Index 
263 
Boston, Bishop of, see Cheverus, Jean Lefevre 
de 
Boston, English at, 75, 234; erection of diocese 
of, 142; founder of Catholic church of, 172; 
letter of priest at, 173; selection of bishop 
of, 146 
Boston Port Bill, 234 
Bottini, registers of, 33 
Botzini, Giovanni Maria, paper by, 117 
Bourgeoys, Sccur Marguerite, 158 
Bourgin, Georges, Les Archives Pontificates et 
VHistoire Moderne de la France, 12 et 
passim ; “ L’Incendie de la Bibliotheque de 
Turin”, 248 n ; “ Liste des Nonces”, 71 n; 
Manuscrits du Fondo Gesuitico, 218 
Braddock, General Edward, defeat of, 240, 242 
Bragadin, Daniele, relation by, 239 
Braidus, Father Petrus, letter of, 195 
Brancacciano archives, 229 
Brancadoro, Cardinal, letter of, 174 
Brazil, documents relating to, 187; missionary 
work in, 203 
Breil de Pontbriand, Henri Marie, bishop of 
Quebec, 257 
Bressani, Brother F. G., history by, 195 
Bretons, corsairs, 114; in Florida, 103; see also 
French 
Briand, Olivier, bishop of Quebec, brief for, 
161; consecration of, 161; correspondence 
of, 140, 161, 170, 184; election of, 191; 
faculties for, 161; form of oath of, 161; 
renunciation by, 163; sickness of, 163; voy¬ 
age of, 161 
Briefs, 250; episcopal, 175, 194; faculties for 
executing, 136; for Canada, 161; for the 
making of new dioceses, 192; in archives 
of secretary of briefs, 43; information con¬ 
cerning, 4, 20-21; Lateran, 31; minutes of, 
43; of indulgences, 49, 161; on slaves and 
negroes, 194; pontifical, 232; register of, 
27-30; secretary of, 4-5, 27-28; to Charles 
II., 132; to princes, 30-31, 106; see also 
names of popes, e. g., Urban VIII., briefs 
of 
British Empire, see Great Britain 
British islands, assigned to religious orders, 
134; request for missions in, 134; vicar 
apostolic in, 143; see also England 
Brom, Dr. G., Archivalia in Italie, 13 n, 26 n; 
Guide aux Archives du Vatican, 13 
Brooke, Lord, see Greville, Robert 
Brown, James, U. S. minister, interview with, 
i8 3 
Brown, Rawdon, L’Archivio di Venezia, 237, 
237 n 
Browne, Father Robert, case of, 168, 177, 178, 
181, 183 n 
Brunetti, Corsino, relation by, 92 
Brurius, Mgr., letter concerning, 176 
Brussels, letters from, 114, 128; nunciature of, 
60, 77-78, 120; papers of nuncios at, 80, 131, 
156, 170 
Buccheri, 208 
Buchanan, James, autograph of, 248 
Buckley, Jacob, vicar apostolic for English isl¬ 
ands, volume by, 185 
Buglione, Cardinal, letters of, 48 
Buil, Fray Bernardo, bull to, 23 
Bullarium de Propaganda Fide, 122 
Bullon, Father Francesco, request of, 134 
Bulls, 106, 250; for California, 223; for erection 
of dioceses, 155, 159, 179, 223; for vicar 
apostolic of Canada, 129; in archives of 
secretary of briefs, 42-43; information 
concerning, 20-21; matrimonial, 26; of 
churches, 218; of indulgences, 35; of jubi¬ 
lee, 214; of monasteries, 230; of motu pro- 
prio, 35; of sixteenth and seventeenth cen¬ 
turies, 35 ; of suspension, 214; pertaining to 
Spain, 24, 35; registry of, 22-23; to Au- 
gustinians, 35; to auxiliary bishop of Cuba, 
222; to Bernardo Buil, 23; to bishops, 25- 
26; to Ferdinand and Isabella, 23, 24; see 
also names of popes, e. g., Paul V., bulls of 
Buoncompagni, Count Hugo, 94 n 
Buoncompagni-Ludovisi family, papers of, 8, 228 
Burchardus, Johannes, Diarium, 203 
Burgoyne, General John, capture of, 75 
Burke, Edmund, vicar apostolic of Halifax, 
143, 176; vicar-general of Quebec, 165 
Cabezas, Juan, bishop of Santiago de Cuba, 
election, and transfer of, 255 
Cabio, Mario, letter of, 65 
Cadiz, agents at, 170 
Caetani family, collection of, 207, 225 
Caetano, Camillo, patriarch of Alexandria, 
nuncio in Spain, 91; correspondence, 59 n, 
92, 105, 107, 215 ' 
Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, 237 n 
Caleppi, Mgr., letter to, 97 
California, 219; bull for, 223; Christianity in, 
169; Dominicans in, 193; Franciscans of, 
223; Jesuits in, 91; missions of, 127, 174, 
219 
Calvert, Cecil (Lord Baltimore), 102; marriage 
of, 211; oath of, 81, 105 ; papers concerning, 
81 
Calvert family, 81 
Camacho y Avila, Didaco, bishop of Guada- 
laxara, letters from, 135 
Cambrai, monastery in diocese of, 135 
Camera, accounts, 31, 90, 118; archives, 31-34, 
202; described, 5; documents relating to, 
45, hi, 209, 215; letters of secretary of, 
105, 108 
Camerarius, see Chamberlain 
Camerino, Pietro, letters of, 105 
Camerlingo, see Chamberlain 
Campanella, Francesco, treatise by, 213 
Campelli, letters of, 69 
Campos, Gregorio Francesco de, bishop of La 
Paz, letters, 186; missions subject to, 140 
Camus du Peron, Dom Charles, mission of, 
126, 190 
Canada, 103, 115; Albergati in, 73; Algonquins 
in, 154; attitude of England towards Cath¬ 
olics of, 162, 164, 165, 166; baptism in, 160; 
