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. 293.
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 Coeur 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; inundation prophesied in 1524, i. 228; the Great Fire, 230. (_See_ also Cagliostro, Change Alley, Cornhill, Merchant Taylors' Hall, Tower, Westminster.)
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. (_See_ Comets, Falling Stars, and Meteors.)
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; plague of London, 1665, inundation of London, 1528, 228; great fire, 1666; earthquake, 1842, 230; Mother Shipton, with _view_ of her cottage, 232, 241; Merlin, 232-238; Peter of Pontefract, 234; Robert Nixon the Cheshire prophet, 238; almanac-makers, 240 (_see_ Fortune-Telling); end of the world, 222, 224; earthquakes, 224. (_See_ Modern Prophecies, the Crusades, Peter Barthelemy, &c.)
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. (_See_ Witchcraft.)
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 Coeur, 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.