CONTENTS.

[THE CRUSADES.]
Different accounts of the Crusaders derived from History and Romance—Pilgrimages to the Holy Land first undertaken by converted Jews and the very credulous—Increasing number of pilgrims every year—Relics greatly valued—Haroun al Reschid—The pilgrims taxed—Robert of Normandy—The pilgrims persecuted by the Turks—Peter the Hermit—His first idea of rousing the powers of Christendom—His interview with Simeon—Peter the Hermit preaches the Holy War to all the nations of Christendom—The Pope crosses the Alps—King Philip accused of adultery with Bertrade de Montfort—The Council of Clermont—Oration of Urban II.—The “Truce of God”—Gautier sans Avoir, or Walter the Pennyless—Gottschalk—The arrival at Semlin—Peter the Hermit at Nissa—At Constantinople—The Crusaders conducted in safety to Constantinople—Fresh hordes from Germany—Godfrey of Bouillon—Count of Vermandois—Tancred—The siege of Antioch—The Holy Lance—Fate of Peter Barthelemy—Siege of Jerusalem—St. Bernard—Second Crusade: Siege of Damascus—Third Crusade: Death of Henry II.—Richard Cœur de Lion—Fourth Crusade—Fifth Crusade: Constantinople assaulted—Sixth Crusade: Camhel and Cohreddin—Seventh Crusade: Departure of Louis IX. for Cyprus—For Acre—His death at Carthage—End of the Crusades
[THE WITCH MANIA.]
Popular notions of the devil—Inferior demons—Demons of both sexes—Demons preferring the night between Friday and Saturday—The devil in the shape of a goat—Sorcery—Execution of Joan of Arc—Witches burned in Europe—Various charges of Witchcraft—Trois Echelles—The Witches of Warbois—John Knox—Torture of Dr. Fian—The Lancashire Witches—Matthew Hopkins—Burnings at Würzburg, at Lindheim, at Labourt—Request of the parliament of Rouen to the King, in 1670—Würzburg the scene of the last case of Witchcraft—The Witchcraft of Lady Hatton—Witchcraft at Hastings and many other parts of England
[THE SLOW POISONERS.]
Murder of Sir Thomas Overbury—Trial of Weston—Of Sir Jervis Elwes—Poisoning most prevalent in Italy—Poisons manufactured by La Tophania—Her death—Madame de Brinvilliers—The poisoning of her father and two brothers—Lavoisin and Lavigoreux
[HAUNTED HOUSES.]
The haunted house in Aix-la-Chapelle—In Tours—The royal palace of Woodstock a haunted house—The supposed ghosts at Tedworth—At Cock Lane—At Stockwell—Haunted house at Baldarroch
[POPULAR FOLLIES OF GREAT CITIES.]
Cant phrases—“Quoz”—“What a shocking bad hat”—“Hookey Walker”—“There he goes with his eye out”—“Has your mother sold her mangle?”—“Does your mother know you’re out?”—“Tom and Jerry”—“Jim Crow”
[POPULAR ADMIRATION OF GREAT THIEVES.]
Robin Hood—Claude Duval—Dick Turpin—Jonathan Wild—Jack Sheppard—Vidocq—Mausch Nadel—The Beggar’s Opera—Rob Roy
[DUELS AND ORDEALS.]
The origin of the Duello—All persons engaged in duelling excommunicated by the Council of Trent—The fire ordeal—The water ordeal—The Corsned—Duel between Ingelgerius and Gontran—Duel between François de Vivonne and Guy de Chabot—L’Isle-Marivaut and Marolles—Richelieu—Duel between the Dukes De Beaufort and De Nemours—Laws against Duelling—Duel between Lord Sanquir and Turner—Between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun—German students inveterate Duellists
[RELICS.]
The True Cross—Tears of our Saviour—The Santa Scala, or Holy Stairs—The mad Knight of Malta—Shakspeare’s Mulberry-tree

LIST OF ENGRAVINGS IN VOL. II.

[Pope Urban preaching the first Crusade.—Frontispiece.]
[View in the Harz Mountains.] (Capt. Batty’s Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery.)—Title-page.
[Initial—Crusaders’ Weapons of the eleventh century]
[Peter the Hermit preaching]
[Cathedral at Clermont.] (Sommerard’s Album)
[Nicée, Asia Minor.] (Leon de Laborde’s Voyage en Orient)
[Godfrey of Bouillon.] (From the Statue by Simonis, Brussels)
[Siege of Antioch]
[The Holy Lance.] (Copied, in Hone’s Everyday Book, from a very rare print published by the Ecclesiastics of Nuremberg)
[Shrine of the Nativity, Bethlehem.] (Laborde’s Voyage en Orient)
[Pilgrims’ first sight of Jerusalem.] (Print by Plüddemann)
[Siege of Jerusalem]
[Jerusalem.] (Gerhardt von Breydenbach’s Grand Voyage de Jherusalem, 1517)
[Bible of Baldwin’s Queen.] (Original in the British Museum)
[Cathedral of Vezelai.] (Sommerard’s Album)
[Pilgrim’s Staff.] (The Archæologia)
[Damascus.] (Laborde’s Voyage en Orient)
[Seal of Frederick Barbarossa.] (Venetian History)
[Henry II.] (Stothard’s Monumental Effigies)
[Château of Gisors, Normandy.] (L’Univers Pittoresque)
[Philip Augustus.] (Willemin’s Monumens Français inédits)
[The Island of Rhodes.] (Royal Library, British Museum; print “in Venetia, 1570”)
[Richard I. and Berengaria.] (Stothard’s Monumental Effigies)
[Bethlehem.] (Laborde’s Voyage en Orient)
[Constantinople.] (Print, Johann Baptist Hooman, Royal Library, British Museum)
[Templar and Hospitaller.] (Fairholt’s Book of Costumes)
[Jaffa.] (Laborde’s Voyage en Orient)
[Longespee or Longsword, Earl of Salisbury.] (Effigy in Salisbury Cathedral)
[Seal of Edward I.] (From Great Seal)
[Tomb of Queen Eleanor, Westminster Abbey.] (Original sketch)
[Arras.] (Coney’s Cathedrals and Hotels de Ville)
[Philip IV. of France]
[Joan of Arc]
[Gate of Constance.] (Print, from drawing by Major Cockburn)
[Charles IX. of France.] (French print by Adolph Brune)
[Bishop Jewell]
[John Knox]
[Torture of the Boots.] (Knight’s Pictorial Shakspere)
[James I. the Demonologist]
[Sir G. Mackenzie]
[Pietro d’Apone]
[Mathew Hopkins.] (Print in Caulfield’s Remarkable Persons, copied from a rare print in the collection of J. Bindley, Esq.)
[Sir Mathew Hale]
[Sir Thomas Brown]
[Lyons.] (Prout’s Views in France)
[Bamberg.] (Prout’s Views in Germany)
[Palais de Justice, Rouen.] (Sommerard’s Arts du Moyen Age)
[Louis XIV.]
[Würzburg.] (Prout’s Views in Germany)
[Lady Hatton’s House, Cross Street, Hatton Garden.] (Original sketch)
[Floating a Witch]
[Place de Grève, Paris.] (Old print)
[Sir T. Overbury.] (An extremely rare print by R. Elstracke)
[George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham]
[Lord Chief-Justice Coke]
[The Earl of Somerset]
[Countess of Somerset]
[Death of Dr. Lamb, St. Paul’s Cross.] (The Cross copied from print in Wilkinson’s Londina Illustrata)
[The Bastille.] (Views of Public Edifices in Paris, by MM. Legard et Testard)
[Palace of Woodstock in 1714.] (From a print of date)
[Saint Louis of France.] (Willemin’s Monumens Français inédits)
[Haunted House in Cock Lane.] (Original sketch)
[Room in the haunted house in Cock Lane.] (Original sketch)
[Sherwood Forest]
[Duel between Du Guesclin and Troussel]
[Duel between Ingelgerius and Gontran]
[Henry IV.]
[Gallery in the Palace of Fontainebleau.] (Sommerard’s Arts du Moyen Age)
[The Duke de Sully]
[Lord Bacon]

MEMOIRS
OF
EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS.