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.
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ordeals superseded by judicial combats, 267;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.
E
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;
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;
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.
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;
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. (SeeSomerset.)
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Y
York, Duke of, his duel with Col. Lennox, ii. 293.
Z
Zara besieged by the Crusaders, ii. 76.
Zachaire, Denis, the Alchymist, his interesting memoir of himself,
i. 146.