Grade I listed building in Belton, Lincolnshire, built between 1685 and 1687, seat of the Brownlow family.
Benefit of clergy
Legally enshrined right of any clergyman facing prosecution for a felony in a royal court to have the case heard instead in an ecclesiastical court.
Benefit of Clergy Act 1575
Act of Parliament that removed the right of those charged with rape or burglary to claim benefit of clergy, and so to be tried in an ecclesiastical court.
Bentley Grange
Shaft mounds and earthworks south of Bentley Grange Farm are the remains of a medieval iron mining site between Emley and West Bretton in West Yorkshire.
Bentley’s Miscellany
Illustrated monthly magazine published from 1837 until 1868.
Berners Street hoax
Hoax perpetrated by Theodore Hook in Westminster, England, in 1810. Hook had made a bet with his friend, Samuel Beazley, that he could transform any house in London into the most talked-about address in a week, which he achieved by sending out thousands of letters in the name of Mrs Tottenham, who lived at 54 Berners Street, requesting deliveries, visitors, and assistance.
Bettiscombe skull
Redirected to Screaming skull.
Beware the Cat
First English novel, an anti-Catholic satire published in 1570.
Bile Beans
A laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde.
Black & White (magazine)
Weekly periodical published from 1891 until 1912, when it was merged with The Sphere.
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