Bellomont, Lord, Governor of New York, 141 
[48], 159, 183 [283], 326 
commission, go [93], 91 [97], 215 
Bentinck, Rudolph, Commander in Chief of 
Jersey, 593 [353] 
Berkeley, Lord John, proprietor of New Jersey, 
64 [413]. 126, 454 
Berkeley of Stratton, Lord, 324, 375 [109] 
Bermuda 
act of 1691 for regulating appeals, 86, 258 
act of 1694 for regulating appeals, 86 
act of 1703 for the liberty of the subject dis- 
allowed, 175, 475 [29] 
act of 1704 for regulating appeals, 258 
act of 1707/8 for regulating appeals, 233 
act of 1744 for establishing Court of Errors, 
258-59 
act of 1761 for rendering more effectual act 
of 1744, 259 
acts disallowed for omission of suspending 
clause, 605 
admiralty jurisdiction, 88 
appeals regulations 
colonial acts, 86, 188, 233, 258, 259 
colonial acts influenced by English acts, 
259 
governors' instruction, 219 [23], 233 
[89], 258, 259 
appeals to Lords Committee, 73 
appeals to proprietors, 51 [332], 74-75 
Assembly, 259 
chancery appeals, 86, 258 
charter, absence of appeals reservation in, 75 
charter vacated, 75 
courts 
Chancery, 258 
Errors, 258, 259 
General Assize, 86, 258, 259 
Governor and Council, 78, 86 
criminal appeals, 307-8 
criminal appeals regulations; governors' instructions, 
84, 240 [128] 
enforcement of Orders in Council in, 342 
extension of acts of Parliament to, 469 [n] 
Governor, see Goddard, Capt. John; Hope, 
John; Popple, William; Richier, Isaac 
governor's instructions, 81, 84, 219 [23], 
233, 240 [128], 258, 259 
intracolonial appeals regulations; colonial 
acts, 86, 258-59 
intracolonial appeals regulations, governors' 
instructions, 78, 109 [218], 219 [23], 
233 [89] 
jurisdiction of Bermuda Company, 74 
partible inheritance on intestacy in, 568 
[240] 
right of appeal established, 75 
vice-admiralty appeals, 188 
see also Proprietary colonies 
Bermuda Company 
jurisdiction, 74 
vacation of charter, 75 
Beverley, Robert, on extension of English law 
to Virginia, 473-74 
Bill of exceptions 
conformity of colonial practice to English, 
353 
content of at common law, 353 
not allowed in English criminal appeals, 111 
omitted from Massachusetts practice, 377 
omitted from New England practice, 310 
see also Writ of error 
Bill of Rights, see Acts of Parliament, Statute 
Wm. &M., St. 2, c. 2 (1689) 
Billop, Captain Christopher, 73 [13] 
Bills of credit, colonial 
depreciation of, 500 
evaluation of, 337-38, 340-41, 502-3 
inquiry of Board of Trade, 601 
legal tender status of, 500, 604 [405] 
regulation by act of Parliament, 495-96, 500, 
599-600, 601, 602 [402] 
regulation by governors' instructions, 599, 
602-3, 605 
suspending clause required, 599, 605 
see also tinder names of particular colonies 
Bird, Sir William, Dean of the Arches, 25 
[159], 29 [183] 
Bingham, Col. John, Governor of Guernsey, 39 
[252] 
Bishops 
in House of Lords, 657 
see also Durham, Bishop of; London, Bishop 
of; Sodor and Man, Bishop of; Winchester, 
Bishop of 
Blackstone, Sir William, Justice of Common 
Pleas 
on extension of common law to colonies, 211 
on legal effect of governors' commissions and 
instructions, 526 
on nature of Bankruptcy Acts, 492 [101] 
on settlement of intercolonial boundary disputes, 
420 
on vice-admiralty appellate forum, 191 
Bladen, Colonel, 599 [391] 
Blair, John, Virginia Judge, 371 [90] 
Blair, William, council clerk, 595 [366] 
Blakiston, Nathaniel, Governor of Maryland, 
commissions, 177 
inquiry as to vice-admiralty appellate forum, 
177-78 
Bland, Giles, 96 
Bland, Richard 
on legal effect of governors' instructions, 616