
  mentioned, iii. 45, n. 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.