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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

INDEX.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
  • Abraham, Noah, and Moses said to have been alchymists, i. 95, 114.
  • Acre besieged in the Third Crusade, ii. 69;
    • its surrender to the Christians, 71.
  • Addison’s account of a Rosicrucian, i. 177;
    • his opinion on duelling, ii. 281.
  • Agricola, George, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 145.
  • Agrippa, Cornelius, memoir, and portrait of, i. 138;
    • his power of raising the dead and the absent, 142.
  • Aislabie, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer, his participation in the South-Sea fraud, i. 73, 78;
    • rejoicings on his committal to the Tower, 79.
  • Alain Delisle. (See Delisle.)
  • Albertus Magnus, his studies in alchymy, i. 99;
    • portrait of, 100;
    • his animated brazen statue destroyed by Thomas Aquinas, 100;
    • his power to change the course of the seasons, 101.
  • Alchymists, the, or Searches for the Philosopher’s Stone and the Water of Life, i. 94-220;
    • natural origin of the study of Alchymy, its connexion with astrology, &c., i. 94;
    • alleged antiquity of the study, 95;
    • its early history, 96;
    • Memoirs of Geber, 96;
    • Alfarabi, 97;
    • Avicenna, 98;
    • Albertus Magnus, with portrait, Thomas Aquinas, 99;
    • Artephius, 102;
    • Alain Delisle, 102;
    • Arnold de Villeneuve, with portrait, 103;
    • receipt for the elixir vitæ ascribed to him, 103;
    • Pietro d’Apone, 104;
    • Raymond Lulli, with portrait, 105;
    • Roger Bacon, 110;
    • Pope John XXII., 111;
    • Jean de Meung, 112;
    • Nicholas Flamel, 113;
    • George Ripley, 118;
    • Basil Valentine, 119;
    • Bernard of Treves, 119;
    • Trithemius, 124;
    • Maréchal de Rays, 125;
    • Jacques Cœur, 132;
    • inferior adepts of the 14th and 15th centuries, 135;
    • progress of the infatuation in the 16th and 17th centuries, 137-189;
    • Augurello, 137;
    • Cornelius Agrippa, with portrait, 138;
    • Paracelsus, with portrait, 142;
    • George Agricola, 145;
    • Denis Zachaire, 146;
    • Dr. Dee, with portrait, and Edward Kelly, 152;
    • Dr. Dee’s “Shewstone” (engraving), 154;
    • the Cosmopolite, 163;
    • the Rosicrucians, 167;
    • Jacob Böhmen, 177;
    • + Mormius, 178;
    • Borri, 179;
    • inferior Alchymists of the 17th century, 185;
    • their impositions, 188;
    • Alchymy since that period, 189-220;
    • Jean Delisle, 189;
    • Albert Aluys, 197;
    • the Count de St. Germain, 200;
    • Cagliostro, 206;
    • present state of Alchymy, 220.
  • Alexius I., Emperor, his treatment of the Crusaders, ii. 17-19;
    • imprisons the Count of Vermandois, 23;
    • is compelled to release him, 24;
    • his fear of the Crusaders, 25;
    • his treachery at Nice, 28;
    • neglects the Crusaders at Antioch, 35, 42.
  • Alexius III., usurping the Greek empire, is expelled by the Crusaders, ii. 77.
  • Alexius IV. made Emperor of the Greeks by the aid of the Crusaders, ii. 77;
    • his deposition and murder, 78.
  • Alexius Ducas (Murzuphlis) chosen Emperor instead of Alexius IV., ii. 78;
    • defeated by the French and Venetians, 79.
  • Alfarabi, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 97.
  • Almanac-makers: Lilly, Poor Robin, Partridge, Francis Moore, Matthew Laensbergh, i. 240.
  • Aluys, Albert, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 97.
  • American laws against duelling, ii. 299.
  • Amsterdam, witches burnt at, ii. 160.
  • Animal Magnetism. (See Magnetism.)
  • Andrews, Henry, the original of “Francis Moore,” portrait, i. 244.
  • Anna Comnena, her notices of the Crusaders, ii. 22, 25.
  • Anne, Queen, duels in her reign, ii. 289;
    • her efforts to suppress them, 292.
  • Antioch, besieged by the Crusaders, ii. 29;
    • is taken by treachery, 32;
    • sufferings of the Crusaders from famine and pestilence, 35;
    • pretended discovery of the Holy Lance (engraving), 37;
    • battle, and defeat of the Turks, 38;
    • retaken by Saladin, 63.
  • Aquinas, Thomas, his studies in Alchymy, i. 99;
    • he destroys an animated brazen statue, 100;
    • his magical performances, 101.
  • Arabia, the chief seat of the Alchymists, i. 96.
  • Arnold de Villeneuve. (See De Villeneuve.)
  • Arras, view of the Town-hall, ii. 101;
    • persecution of the Waldenses at, 115.
  • Art, works of, destroyed by the Crusaders at Constantinople, ii. 79.
  • Artephius, his extravagant pretensions as an Alchymist, i. 102.
  • Astrology, its prevalence in England, i. 243;
    • account of Lilly’s prophecies, 244;
    • its connexion with Alchymy.
    • (See the Alchymists, Dr. Dee, &c.)
  • Augurello the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 137.
  • Augury, an almost exploded study, i. 272.
  • Aurea-crucians, a sect founded by Jacob Böhmen, i. 177.
  • Avicenna the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 98.
  • Bacon, Lord, portrait of, ii. 286;
    • his opposition to duelling, 285, 287.
  • Bacon, Roger, his pursuit of Alchymy, i. 110;
    • his scientific discoveries, 111.
  • Bagnone, Francisco, the magnetiser, i. 272.
  • Bailly, M., his account of Mesmer’s experiments, i. 281, 293.
  • Baldarroch Farm-house, “haunted,” ii. 235;
    • investigation by the elders of the kirk; the noises caused by servant-girls, 237.
  • Baldwin (King of Jerusalem), joins the Crusaders at Nice, ii. 27;
    • becomes prince of Edessa, 30, 41;
    • succeeds Godfrey as King of Jerusalem, 48;
    • bible of his queen (engraving), 50.
  • Baldwin, Count of Flanders, chosen Emperor of the Greeks, ii. 80.
  • Ballads. (See Songs.)
  • Bamberg, view in; witches executed there, ii. 162.
  • Banditti in Italy, ii. 256.
  • Banking schemes of John Law, i. 4.
  • Bank of England, its competition with the South-Sea Company, i. 48, 66.
  • Baptism mocked in the witches’ “Sabbaths,” ii. 109.
  • Barbarin, Chevalier de, his experiments in animal magnetism, i. 286.
  • Barbarossa, the Emperor, commences the Third Crusade; his death, ii. 63, 64.
  • Barthelemy, Peter, his pretended vision and discovery of the “holy lance;” its effect on the Crusaders; battle of Antioch, the Turks defeated, ii. 35-40;
    • charged with falsehood, subjected to the fiery ordeal, and burnt to death, 41.
  • Bastille, the. (See Paris.)
  • Bavaria, ordinance against moustaches, i. 302.
  • Beards forbidden to be worn; religious and political prejudices, i. 296-303.
  • Beckmann’s remarks on the tulip, i. 86.
  • “Beggar’s Opera,” its popularity and immoral influence, ii. 258.
  • Beranger’s Song, “Thirteen at Table,” i. 257.
  • Bernard of Treves, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 119.
  • Best and Lord Camelford, their fatal duel, ii. 297.
  • Bethlehem, Shrine of the Nativity (engraving), ii. 43;
    • Richard I. arrives there; view of the city, ii. 73.
  • Bible of the Queen of Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, (engraving), ii. 50.
  • “Blue Beard,” the Maréchal de Rays his supposed prototype, i. 132.
  • Blunt, Sir John, Chairman of the South-Sea Bubble, his share in the fraud, i. 63, 74, 77;
    • his examination by Parliament, 75;
    • his property confiscated, 81;
    • Pope’s sketch of him, 74.
  • Bodinus, his persecution of witches, ii. 159.
  • Boerhave, his belief in Alchymy, i. 185.
  • Bohemund, his courage displayed in the Crusades, ii. 21, 28, 30, 31, 35, 38, 39;
    • takes Antioch, by treachery in the garrison, 32;
    • is made Prince of Antioch, 32, 41.
  • Böhmen, Jacob, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 177.
  • Bonfires on Tower Hill, on the committal of the South-Sea schemers, i. 79.
  • Booker, an astrologer, notice of, i. 244.
  • Boots, torture of the (engraving), ii. 131.
  • Borri, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 179.
  • Bourdeaux, haunted house at, ii. 221.
  • Bourges, house of Jaques Cœur (engraving), i. 134.
  • Boyd, Captain, killed in a duel, ii. 293.
  • “Brabant Screen,” the, a caricature of the South-Sea Bubble, i. 76.
  • Breda, siege of, i. 270.
  • Bremen, Nadel’s escape from prison, ii. 257.
  • Brinvilliers, Madame de, her atrocious murders; escape from France; subsequent trial and execution, ii. 208-214;
    • relics of her fate anxiously sought after, 305.
  • Brown, Sir Thomas, portrait of; his belief in witchcraft, ii. 151.
  • Bubble Companies, contemporaneously with the South-Sea Scheme, their extravagant character, i. 52;
    • profits of the promoters, 53;
    • declared unlawful, 55, 86;
    • companies dissolved, 57.
  • “Bubble Cards,” or Caricatures, i. 60, 61.
  • Buckingham, Villiers, Duke of, his rise in the favour of James I., ii. 197;
    • portrait of, 198;
    • suspected to have poisoned the king, 201.
  • Byron, Lord, his trial for the murder of Mr. Chaworth in a duel, ii. 292.
  • Byron, Lord, his poetical villains, ii. 259.
  • Cagliostro, memoir of, i. 206;
    • his adventures in London, 209;
    • view of his house, 215;
    • implicated in the theft of the diamond necklace, tried and acquitted, 216-220;
    • again in London, imprisonment and death at Rome, 220.
  • Cagliostro, the Countess, i. 208;
    • his accomplice; her wit, beauty, and ingenuity, 213-216.
  • Cambridge University, annual sermon against witchcraft, ii. 127.
  • Camelford, Lord, killed in a duel, ii. 297.
  • Camhel, Sultan, his generosity to the Christians, ii. 84, 85.
  • Campbell, Major, his duel with Capt. Boyd, and execution, ii. 293.
  • Candlemas Eve, superstitious customs, i. 258.
  • Cant phrases. (See Popular follies.)
  • Cards. (See Fortune-telling.)
  • Caricatures, referring to the Mississippi Scheme (four engravings), i. 25, 29, 37, 40, 44.
  • Caricatures of the South-Sea Bubble (seven engravings), i. 60, 61, 68, 70, 76, 82, 84.
  • Casaubon, his account of Dr. Dee’s intercourse with spirits, i. 155.
  • “Chambre Ardente,” instituted by Louis XIV. for the trial of poisoners, ii. 214, 283.
  • Change Alley during the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 60.
  • Charlemagne, his edicts against witches, ii. 109.
  • Charles I. prevents a duel, ii. 287.
  • Charles II., his disgraceful conduct in reference to a duel, ii. 288.
  • Charles VI. of France, his studies in Alchymy, i. 117;
    • his work on that subject, 136.
  • Charles IX. of France, his patronage of Nostradamus, i. 246;
    • portrait of, ii. 119;
    • his belief in witchcraft, 120.
  • Chaworth, Mr., killed by Lord Byron in a duel, ii. 292.
  • Chemistry, its connexion with Alchymy; valuable discoveries of the Alchymists, i. 207, 221.
  • Children in the Crusades; their personal bravery, ii. 45;
    • are sold to slavery, 81.
  • Children executed for witchcraft, ii. 163, 179, 181.
  • Christina, Queen of Sweden, her patronage of Alchymy, i. 183, 185.
  • Clermont, Urban II. preaches the Crusade there; cathedral of (engraving), ii. 9.
  • Cock-Lane Ghost, history of the deception; views of the “haunted house,” ii. 228, 230.
  • Cœur, Jaques, memoir of, i. 132;
    • his house at Bourges (engraving), 132.
  • Cohreddin, Sultan, his generosity to the Christians, ii. 84, 85.
  • Coke, Chief Justice, portrait of, ii. 199;
    • the poisoners of Sir Thomas Overbury tried by him, 198.
  • Collins, Joseph, contriver of mysterious noises at Woodstock Palace, ii. 224.
  • Comets regarded as omens, i. 223, 225;
    • actually dangerous, 228.
  • Conrad, Emperor of Germany, joins the Crusades, ii. 56;
    • reaches Jerusalem, 60;
    • returns to Europe, 62.
  • Constance, view of the town gate, ii. 116;
    • witches executed there, 117, 160.
  • Constantinople during the Crusades, ii. 17, 23-26, 56, 77-80;
    • view of, 78.
  • Contumacy (refusing to plead to a criminal charge); its severe punishment, ii. 199.
  • Cornhill at the time of the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 51.
  • Cosmopolite, the, an anonymous alchymist, memoir of, i. 163.
  • Cowley’s poetical description of the tulip, i. 86;
    • his lines on relics of great men, ii. 308.
  • Craggs, Mr. Secretary, portrait of, i. 64;
    • his participation in the South-Sea Bubble, 64, 71, 73, 77, 78;
    • his death, 80.
  • Craggs, Mr., father of the above, his participation in the fraud; his death, i. 80.
  • Criminals, anxiety to possess relics of their crimes, ii. 306.
  • Cromwell, Sir Samuel, his persecution of “The Witches of Warbois,” ii. 126.
  • Cross, trial or ordeal of the, ii. 264.
  • Cross, the true. (See Relics.)
  • Crusades, The, ii. 1-100;
    • differently represented in history and in romance; pilgrimages before the Crusades, ii. 2;
    • encouraged by Haron al Reschid; pilgrims taxed by the Fatemite caliphs; increase of pilgrimages in anticipation of the millenium, 3;
    • oppressions of the Turks; consequent indignation of the pilgrims, 4;
    • Peter the Hermit espouses their cause; state of the public mind in Europe, 5;
    • motives leading to the Crusades, 6;
    • Peter the Hermit stimulates the Pope; his personal appearance, 7;
    • council at Placentia, 8;
    • the Pope preaches the Crusade at Clermont, 9;
    • enthusiasm of the people, 10;
    • increased by signs and portents, 11;
    • zeal of the women, 12;
    • crowds of Crusaders, 13;
    • “The truce of God” proclaimed; dissipation of the Crusaders, 14;
    • popular leaders; Walter the Penniless, and Gottschalk, 15;
    • conflicts with the Hungarians, 15, 16;
    • Peter the Hermit defeated; arrives at Constantinople, 17;
    • the Emperor Alexius; dissensions and reverses of the first Crusaders, 18;
    • Peter the Hermit assisted by Alexius, 19;
    • fresh hordes from Germany and France; their cruelty to the Jews, 20;
    • defeated in Hungary; fresh leaders; Godfrey of Bouillon, Hugh count of Vermandois, Robert duke of Normandy, Robert count of Flanders and Bohemund, 21;
    • the immense number of their forces; Hugh of Vermandois imprisoned, 23;
    • his release obtained by Godfrey of Bouillon, 24;
    • insolence of Count Robert of Paris; weakness of Alexius, 25;
    • the siege of Nice, 26;
    • barbarity of the Crusaders and Musselmen; anecdote of Godfrey of Bouillon, 27;
    • Nice surrenders to Alexius; battle of Dorylœum, 28;
    • improvidence and sufferings of the Crusaders, 29, 30;
    • the siege of Antioch, 29, 31;
    • Crusaders reduced to famine, 30;
    • Antioch taken by treachery in the garrison (engraving), 32;
    • the city invested by the Turks, 34;
    • increasing famine and desertion, 35;
    • Peter Barthelemy, his pretended vision, and discovery of the “Holy Lance” (engraving), 35-37, 40;
    • revival of enthusiasm, 38;
    • battle of Antioch, and defeat of the Turks, 38;
    • dissensions, 40;
    • fate of Peter Barthelemy, 41;
    • Marah taken by storm, 42;
    • shrine of the nativity at Bethlehem, (engraving), 43;
    • first sight of Jerusalem (engraving), 44;
    • the city besieged and taken, 45;
    • Peter the Hermit’s fame revives, 46;
    • Jerusalem under its Christian kings, 48;
    • Godfrey of Bouillon succeeded by Baldwin; continual conflicts with the Saracens; Edessa taken by them, 50.
    • Second Crusade:—Society in Europe at its commencement, 52;
      • St. Bernard’s preaching; Louis VII. joins the Crusaders, 53-55;
      • receives the cross at Vezelai (engraving), 54;
      • is joined by Conrad emperor of Germany and a large army, 56;
      • their reception by Manuel Comnenus, 57;
      • losses of the German army, 58;
      • progress to Nice, and thence to Jerusalem, 60;
      • jealousies of the leaders; siege of Damascus, 61;
      • further dissensions; the siege abandoned, 62.
    • Third Crusade:—Progress of chivalry, 62;
      • successes of Saladin, 63;
      • Barbarossa defeats the Saracens, 64;
      • Crusade joined by Henry II. and Philip Augustus, 64;
      • they meet at Gisors (engraving), 65;
      • the Crusade unpopular, 66;
      • delayed by war between France and England, death of Henry II.; Richard and Philip proceed to Palestine, 67;
      • Richard attacks the Sicilians, 68;
      • arrives at Acre, 69;
      • siege and surrender of the city, 71;
      • dissensions, Philip returns to France, Saladin defeated at Azotus, 72;
      • Crusaders reach Bethlehem (engraving), retreat agreed on, 73;
      • Jaffa attacked by Saladin and rescued by Richard, peace concluded, Richard’s imprisonment and ransom, 74.
    • Fourth Crusade, undertaken by the Germans; its failure, 75.
    • Fifth Crusade:—Foulque, Bishop of Neuilly, enlists the chivalry of France; assisted by the Venetians; siege of Zara, 76;
      • Crusaders expel Alexius III. from Constantinople, 77;
      • Alexius IV. deposed, 78;
      • Murzuphlis defeated by the Crusaders and Venetians, 79;
      • Baldwin count of Flanders, elected emperor; Pilgrimages to Jerusalem; children undertaking the Crusade are betrayed to slavery, 80.
    • Sixth Crusade, prompted by the Pope, 81;
      • undertaken by the King of Hungary; pursued in Egypt; Damietta taken, 82;
      • Cardinal Pelagius and John of Brienne, 83;
      • dissensions and reverses; Damietta abandoned, 84.
    • Seventh Crusade:—Undertaken by Frederick II. of Germany, 84;
      • intrigues against him; he is excommunicated, 85;
      • crowns himself King of Jerusalem, 86;
      • supported by the Templars and Hospitallers (engraving), 86;
      • returns to Germany, 87.
    • Eighth Crusade, commenced in France, 87:
      • battle of Gaza; Richard earl of Cornwall; truce agreed on; the Korasmins take Jerusalem, 88;
      • they subdue the Templars, but are extirpated by the Syrian sultans, 90.
    • Ninth Crusade, began by Louis IX., 90;
      • joined by William Longsword (engraving), 91;
      • the Crusade unpopular in England, 91-97;
      • Damietta taken, 93;
      • battle of Massoura; Louis taken prisoner by the Saracens; his ransom and return, 94;
      • excitement in France, 95.
    • Tenth Crusade, by Louis IX. and Prince Edward of England, 95;
      • Louis dies at Carthage, 96;
      • Edward arrives at Acre, 97;
      • defeats the Turks at Nazereth; is treacherously wounded; the legend of Queen Eleanor, 98;
      • her tomb at Westminster (engraving); a truce concluded; Edward returns to England; subsequent fate of the Holy Land, 99;
      • civilising influence of the Crusades, 100.
  • Currency in France, the Mississippi scheme, i. 4.
  • D’Aguesseau, Chancellor of France, his opposition to the Mississippi scheme, i. 11;
    • portrait of; his financial measures, 33.
  • Damascus, besieged by the Crusaders (engraving), ii. 61.
  • Damietta besieged by the Crusaders, ii. 83, 93.
  • Dances of witches and toads, ii. 108, 109.
  • D’Ancre, the Maréchale, executed for witchcraft, ii. 166.
  • Dandolo, Doge of Venice, his encouragement of the Crusaders, ii. 76.
  • D’Apone, Pietro, his studies in alchymy; his command of money; charged with heresy, is tortured, and dies in prison, i. 104;
    • portrait of, ii. 140.
  • D’Argenson, French minister of finance, a supporter of the Mississippi scheme, i. 11, 42;
    • portrait of, 42.
  • Dead, the. (See Raising the Dead.)
  • De Bouteville, a famous duellist, temp. Louis XIII., ii. 280;
    • beheaded by the justice of Richelieu, 281.
  • Dee, Dr., memoir and portrait of, i. 152;
    • his “shew-stone” in the British Museum (engraving), 154.
  • De Jarnac and La Chataigneraie, their famous duel, ii. 273.
  • Deleuze, M., his absurd theories on animal magnetism, i. 291.
  • Delisle, Alain, an alchymist, i. 102.
  • Delisle, Jean, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 189;
    • his success in transmuting metals, attested by the Bishop of Senes, 193;
    • his imprisonment and death, 197.
  • Delrio, his persecution of witches, ii. 159.
  • De Meung, Jean, author of the Roman de la Rose, his study of alchymy, his libel on the fair sex, i. 112.
  • Demons, popular belief in, ii. 105;
  • De Nogent, his description of Peter the Hermit, ii. 7;
    • of the enthusiasm of the first Crusaders, 12, 23.
  • De Rays, Maréchale, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 125.
  • De Rohan, Cardinal, his patronage of Cagliostro, i. 213-215;
    • his connexion with Marie Antoinette and the diamond necklace, 216-220.
  • D’Eslon, a pupil of Mesmer, i. 276, 280.
  • Desmarets, Minister of France, his belief in alchymy, i. 192.
  • Devil, the, old popular notions of, ii. 103;
    • various forms assumed by him, 106, 107;
    • presided at the witches’ “Sabbath,” 108;
    • his appearance to De Rays and Agrippa, i. 129, 142.
  • De Villeneuve, Arnold, his skill as a physician, astrologer and alchymist (with portrait), i. 103.
  • D’Horn, Count, murders a broker, and steals his Mississippi bonds (engraving), i. 21;
    • efforts to save his life, inflexibility of the Regent, his execution, 22, 23.
  • Diamond, famous, purchased by the Regent Orleans, i. 27.
  • Diamond Necklace of Marie Antoinette, history of the theft, i. 206-220.
  • Diamonds worn by the Count St. Germain, i. 203;
    • his power of removing flaws in, 204.
  • Digby, Sir Kenelm, a believer in the virtues of “weapon-salve,” i. 265.
  • Diseases cured by imagination, i. 262, 272;
  • Divination, its popularity; by cards, the tea-cup, the palm of the hand, the rod, and other modes, i. 251.
  • “Domdaniel,” or Witches’ Sabbath. (See Witchcraft.)
  • Dorylæum, battle of, ii. 28.
  • Dowston, John, an English alchymist, i. 136.
  • Dramas on the adventures of thieves; their popularity and evil influence, ii. 253, 257-260.
  • Dreams, interpretation of, i. 253.
  • Dreams on particular nights, i. 258.
  • Dream-books, their extensive sale, i. 254.
  • Du Pompadour, Madame, and the Count de St. Germain, i. 201.
  • Dupotet, M., his account of Mesmer’s experiments, i. 279, 285.
  • Drummer of Tedworth. (See Haunted Houses.)
  • Du Barri, Vicomte, killed in a duel at Bath, ii. 293.
  • Duels and Ordeals, ii. 261-301;
    • the ordeal by combat, or trial by battle, its natural origin; authorised by law, 262;
    • discouraged by the clergy, 263;
    • the oath upon the Evangelists, 264;
    • judgment by the cross, 264;
    • fire-ordeal, 265;
    • ordeals used by modern Hindoos, 265;
    • water ordeal, 265;
    • the corsned, or bread and cheese ordeal, 266;
    • ordeals superseded by judicial combats, 267;
    • duels of Ingelgerius and Gontran (engraving), 269;
    • De Montfort and the Earl of Essex, 270;
    • Du Guesclin and Troussel (engraving), 261, 271;
    • Carrouges and Legris, 272;
    • La Chataigneraie and De Jarnac, 273;
    • L’Isle-Marivaut and Marolles, 276;
    • the Dukes de Beaufort and de Nemours, 282;
    • Count de Bussy and Bruc, 282;
    • frivolous causes of duels, 270, 271, 276, 282, 292, 296;
    • their prevalence in France, 276, 277, 279, 280, 282;
    • the custom opposed by Sully and Henry IV.; council at Fontainebleau (engraving), and royal edict, 277-279;
    • efforts of Richelieu to suppress duelling, 280;
    • De Bouteville, a famous duellist, beheaded by the justice of Richelieu; opinion of Addison on duelling, 281;
    • duels in Germany, 282;
    • severe edict by Louis XIV., 283;
    • singular laws of Malta, 284;
    • judicial combat in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; Lord Bacon opposes duelling, 285;
    • Lord Sanquir’s duel with Turner; his execution for murder; combat between Lord Reay and David Ramsay prevented by Charles I., 287;
    • Orders of the Commonwealth and Charles II. against the practice; Duke of Buckingham’s duel with Earl Shrewsbury; disgraceful conduct of Charles II., 288;
    • practice of seconds in duels fighting as well as principals, 280, 288;
    • arguments of Addison, Steele, and Swift, 288;
    • duels in England; Sir C. Deering and Mr. Thornhill; Duke of Marlborough and Earl Pawlet; Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun; trial of General Macartney, 289-292;
    • Wilson killed by John Law, i. 3;
    • Mr. Chaworth killed by Lord Byron, ii. 292;
    • Vicomte Du Barri by Count Rice, the Duke of York and Colonel Lennox, 293;
    • Irish duels, 294;
    • Major Campbell executed for the death of Captain Boyd, 296;
    • Macnamara and Montgomery; duels of German students, 297;
    • Best and Lord Camelford, 297;
    • Frederick the Great and Joseph II. of Austria opposed to duelling, 298;
    • other European edicts; laws of America, 299;
    • general reflections, 300.
  • Du Guesclin and Troussel, their duel (engraving,) ii. 261, 271.
  • Du Fresnoy’s history of the Hermetic Philosophy, i. 95, 96.
  • Duncan, Gellie, and her accomplices tried for witchcraft; their absurd confessions, ii. 129-135.
  • Duval, Claude, popular admiration of; Butler’s ode to his memory, ii. 255.
  • Earthquakes prophesied in London, i. 224, 230.
  • Edessa taken by the Crusaders, ii. 30;
    • retaken by the Saracens, 50.
  • Edward I., his great seal (engraving), ii. 97.
  • Edward II. joins the last Crusade, ii. 95;
    • arrives at Acre, 97;
    • treacherously wounded, 98;
    • his patronage of Raymond Lulli the alchymist, i. 108;
    • its supposed motive, 135.
  • Edward IV., his encouragement of alchymy, i. 135.
  • Edward VI., his patronage of Dr. Dee, i. 152.
  • Egypt, the Crusaders in, ii. 83, 84, 90, 92, 93.
  • Elias claimed as a Rosicrucian, i. 175.
  • Elixir Vitæ. (See Alchymists.)
  • Eleanor, Queen of Edward II., her tomb at Westminster (engraving), ii. 99.
  • Elizabeth, Queen, her patronage of Dr. Dee, i. 153, 162.
  • Elwes, Sir Jervis, his participation in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, his execution, ii. 194, 197, 199.
  • End of the world prophesied in the year 999, i. 222;
    • by Whiston in 1736, 223.
  • Epigrams on John Law and the Mississippi Scheme, i. 24, 37.
  • Essex, Countess of, afterwards Countess of Somerset. (See Somerset.)
  • Executions for witchcraft. (See Witchcraft.)
  • Ezekiel claimed as a Rosicrucian, i. 175.
  • Falling stars regarded as omens, i. 223;
    • falling stars and other meteors before the Crusades, ii. 11.
  • Faria, the Abbé, the magnetiser, i. 294.
  • Fashion of short and long hair, beards, and moustaches, i. 296-303.
  • Female Crusaders. (See Women.)
  • Feudalism at the commencement of the Crusades, ii. 5.
  • Fian, Dr., tortured for witchcraft, ii. 131.
  • Finance in France; the Mississippi scheme, i. 2, 6.
  • Fire-ordeal. (See Duels and Ordeals.)
  • Flamel, Nicholas, the alchymist, memoir of i. 113.
  • Florimond on the prevalence of witchcraft, ii. 115.
  • Flowers, fruits, and trees, their significance in dreams, i. 254.
  • Fludd, Robert, the father of the English Rosicrucians, memoir of, i. 173;
    • introduces “weapon-salve” in England, 265.
  • Follies of great cities; cant, or slang phrases, ii. 239-248.
  • Fontainebleau, council held by Henry IV. and edict against duelling (engraving), ii. 278.
  • Food, its necessity denied by the Rosicrucians, i. 176.
  • Forman, Dr., his participation in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 194.
  • Fortune-Telling, i. 242-258;
    • presumption of man; his anxiety to penetrate futurity, 242.
    • Judicial astrologers: Lilly, 243.
    • Astrology in France, Louis XI., Catherine de Medicis, Nostradamus (portrait), 246;
    • the Medici family, 247;
    • Antiochus Tibertus, 247;
    • horoscope of Louis XIV. 249;
    • Kepler’s excuse for astrology, 249.
    • Necromancy, Geomancy, Augury, Divination, 250;
    • various kinds of divination; cards, the palm, the rod, &c., 251;
    • interpretation of dreams, 253.
  • Foulque, Bishop of Neuilly, promoter of the fifth Crusade, ii. 76.
  • France, its finances in the eighteenth century; the Mississippi scheme, i. 5, 6;
    • the Crusade preached there, ii. 8;
    • the cathedral of Clermont (engraving), ii. 9;
    • executions for witchcraft, ii. 119, 122, 174;
    • existing belief in witchcraft there, ii. 189;
    • the slow poisoners in, ii. 208;
    • immense rage for duelling in France, 276, 277, 279, 280;
    • alchymy in France. (See the Alchymists, Paris, Tours, &c.)
  • Franklin, an apothecary, his participation in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195, 198, 199.
  • Frederick the Great, his opposition to duelling, ii. 298.
  • Frederick II., Emperor of Germany, undertakes the Crusade, ii. 84;
    • crowns himself king at Jerusalem, 86;
    • returns to Germany, 87.
  • Frederick III. of Denmark, his patronage of alchymy, i. 183.
  • Gambling speculations. (See Mississippi Scheme and South-Sea Bubble.)
  • Garinet, Jules, his Histoire de la Magie en France, ii. 105, 109, 122, 189, 221.
  • Gateway of Merchant-Tailors’ Hall, with South-Sea speculators (engraving), i. 62.
  • Gay, the poet, his shares in the South-Sea Company, i. 65.
  • Geber, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 96;
    • his scientific discoveries; English translation of his work, 97.
  • Geomancy described, i. 250.
  • Geoffrey, M., his exposure of the tricks of alchymists, i. 188.
  • George I., his speeches and proclamation on the South-Sea Bubble, i. 47-55, 69;
    • his grief on the death of the Earl of Stanhope, i. 75.
  • George III. refuses to pardon Major Campbell for the death of Capt. Boyd in a duel, ii. 294.
  • Germany, executions for witchcraft, ii. 118;
    • duelling in, 282, 298;
    • alchymy in, encouraged by the emperors, i. 119, 135, 158;
    • the Rosicrucians in, 178;
    • animal magnetism in, 290.
  • Gesner, Conrad, the first tulip cultivator, portrait of, i. 85.
  • Ghosts. (See Haunted Houses.)
  • Gibbon, Edward, grandfather of the historian, his participation in the South-Sea fraud, i. 73, 77;
    • heavily fined, 81;
    • his grandson’s account of the proceedings, 81.
  • Gisors, meeting there of Henry II. and Philip Augustus (engraving), ii. 65.
  • Glanvill, Rev. J., his work on witchcraft, ii. 148, 224.
  • Glauber, an alchymist, i. 187.
  • Glen, Lincolnshire, belief in witches there, ii. 185.
  • Gnomes. (See the Rosicrucians.)
  • Godfrey of Bouillon, his achievements in Palestine (engraving), ii. 21-24, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39, 42, 46, 48.
  • Gold, sought by the Alchymists. (See Alchymists.)
  • Gottschalk, a leader of the Crusaders, ii. 15, 20.
  • Gowdie, Isabel, her confession of witchcraft, ii. 136.
  • Grafton’s Chronicle, account of Peter of Pontefract, i. 235.
  • Greatraks, Valentine, his wonderful cures, i. 269-272.
  • Great Seal of Edward I. (engraving), ii. 97.
  • Gregorian chant, its merit tested by the ordeal of fire, ii. 266.
  • Guise, the Duke of, his attempt to poison Gennaro Annese, ii. 202.
  • Guizot, M., his remarks on the Crusades, ii. 51.
  • Gustavus Adolphus an alchymist, i. 187.
  • Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, besieges Acre, ii. 69.
  • Hair, its length influenced by religious and political prejudices; legislative enactments, i. 296;
    • short hair of the Normans (engraving), i. 297, 303;
    • St. Wulstan’s antipathy to long hair, 297;
    • Serlo cuts off the hair of Henry I. (engraving), 296, 298;
    • Louis VII. and his queen, 299;
    • William “Longbeard,” 300;
    • Roundheads and Cavaliers, 301;
    • Peter the Great taxes beards, 301.
  • Hale, Sir Matthew, portrait of, ii. 148;
    • his belief in witchcraft, 157.
  • Hamilton, Duke of, his duel with Lord Mohun, ii. 290.
  • Harcouet, his receipt for the Elixir Vitæ, i. 103.
  • Harley, Earl of Oxford, the originator of the South-Sea Company, portrait of, i. 46.
  • Haroun al Reschid, the Caliph, his encouragement of Christian pilgrims, ii. 3.
  • Hastings, recent belief in witchcraft there, ii. 187.
  • Hatton, Lady, her reputation for witchcraft; her house in Hatton Garden, (engraving), ii. 186.
  • “Haunted Houses,” popular belief in, ii. 217-238;
    • a house at Aix la Chapelle, cause of the noises discovered, ii. 218;
    • alarm caused by a rat, 219;
    • the monks of St. Bruno, their trick to obtain the haunted palace of Vauvert, 220;
    • houses at Tours and Bordeaux, 221;
    • the story of Woodstock Palace, 222;
    • Mr. Mompesson’s house at Tedworth, 224;
    • the “Cock Lane Ghost,” history of the deception; believed in by the learned (engravings), 228;
    • the Stockwell ghost, 234;
    • Baldarroch farm-house, 235;
    • effect of education and civilisation, 238.
  • Hawkins, Mr., engravings from his Collection of Caricatures, i. 29, 44.
  • Haygarth, Dr., his exposure of Perkins’s “Metallic Tractors,” i. 289.
  • Hell, Father, his magnetic cures; his connexion with Mesmer, i. 283.
  • Henry I., his hair cut short by Serlo, his chaplain (engraving), i. 262, 264.
  • Henry II. joins the third crusade (engraving), ii. 64.
  • Henry VI. issues patents to encourage alchymy, i. 118, 135.
  • Henry VIII., his invitation to Cornelius Agrippa, i. 140.
  • Henry, Prince, son of James I. suspected to have been poisoned, ii. 200.
  • Henry II. of France, his patronage of Nostradamus, i. 246;
    • said to have prohibited duelling, ii. 273, 275;
    • his death in the lists, 276.
  • Henry IV. of France, portrait of, ii. 277;
    • his opposition to duelling, 277, 279.
  • Hermes Trismegistus, the founder of alchymy, i. 95.
  • Hermetic Philosophy. (See the Alchymists.)
  • Heydon, John, an English Rosicrucian, i. 175.
  • Heywood, his life and prophecies of Merlin, i. 233.
  • Highwaymen. (See Thieves.)
  • Hogarth’s caricature of the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 82.
  • Holland, the tulip mania. (See Tulip Mania.)
  • Holloway’s lectures on animal magnetism, i. 287.
  • Holt, Chief Justice, his opposition to the belief in witchcraft, ii. 152.
  • “Holy Lance,” the, its pretended discovery (engraving), ii. 37.
  • Hopkins, Matthew, the “witch-finder general,” his cruelty and retributive fate, (engraving), ii. 143-146.
  • Horoscope of Louis XIV., i. 249.
  • Hugh count of Vermandois imprisoned at Constantinople, ii. 21, 23;
    • at the siege of Nice, 26;
    • quits the Crusaders, 42.
  • Human remains ingredients in charms and nostrums, i. 272.
  • Hungary plundered by the Crusaders, ii. 15, 16, 20, 21.
  • Hutchinson, Dr., his work on witchcraft, ii. 123.
  • Imps in the service of witches. (See Demons and Witchcraft.)
  • Ingelgerius count of Anjou, his duel with Gontran (engraving), ii. 269.
  • Innocent III. and IV., promoters of the Crusades, ii. 75, 80, 81.
  • Innocent VIII., his bull against witchcraft, ii. 117.
  • Innspruck, view of (engraving), i. 181.
  • Invisibility pretended by the Rosicrucians, i. 169, 178.
  • Isaac Comnenus attacked by Richard I., ii. 69.
  • Isaac of Holland, an alchymist, i. 136.
  • Isnik, the Crusaders defeated at (with view of Isnik), ii. 19.
  • Italy, slow poisoning in (see Poisoning);
    • the banditti of, ii. 256.
  • Jaques Cœur the alchymist, memoir of, i. 132.
  • Jaffa besieged by Saladin, and saved by Richard I., ii. 74;
    • view of, ii. 89;
    • defended by the Templars against the Korasmins, ii. 90.
  • James I., his belief in the virtue of “weapon salve,” i. 266;
    • portrait of, ii. 134;
    • charges Gellie Duncan and others with witchcraft, 129;
    • their trial, confessions and execution, 129-135;
    • his work on “Demonology,” 139;
    • his supposed secret vices; his favoritism to the Earl of Somerset, the poisoner of Sir Thomas Overbury; himself thought to have died by poison, 193-202;
    • his severity against duelling, 287.
  • Jean De Meung. (See De Meung.)
  • Jerusalem (and see Crusades), engravings, ii. 44, 47, 49;
    • first pilgrims to, ii. 2;
    • besieged and taken by the Crusaders, 45;
    • its state under the Christian kings, 48, 49;
    • council of the second Crusade there, 60;
    • captured by Saladin, 63.
  • Jewell, Bishop, his exclamations against witchcraft, ii. 124.
  • Jews plundered and murdered by the Crusaders, ii. 20.
  • Joan of Arc, her execution (engraving), ii. 114.
  • John XXII. (Pope), his study of Alchymy, i. 111.
  • Johnson, Dr., on the “Beggar’s Opera,” ii. 258.
  • Joseph II. of Austria, his opposition to duelling, ii. 298.
  • Judicial astrology. (See Astrology.)
  • Judicial combats. (See Duels.)
  • Karloman, King of Hungary, his contest with the Crusaders, ii. 20.
  • Kelly, Edward, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 152.
  • Kendal, Duchess of, her participation in the South-Sea fraud, i. 76, 77.
  • Kent, Mr., accused of murder by the “Cock Lane Ghost,” ii. 229.
  • Kepler, his excuse for astrology, i. 250.
  • Kerbogha, leader of the Turks defeated at Antioch, ii. 34, 38, 39.
  • Kerr, Robert, afterwards Earl of Somerset. (See Somerset.)
  • Kircher abandons his belief in alchymy, i. 185, 183;
    • his belief in magnetism as a remedy for disease, 264.
  • Knight, ——, Treasurer of the South-Sea Company, his apprehension and escape, i. 76.
  • Knox, John, portrait of; accused of witchcraft, ii. 128.
  • Koffstky, a Polish alchymist, i. 136.
  • Labourt, France, 200 witches executed, ii. 166.
  • La Chataigneraie and De Jarnac, their famous duel, ii. 273.
  • La Chaussée, the accomplice of Madame de Brinvilliers, his execution, ii. 212.
  • Lady-day, superstitions on, i. 258.
  • Lamb, Dr., the poisoner, attacked and killed in the streets (engraving), ii. 202.
  • “Lancashire witches” executed, ii. 141.
  • Laski, Count Albert, his reception by Queen Elizabeth, his studies in alchymy, i. 155;
    • is victimised by Dee and Kelly, 157.
  • Lavigoreux and Lavoisin, the French poisoners executed, ii. 215.
  • Law, J., projector of the Mississippi scheme, his romantic history, i. 1;
    • his house in the Rue de Quincampoix, Paris (engraving), i. 13.
  • Law, Wm., his participation in the Mississippi scheme, i. 9, 42.
  • Le Blanc, the Abbé, on the popularity of Great Thieves, ii. 251.
  • Lennox, Col., his duel with the Duke of York, ii. 293.
  • Liège, Madame de Brinvilliers arrested there, ii. 213.
  • Lille, singular charges of witchcraft at, ii. 169.
  • Lilly, the astrologer, account of, i. 243.
  • Lipsius, his passion for tulips, i. 86.
  • London, the plague of 1665, i. 228;
  • Longbeard, William, cause of his name, i. 300.
  • Longsword, William (engraving), joins the ninth Crusade, ii. 91.
  • Loudun, the curate of, executed for witchcraft, ii. 168.
  • Louis VII. cuts short his hair, and loses his queen, i. 299;
    • joins the Crusaders, ii. 53;
    • is consecrated at St. Denis, 55;
    • reaches Constantinople and Nice, 58;
    • his conflicts with the Saracens, 59;
    • arrival at Jerusalem, 60;
    • his sincerity as a Crusader, 61;
    • returns to France, 62.
  • Louis IX. undertakes the ninth Crusade, ii. 90;
    • his valour at the battle of Massoura, 94;
    • taken prisoner, 94;
    • his ransom and return, 94;
    • his second Crusade, 95;
    • effigy of (engraving), 220.
  • Louis XI., his encouragement of astrologers, i. 246.
  • Louis XIII., prevalence of duelling in his reign, ii. 280.
  • Louis XIV., his bigotry and extravagance, i. 5, 6;
    • remonstrated with by his Parliament on his leniency to supposed witches, ii. 171;
    • portrait of, 177;
    • establishes the “chambre ardente” for the trial of poisoners, 214, 283;
    • his horoscope, 249;
    • his severe edict against duelling, 283.
  • Louis XV., his patronage of the Court St. Germain, i. 201, 204.
  • “Loup-garou” executed in France, ii. 120.
  • Loutherbourg, the painter, his alleged cures by animal magnetism, i. 288.
  • Lulli, Raymond, a famous alchymist, his romantic history, with portrait, i. 105;
    • his treatment by Edward II., 135.
  • Lyons, view of, ii. 160.
  • Macartney, General, second to Lord Mohun, his trial for murder, ii. 292.
  • Mackenzie, Sir George, portrait of, ii. 138;
    • his enlightened views on witchcraft, 137.
  • Macnamara and Montgomery, frivolous cause of their fatal duel, ii. 297.
  • Magnetisers, the, i. 262-295;
    • effect of imagination in the cure of diseases, i. 262, 272.
    • Mineral Magnetism: Paracelsus its first professor, 263;
    • diseases transplanted to the earth; Kircher; “weapon-salve,” 264;
    • controversy on its merits, 265;
    • Sir Kenelm Digby’s “powder of sympathy,” 266;
    • other delusions, 268.
    • Animal Magnetism: wonderful cures by Valentine Greatraks, i. 269-272;
    • Francisco Bagnoni, Van Helmont, Gracian, Baptista Porta, &c., 272;
    • Wirdig, Maxwell, 273;
    • the convulsionaires of St. Medard, i. 273;
    • Father Hell, 274;
    • Anthony Mesmer, his history and theory, 275;
    • Mesmer, 276-283;
    • D’Eslon adopts his views, 278, 280, 281;
    • encouragement to depravity afforded by his experiments, 282, 293;
    • exposures by MM. Dupotet and Bailly, 279, 281;
    • Marquis de Puysegur, 283;
    • Chevalier de Barbarin, 286;
    • Mainauduc, Holloway, Loutherbourg, 287, 288;
    • Perkins’s “Metallic Tractors” exposed by Dr. Haygarth, 289;
    • absurd theories of Deleuze, 291;
    • the Abbé Faria, fallacies of the theory of, 294.
  • Mainauduc, Dr., his experiments in animal magnetism, i. 287.
  • Malta, its singular laws on duelling, ii. 284.
  • Mansfield, Lord, trial of the “Cock-lane Ghost” conspirators before him, ii. 234.
  • Manuel Comnenus, his treatment of the Crusaders, ii. 56, 58, 59.
  • Marie Antoinette, history of the diamond necklace, i. 216-220.
  • Marlborough, Duke of, his duel with Earl Pawlet, ii. 289.
  • Massaniello, relics of his fate treasured by the populace, ii. 305.
  • Massoura, battle of, the Saracens defeated, ii. 94.
  • Mayer, Michael, his report on the Rosicrucian doctrines, i. 168.
  • Maxwell, William, the magnetiser, i. 273.
  • Medicis, Catherine di, her encouragement of astrologers, i. 246.
  • Medici family, predictions respecting them, i. 247.
  • Merchant Taylors’ Hall, view of gateway, i. 62.
  • Merlin, his pretended prophecies, i. 232;
    • his miraculous birth, 236;
    • Spenser’s description of his cave, 237.
  • Mesmer, Anthony, the founder of animal magnetism, his history and theory, i. 275;
    • his theory and practice, 276;
    • elegance of his house at Paris, 278;
    • infatuation of his disciples, 282.
  • Metals, transmutation of. (See Alchymists.)
  • Meteoric phenomena, their effect in inciting to the Crusades, ii. 3, 11.
  • Meteors regarded as omens, i. 223.
  • Milan, plague of 1630 prophesied, i. 225;
    • fear of poisoners, Mora and others executed, 226;
    • appearance of the devil, 227.
  • Millenium, the, universally expected at the end of the tenth century, ii. 3.
  • Mississippi Scheme, the, its history, i. 1-44;
    • financial difficulties in France, expedients of the Regent Orleans, i. 6;
    • official peculation and corruption, 7;
    • John Law’s propositions; his French cognomen, “Lass;” his bank established, 9;
    • his notes at a premium; branch banks established; Mississippi trading company established; bank made a public institution; extensive issue of notes, 10;
    • opposition of the Parliament, 11;
    • the Regent uses coercion; Mississippi shares rise, 12;
    • the Company of the Indies formed; magnificent promises; immense excitement and applications for shares; Law’s house in the Rue de Quincampoix (engraving), 13;
    • hunchback used as a writing-desk (engraving), 15;
    • enormous gains of individuals, 14, 16, 19, 20, 26;
    • Law’s removal to the Place Vendôme, 14;
    • continued excitement, 15;
    • removal to the Hotel de Soissons (engraving), 15;
    • noble and fashionable speculators, 17;
    • ingenious schemes to obtain shares (engraving), 18;
    • avarice and ambition of the speculators; robberies and murders, 20;
    • a broker murdered by Count d’Horn, and robbed of shares (engraving), 21;
    • temporary stimulus to trade, and illusive prosperity; Law purchases estates, and turns Catholic, 24;
    • his charity and modesty, 25;
    • caricatures of him, as Atlas, 25;
    • “Lucifer’s new row barge,” 29;
    • in a car drawn by cocks, 40;
    • increase of luxury in Paris, 26;
    • the Regent purchases the great diamond, 27;
    • symptoms of distrust; coin further depreciated, 28;
    • use of specie forbidden, at Law’s suggestion, 29;
    • popular hatred excited, 30;
    • fall of shares, 31;
    • conscription for the Mississippi gold mines (engraving), 31;
    • further issue of notes, and increased distrust and distress, 32;
    • payment stopped, and Law dismissed from the ministry, 33;
    • his danger from the populace, 33, 35, 38;
    • D’Aguesseau’s measures to restore credit (portrait), 34;
    • run on the Bank, 34;
    • fatal accidents in the crowd, 34;
    • the Mississippi and India companies deprived of their privileges, 39;
    • Law leaves France, 40;
    • D’Argenson’s dismissal and unpopularity, 42;
    • Law’s subsequent history and death, 43;
    • caricatures of the scheme in its success and failure, 25, 29, 37, 40, 44.
  • Modern prophecies, i. 222-241.
  • Mohra, in Sweden, absurd charges of witchcraft, and numerous executions, ii. 177.
  • Mohun, Lord, his duel with the Duke of Hamilton, ii. 290.
  • Mompesson, Mr., his “haunted house” at Tedworth, ii. 224.
  • Money Mania. (See the Mississippi Scheme and South-Sea Bubble.)
  • Montesquieu “Esprit des Loix,” ii. 262-267.
  • Montgomery and Macnamara, frivolous cause of their fatal duel, ii. 297.
  • More, Hannah, on animal magnetism, i. 287.
  • Mormius, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 178.
  • Mortlake, Dr. Dee’s house at, i. 153, 162.
  • Moses cited by alchymists as an adept, i. 95;
    • claimed as a Rosicrucian, 175.
  • Moustaches, fashion of wearing, i. 302.
  • Mummies, an ingredient in charms and nostrums, i. 271.
  • Munting’s history of the tulip mania, i. 87.
  • Nadel, Mausch, a German robber, ii. 257.
  • Naiades. (See the Rosicrucians.)
  • Nantwich, Nixon’s prophecy of its fate, i. 240.
  • Naples, arrest and execution of La Tophania, the slow poisoner, ii. 207.
  • Napoleon’s willow at St. Helena and other relics, ii. 307.
  • Naudé, Gabriel, his exposure of the Rosicrucians, i. 173.
  • Necromancy, its connexion with alchymy, i. 129;
    • danger of its practice, 250.
  • New England, women, a child, and a dog, executed as witches, ii. 180.
  • Nice besieged by the Crusaders, ii. 26.
  • Nixon, Robert, the Cheshire prophet, i. 238.
  • Noah, the patriarch, a successful alchymist, i. 95.
  • Noises. (See Haunted Houses.)
  • Normandy, witches in, ii. 172.
  • Nostradamus, the astrologer; his prophecies (portrait), i. 246.
  • Oath on the Evangelists and holy relics, a test of innocence, ii. 264.
  • Odomare, a French alchymist, i. 136.
  • Official peculation in France under the Regent Orleans, i. 7.
  • Omens: winding-sheets, howling dogs, death-watch, “coffins,” shivering, walking under ladders, upsetting salt, thirteen at table, piebald horses, sneezing, dogs, cats, bees, itching; Oriental belief in omens, i. 255.
  • Oneiro-criticism; interpreting dreams. (See Dreams.)
  • Ordeals. (See Duels and Ordeals.)
  • Orleans, Duke of. (Regent of France) portrait of; his patronage of the Mississippi Scheme, i. 5;
    • his financial errors, 10, 12, 33, 41;
    • enforces the execution of Count D’Horn for murder, 23;
    • his purchase of the celebrated diamond, 27;
    • his ill-treatment of Law, 33.
  • Orleans, Duchess of, her remarks on the Mississippi scheme, i. 5, 19, 24, 35, 36.
  • Ortholani, a French alchymist, i 136.
  • Overbury, Sir Thomas, portrait of, ii. 195;
    • poisoned by the Earl and Countess of Somerset and their accomplices, 193-201.
  • Palestine. (See the Crusades.)
  • Palmistry. (See Fortune-Telling.)
  • Paper currency, introduced in France by John Law, i. 4.
  • Paracelsus, memoir and portrait of, i. 142;
    • his singular doctrines, 145;
    • the first of the magnetisers, 262.
  • Paris, the Palais Royal (engraving), i. 12;
    • John Law’s house, Rue de Quincampoix (engraving), 13;
    • Hotel de Soissons (engraving), 16;
    • incidents of the Mississippi scheme (four engravings), i. 15, 18, 21, 31;
    • the Place de Grêve (engraving), ii. 192;
    • the Bastile (engraving), ii. 209;
    • house of Nicholas Flamel, in the rue de Marivaux, i. 118;
    • the Rosicrucians in, i. 170-173;
    • Mesmer’s house; his experiments, 278.
  • Parsons and his family, concoctors of the “Cock Lane Ghost” deception, ii. 228.
  • Paul’s Cross, Dr. Lamb, the poisoner, attacked and killed there (engraving), ii. 202.
  • Persecution of alleged witches. (See Witches.)
  • Peter the Great taxes beards (portrait), i. 267.
  • Peter the Hermit. (See the Crusades.)
  • Peter of Lombardy, an alchymist, i. 136.
  • Peter of Pontefract, his false prophecies described by Grafton, i. 234.
  • Petronella, the wife of Nicholas Flamel, i. 116.
  • Philalethes, Eugenius, a Rosicrucian, i. 175.
  • Philip I. excommunicated, ii. 8.
  • Philip Augustus joins the third crusade (engraving), ii. 64, 66;
    • his jealousy of Richard I., 69, 71;
    • returns to France, 72.
  • Philip IV., portrait of, ii. 112;
    • his persecution of the Templars, ii. 113.
  • Philosopher’s stone, searchers for the. (See Alchymists.)
  • Pietro D’Apone. (See D’Apone.)
  • Pigray on witchcraft in France, ii. 122.
  • Pilgrimages to Jerusalem before the Crusades, ii. 2.
  • Pilgrim’s staff (engraving), ii. 56.
  • Place de Grêve (engraving), ii. 192;
    • Madame de Brinvilliers; La Chaussée and others executed there for poisoning, 212, 213, 215.
  • Plague at Milan prophesied, i. 225.
  • Plays on the adventures of thieves, their evil influence, ii. 253, 257.
  • Poisoning, in Greece and Rome; its spread in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; declared high treason in England, ii. 192;
    • Sir Thomas Overbury poisoned; full history of his case, with portraits of Overbury, the Earl and Countess of Somerset, Lord Coke, and Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 193-201;
    • suspicious death of Prince Henry, son of James I., 200;
    • Buckingham said to have poisoned James I., 201;
    • fate of Dr. Lamb, the poisoner (engraving), 202;
    • slow poisoning in Italy, its general prevalence; employed by the Duke of Guise; much used by Roman ladies to poison husbands, 203;
    • trial and execution of La Spara and others; other women punished, 204;
    • atrocious crimes of La Tophania; the nature of her poison; protected in sanctuary by the clergy of Naples; seized by the viceroy, tried, and executed, 206-208.
    • In France: Exili, Glaser, and Sainte Croix, the first criminals, 208;
    • Madame de Brinvilliers and Sainte Croix; their crimes and punishment, 208-214;
    • M. de Penautier charged with poisoning; popular mania for the crime, 214;
    • Lavoisin and Lavigoreux executed, 215;
    • charges against the Marshal de Luxembourg and the Countess of Soissons; recent revival of the crime in England, 216.
  • Pope, his sketch of Sir John Blunt, Chairman of the South-Sea Company, i. 74.
  • Popular Follies of Great Cities, ii. 239-248.
    • Cant or slang phrases:
      • “Quoz,” 240;
      • “What a shocking bad hat,” 240;
      • “Hookey Walker,” 241;
      • “There he goes with his eye out,” 242;
      • “Has your mother sold her mangle?” 242;
      • “Flare up,” 242;
      • “Does your mother know you’re out?” 244;
      • “Who are you?” 244.
    • Songs:
      • “Cherry ripe,” 246;
      • “The Sea,” 247;
      • “Jim Crow,” 247.
  • Portraits.—John Law, i. 1;
    • the Regent Orleans, 5;
    • D’Aguesseau, 34;
    • D’Argenson, 42;
    • Earl of Sunderland, 80;
    • Harley Earl of Oxford, 46;
    • Sir Robert Walpole, 49;
    • Mr. Secretary Craggs, 64;
    • Conrad Gesner, the first tulip cultivator, 85;
    • Albertus Magnus, 100;
    • Arnold de Villeneuve, 103;
    • Raymond Lulli, 105;
    • Cornelius Agrippa, 138;
    • Panacelsus, 142;
    • Dr. Dee, 152;
    • Philip IV., ii. 112;
    • Charles IX., 119;
    • John Knox, 128;
    • James I., 134;
    • Sir George Mackenzie, 138;
    • Pietro d’Apone, 140;
    • Sir Matthew Hale, 148;
    • Sir Thomas Brown, 151;
    • Louis XIV., 177;
    • Henry Andrews, the original of “Francis Moore,” i. 244;
    • Nostradamus, 246;
    • Peter the Great, 267;
    • Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195;
    • Villiers duke of Buckingham, 198;
    • Lord Chief Justice Coke, 199;
    • Earl and Countess of Somerset, 200, 201;
    • Henry IV. of France, 277;
    • Lord Bacon, 286.
  • Political prejudices and enactments against long hair and beards, i. 296-303.
  • Poetry and romance, their obligations to the Rosicrucians, i. 179.
  • Powell, Chief Justice, his opposition to the belief in witchcraft, ii. 152.
  • Prophecies: Plague of Milan, i. 225;
  • Puysegur, the Marquis de, his discovery of clairvoyance; his magnetic elm, i. 283-286.
  • Raising the dead and absent, a power ascribed to Cornelius Agrippa, i. 142;
    • and Cagliostro, 217.
  • Raleigh, Sir Walter, an inveterate duellist, abandons the custom, ii. 297.
  • Raymond of Toulouse, a leader of the first crusade, ii. 21, 26, 29, 31, 34, 45, 46;
    • his supposed collusion with Peter Barthelemy, 35, 37, 41;
    • at the siege of Jerusalem, 46.
  • Raymond Lulli. (See Lulli.)
  • Reinaldo, a leader of the first crusade, ii. 18.
  • Relics, brought by the early pilgrims from Palestine, ii. 2;
    • swearing on, a test of innocence, 264;
    • fragments of the true cross; bones of saints; tears of the Saviour; tears and milk of the Virgin; Santa Scala at Rome; relics of Longbeard, Massaniello, La Brinvilliers, Dr. Dodd, Fauntleroy, Thurtell, Corder, Greenacre, Thom, Shakspere, Napoleon, Waterloo, 302-308.
  • Religious prejudices and ordinances against long hair and beards, i. 296-303.
  • Rhodes, Richard I. at (engraving), ii. 69.
  • Rice, Count, tried for killing Du Barri in a duel, ii. 293.
  • Richard I. sets out for Palestine, ii. 67;
    • attacks the Sicilians, 68;
    • arrives at Rhodes (engraving), 69;
    • his queen Berengaria (engraving), 70;
    • captures Acre, 71;
    • reaches Bethlehem (engraving), 73;
    • his concern on being obliged to retreat, 74;
    • his reputation in Palestine, 74.
  • Richelieu an alchymist, i. 198;
    • his opposition to duelling, ii. 279, 280.
  • Ripley, George, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 118.
  • Robert duke of Normandy, a leader of the Crusades, ii. 21, 31, 39, 46.
  • Robert count of Flanders, a leader of the first Crusade, ii. 21, 30, 31.
  • Robert of Paris (Count), his insolence to the Emperor Alexius, ii. 25;
    • killed at the battle of Dorylæum, 29.
  • Robin Hood, popular admiration of, ii. 250.
  • Robinson, Ann, the Stockwell “Ghost,” ii. 234.
  • Rochester, Viscount, afterwards Earl of Somerset. (See Somerset.)
  • Roger Bacon. (See Bacon.)
  • Romance and poetry, their obligations to the Rosicrucians, i. 179.
  • Rosenberg (Count), a patron of Dr. Dee, i. 159.
  • Rosicrucians, the, their romantic doctrines; history of their progress, i. 167;
    • their poetical doctrines, sylphs, naiades, gnomes, and salamanders, 172, 179.
  • Rouen, view in, ii. 171;
    • the Parliament remonstrate with Louis XIV. on his leniency to suspected witches, 172.
  • Rudolph (I. and II.), Emperors, their encouragement of alchymy, i. 158, 165.
  • Rupecissa, John de, a French alchymist, i. 136.
  • Russia, tax on beards imposed by Peter the Great, i. 301.
  • “Sabbaths,” or meetings of witches and demons, ii. 107, 133.
  • Sainte Croix, the slow poisoner in France, his crimes and death, ii. 208, 211.
  • Saints, relics of, ii. 304.
  • Saladin, his military successes, ii. 63;
    • his defence of Acre, 69, 71;
    • defeated at Azotus, 72;
    • and at Jaffa, 74.
  • “Saladin’s tithe,” a tax enforced by the Crusaders, ii. 65.
  • Salamanders. (See the Rosicrucians.)
  • Santa Scala, or Holy Stairs, at Rome, ii. 304.
  • Schinderhannes, the German robber, ii. 256.
  • Scotland, witchcraft in. (See Witchcraft.)
  • Scott, Sir Walter, his anachronisms on the Crusades, ii. 74, 98.
    • “Scratching Fanny,” or the Cock Lane Ghost; her remains in the vault of St. John’s Church, Clerkenwell, ii. 230.
  • Seal of Edward I. (engraving), ii. 97.
  • Seifeddoulet, the Sultan, his reception of Alfarabi, the alchymist, i. 98.
  • Semlin attacked by the Crusaders, ii. 15.
  • Sendivogius, a Polish alchymist, i. 164, 165.
  • Senés, Bishop of, his report on Jean Delisle’s success in alchymy, i. 193.
  • Serlo cuts off the hair of Henry I. (engraving), i. 296, 298.
  • Seton, the Cosmopolite, an alchymist; memoir of, i. 163.
  • Sevigné, Madame, her account of Madame de Brinvilliers, ii. 208, 213.
  • Shakespere’s Mulberry-tree, ii. 307.
  • Sharp, Giles, contriver of mysterious noises at Woodstock Palace, ii. 224.
  • Shem, the son of Noah, an alchymist, i. 95.
  • Sheppard, Jack, his popularity—lines on his portrait by Thornhill, ii. 252;
    • evil effect of a novel and melo-dramas representing his career, 253.
  • Sherwood Forest, and Robin Hood (engraving), ii. 249, 250.
  • Shipton, Mother, her prophecy of the fire of London, i. 230;
    • her popularity, 231;
    • view of her cottage, 241.
  • Simeon, the Patriarch, a promoter of the Crusades, ii. 7.
  • Slang phrases. (See Popular Follies.)
  • Slow Poisoners, the. (See Poisoning.)
  • Smollett, on history and the South-Sea Bubble, i. 67.
  • Soliman the Sultan, his conflict with the Crusaders, ii. 18.
  • Somerset, the Earl of (poisoner of Sir Thos. Overbury), portrait of, ii. 200;
    • his origin and rise at court; supposed vicious connexion with James I.; his intrigue and marriage with the Countess of Essex; the murder of Overbury; the earl’s trial and sentence, 193-201.
  • Somerset, the Countess of, her participation in the murder of Sir Thos. Overbury, with portrait, ii. 201.
  • Songs:
    • on the Mississippi scheme, i. 36;
    • on the South-Sea Bubble, 50;
    • on famous thieves, ii. 260;
    • on witchcraft, popular in Germany, 165;
    • popularity of “Cherry Ripe,” “The Sea,” “Jim Crow,” 246.
  • Songs, Beranger’s “Thirteen at Table,” i. 257.
  • Songs of the Rosicrucians, i. 168, 204.
  • Sorcery. (See Witchcraft and Alchemy.)
  • Sorel, Agnes, her patronage of Jacques Cœur, the alchymist, i. 132.
  • South-Sea Bubble, history of, i. 45-84;
    • the Company originated by Harley, Earl of Oxford; its primary object, 45;
    • visionary ideas of South-Sea trade; restrictions imposed by Spanish Government, 46;
    • proposals to Parliament to reduce the debt; capital increased to twelve millions; success of the Company, 47;
    • its application to take the whole state debt; counter application by the Bank of England; the former adopted by Parliament; stock rises from 130 to 300, 48;
    • Sir R. Walpole’s warning; directors’ exertions to raise the prices, 49;
    • bill passed; great demand for shares, 50;
    • other bubble schemes started and encouraged, 51, 52;
    • eighty-six of them dissolved, 55, 57;
    • shares at 400; fall to 290, but raised by the directors’ schemes, 51;
    • dividend declared; increased excitement, 52;
    • Swift’ lines on Change Alley; extent of the delusion; frauds of schemers, 54;
    • fears of the judicious; bubble companies proclaimed unlawful, 55;
    • continued excitement; stock at 1000, 62, 63;
    • Sir John Blunt, the chairman, sells out; stock falls; meeting of the company; Mr. Secretary Craggs supports directors, 63;
    • increased panic; negociation with Bank of England, 64, 65;
    • they agree to circulate the company’s bonds, 66;
    • total failure of the company; social and moral evils of the scheme, 67;
    • arrogance of the directors; petitions for vengeance on them; King’s speech to Parliament, 69;
    • debates thereon, 69, 71;
    • punishment resolved on, 70;
    • Walpole’s plan to restore credit; officers of the company forbidden to leave England, 71;
    • ministers proved to have been bribed by shares, 73, 77;
    • directors apprehended; treasurer absconds, 73;
    • measures to arrest him, 73, 74;
    • directors expelled from Parliament, 74;
    • chairman’s examination, 75;
    • treasurer imprisoned at Antwerp, but escapes, 76;
    • reports on the details of the fraud, 76;
    • Mr. Stanhope, Secretary to Treasury, charged but acquitted; dissatisfaction thereon, 78;
    • Mr. Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, committed to the Tower, and consequent rejoicings (engraving), 79;
    • Sir George Caswall punished; the Earl of Sunderland acquitted; death of Mr. Secretary Craggs, and his father, participators in the fraud, 80;
    • heavy fines on the directors; account of these proceedings by Gibbon the historian, 81;
    • measures adopted to restore credit, 83;
    • caricatures by Hogarth and others (seven engravings), 60, 61, 68, 70, 76, 82, 84.
  • South-Sea House, view of, i. 45.
  • Spara, Hieronyma, the slow poisoner of Rome, her trial and execution, ii. 205.
  • Speculations. (See Money Mania, the Mississippi Scheme, South-Sea Bubble, and Bubble Schemes.)
  • Spenser, his description of Merlin and his cave, i. 232, 237.
  • Spirits. (See Demons, Witchcraft, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, &c.)
  • Sprenger, a German witch-finder; his persecutions, ii. 118-159.
  • St. Bernard preaches the second Crusade, ii. 53, 55;
    • his miracles, 56;
    • failure of his prophecies, 62.
  • St. Dunstan and the devil, ii. 103.
  • St. Evremond, his account of the impositions of Valentine Greatraks, i. 270.
  • St. Germain (Count de), the alchymist, memoir of, i. 200;
    • his profusion of jewels, 203;
    • his pretensions to long life, 205.
  • St. John’s Eve, St. Mark’s Eve, St. Swithin’s Eve, superstitious customs, i. 258.
  • Stanhope, Earl, supports the proposition to punish the directors of the South-Sea Company, i. 72, 73;
    • is stigmatised in Parliament, and dies suddenly, 75.
  • Stanhope, Charles, secretary to Treasury;
    • his participation in the South-Sea fraud, i. 77, 78;
    • his acquittal by parliament, and consequent disturbances, 78.
  • Stedinger, the, a section of the Frieslanders; their independence; accused of witchcraft by the Pope, and exterminated by the German nobles, ii. 110, 111.
  • Stephen, king of Poland, his credulity and superstition, i. 159.
  • Stock jobbing. (See South-Sea Bubble.)
    • “Stock Jobbing Cards,” or caricatures of the South-Sea Bubble (two engravings), i. 60, 61.
  • Stonehenge ascribed to Merlin, i. 237.
  • Suger dissuades Louis VII. from the Crusade, ii. 55-62.
  • Sully, his wise opposition to duelling, ii. 279
  • Sunderland, Earl of, portrait of, i. 80;
    • his participation in the South-Sea Bubble, i. 50, 77, 78;
    • discontent at his acquittal, 80.
  • Superstitions on the 1st of January, Valentine Day, Lady Day, St. Swithin’s Eve, St. Mark’s Eve, Candlemas Eve, Midsummer, St. John’s Eve, 29th February, 258.
  • Surrey and the fair Geraldine; the vision shewn by Cornelius Agrippa, i. 142.
  • Sweden, executions for witchcraft, ii. 177.
  • Sylphs. (See the Rosicrucians.)
  • Syria. (See the Crusades.)
  • Tancred, his achievements in the first Crusade, ii. 26, 35, 38, 39, 45.
  • Tax on beards imposed by Peter the Great, i. 301.
  • Tedworth, Wiltshire, the “haunted house” there; narrative of the deception, ii. 224.
  • Tempests caused by witches, ii. 102, 106, 133, 134.
  • Templars, Knights, subdued by Saladin, ii. 63;
    • support Frederick II. in the seventh Crusade, 86;
    • their subsequent reverses, 87, 90, 99;
    • accused of witchcraft, 112;
    • persecuted by Philip IV.; the grand master burnt, 113.
  • Têtenoire, a famous French thief, ii. 255.
  • Theatrical productions, on the lives of robbers; their pernicious influence, ii. 253-257.
  • Thieves, Popular admiration of Great, ii. 249-260;
    • Robin Hood, ii. 250;
    • Dick Turpin, 251;
    • Jack Sheppard, 252;
    • Jonathan Wild, 254;
    • Claude Duval, 255;
    • Aimerigot Têtenoire, 255;
    • Cartouche; Vidocq, 256;
    • Italian banditti, 256, 257;
    • Schinderhannes and Nadel, 257;
    • evil influence of the “Beggars’ Opera” and other plays on the subject of thieves 253, 257, 258;
    • Lord Byron’s “Corsair” and Schiller’s “Robber,” 259.
  • Thomas Aquinas. (See Aquinas.)
  • Tiberias, battle of, ii. 63.
  • Tibertus, Antiochus, his wonderful prophecies, i. 248.
  • Toads dancing at the witches’ “Sabbaths,” ii. 108.
  • Tophania, La, a famous poisoner in Italy, her crimes and execution; the nature of her potions, ii. 206.
  • Torture, its cruelty exposed by the Duke of Brunswick, ii. 170.
  • Toulouse, witches burnt at, ii. 160.
  • Tournaments and judicial combats. (See Duels.)
  • Tours, haunted house at, ii. 221.
  • Tower Hill, bonfires on the committal of participators in the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 79.
  • Tower of London, Raymond Lulli the alchymist said to have practised there, i. 109;
    • poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195.
  • Transmutation of metals. (See Alchymists.)
  • Trees, their significance in dreams, i. 254;
    • susceptible of magnetic influence, 284.
  • Trial by Battle. (See Duels and Ordeals.)
  • Trithemius, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 124.
  • Trois-Echelles executed for witchcraft, ii. 120.
  • Troussel, William, his duel with the Constable Du Guesclin (engraving), ii. 261, 271.
  • “Truce of God,” the, proclaimed by the first Crusaders, ii. 14.
  • “True Cross,” fragments of the, ii. 3, 71.
  • Tulip Mania;
    • the flower first introduced into Europe by Gesner, portrait of Gesner, i. 85;
    • great demand for plants in Holland and Germany, introduced in England from Vienna, the flower described and eulogised by Beckmann and Cowley, 86;
    • rage for bulbs in Holland and their enormous prices, 87;
    • amusing errors of the uninitiated, 88;
    • marts for the sale of bulbs, jobbing and gambling, ruinous extent of the mania and immense profits of speculators, 89;
    • “tulip-notaries” appointed, sudden loss of confidence and fall of prices, meetings, deputation to the government, 90;
    • unfulfilled bargains repudiated by the law courts, 91;
    • the mania in England and France, 91;
    • subsisting value of choice bulbs, 92.
  • Tunis invaded by the Crusaders, ii. 96.
  • Tunbridge Wells, a witch doctor there in 1830, ii. 189.
  • Turner, Mrs. her participation in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 194, 198, 199.
  • Turpin, Dick, popular admiration of, ii. 251.
  • Undines. (See the Rosicrucians.)
  • Urban II. preaches the Crusade (frontispiece), ii. 7.
  • Valentine, Basil, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 119.
  • Valentine’s Day superstitions, i. 258.
  • Vauvert, the ruined palace at, haunted, ii. 220.
  • Vezelais, cathedral of (engraving), ii. 54.
  • Villars, Marshal, his opposition to the Mississippi scheme, i. 16.
  • Vulgar phrases. (See Popular Follies.)
  • Visions, pretended. (See Barthelemy, Agrippa, and Dr. Dee.)
  • Waldenses, the, persecuted and burnt at Arras, ii. 115.
  • Walpole, Sir Robert, his warning of the evils of the South-Sea bubble, portrait of him, i. 49-55;
    • his measures to restore credit, 70, 71.
  • Walter the Penniless, a leader of the first Crusade, ii. 15, 18.
  • Warbois, the witches of, absurd charges against them, their execution, ii. 125.
  • “Water of Life,” searchers for. (See Alchymists.)
  • Water ordeal. (See Duels and Ordeals.)
  • “Weapon-salve,” controversy respecting, i. 265.
  • “Wehr-wolves” executed, ii. 120, 168.
  • Westminster Abbey, Raymond Lulli, the alchymist, said to have practised there, i. 109;
    • tomb of Queen Eleanor (engraving), ii. 99.
  • Weston, Richard, an accomplice in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 194, 198, 199.
  • Wharton, Duke of, his speeches on the South-Sea Bubble, i. 50, 75.
  • Whiston, his prophecy of the end of the world, i. 223.
  • William of Tyre preaches the Crusade, ii. 63, 65.
  • Wilson, ——, killed in a duel by John Law, i. 3.
  • Wirdig, Sebastian, the magnetiser, i. 273.
  • Witchcraft:—Account of the witch mania, ii. 101-191;
    • popular belief in witches, ii. 102;
    • their supposed compacts with the devil; popular notions of the devil and demons, 103;
    • witches could secure their services, 107;
    • their meetings or “Sabbaths,” 107, 133, 166, 169, 171;
    • frequent persecution on the pretext of witchcraft, 110;
    • the Stedinger, a section of the Frieslanders, exterminated on that charge, 110;
    • the Templars accused of witchcraft; the Grand Master and others burnt; execution of Joan of Arc (engraving), 113;
    • combined with heresy as a charge against religious reformers, 114;
    • the Waldenses persecuted at Arras; their confessions under torture; belief common to Catholics and Reformers; Florimond on the prevalence of witchcraft, 115;
    • witches executed at Constance; Bull of Pope Innocent VIII.; general crusade against witches, 117;
    • Sprenger’s activity in Germany; Papal commissions, 118;
    • executions in France; sanctioned by Charles IX., 119, 122;
    • Trois Echelles, his confessions and execution, 120;
    • “men-wolves,” executed, 121;
    • English statutes against witchcraft, 123;
    • Bishop Jewell’s exclamations, 124;
    • the witches of Warbois; absurd charges and execution of the victims, 125;
    • annual sermon at Cambridge, ii. 127;
    • popular belief and statutes in Scotland, 127, 154;
    • charges against the higher classes; against John Knox, 128;
    • numerous executions; trial of Gellie Duncan and others, 129;
    • James I., his interest in the subject; Dr. Fian tortured (engraving), 131;
    • confessions of the accused, 132;
    • their execution; further persecution, 135;
    • case of Isabel Gowdie, 136;
    • opinions of Sir George Mackenzie (portrait), 136, 155;
    • death preferred to the imputation of witchcraft, 137, 139;
    • King James’s “Demonology,” 139;
    • the “Lancashire witches” executed, 141;
    • Matthew Hopkins, the “witch-finder general” (engraving), 143;
    • his impositions, cruelty, and retributive fate, 148;
    • “common prickers” in Scotland, 146;
    • Mr. Louis, a clergyman, executed, 147;
    • Glanville’s Sadducismus Triumphatus, 148;
    • witches tried before Sir Matthew Hale (portrait); Sir Thomas Brown’s evidence (portrait); conviction and execution, 148-152;
    • trials before Chief Justices Holt and Powell, 152, 153;
    • the last execution in England, in 1716, 153;
    • Scotch laws on the subject, 154;
    • various trials in Scotland 155-158;
    • last execution in Scotland, in 1722, 158;
    • proceedings of Sprenger in Germany, Bodinus and Delrio in France, 159;
    • executions at Constance, Toulouse, Amsterdam, and Bamberg, 160-162;
    • numerous executions at Wurtzburg, including many children, 163;
    • others at Lendheim, 164;
    • the “Witches’ Gazette,” a German ballad, 165;
    • the Maréchale D’Anere executed, 166;
    • 200 executions at Labourt, 166;
    • “weir-wolves,” belief in, 168;
    • Urbain Grandier, curate of Loudun, executed, 169;
    • singular cases at Lisle, 169;
    • the Duke of Brunswick’s exposure of the cruelty of torture, 170;
    • diminution of charges in Germany, 171;
    • singular remonstrance from the French Parliament to Louis XIV. on his leniency to witches, 171;
    • executions at Mohra, in Sweden, 177;
    • atrocities in New England; a child and a dog executed, 180;
    • the last execution in Switzerland in 1652, 182;
    • the latest on record, in 1749, at Wurtzburg, 184;
    • witches ducked in 1760, 185;
    • Lady Hatton’s reputation for witchcraft; her house in Cross Street, Hatton Garden, (engraving), 186;
    • the horse-shoe a protection against witches, 187;
    • belief in witchcraft recently and still existing, 187;
    • witch-doctors still practising, 189;
    • prevalence of the superstition in France, 189;
    • “floating a witch” (engraving), 191.
  • Women accompanying the Crusades in arms, ii. 12, 57, 67.
  • Woodstock Palace a “haunted house;” account of the noises, and their cause, ii. 222;
    • view of, 217.
  • Wulstan, Bishop, his antipathy to long hair, i. 297.
  • Wurtzburg, numerous executions for witchcraft, ii. 162, 184;
    • view in, 183.
  • York, Duke of, his duel with Col. Lennox, ii. 293.
  • Zara besieged by the Crusaders, ii. 76.
  • Zachaire, Denis, the Alchymist, his interesting memoir of himself, i. 146.