Chapter XXXII: Part 32

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.

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.
(_See_ Witchcraft.)

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.
(_See_ Relics.)

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.

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