INDEX.
Abbots, possess an unlimited power of imposing disciplines on their Monks, [135], [139].
Trick played by a certain Abbot to his Monks, [143], & seq.
Are not respected by their Monks in proportion to their great power over them, [154], & seq.
An explanation of the common saying, they wait for him as Monks do for their Abbot, ibid.
See [Priors].
Abelard, the great pains he takes for the instruction of Heloisa, [235], [236].
His letters to her, quoted, [236], [243].
Adamites, mentioned by St. Austin, what sect they were, [392].
Adams (Parson), proposed as a pattern of gallantry and proper behaviour, [294].
Receives a lecture from a Lady, which he deserves, [405].
Adhelm, an English Saint, the kind of mortification he recommends to young women, [246].
Adriasem, alias Adriansen (Cornelius), what kind of penance he imposes upon his female penitents, [231].
A farther account of him, [234].
Is the inventor, or at least the promoter, of the Cornelian discipline, [235].
Adrian I. (Pope) occupied the Holy Chair in the year 772, and forbids Confessors to beat their penitents, [229].
Ægyptians, an account of their religious ceremonies and flagellations, [85].
Ajax Mastigophoros, a Tragedy of Sophocles, a remarkable passage in it, quoted, [54].
Alcoran of the Cordeliers, what Book, [394].
Amorous History of Gauls, quoted, [342].
Anabaptists, a pious expedition and procession of theirs, [393].
Anchorites of the East, accounts of their self-mortifications, [112], & seq.
Anthony (St.) is the Institutor of Monastical Life, [127].
Frequent visits he receives from the Devil, and the different treatments he experiences from him, [125], [127].
Apuleius, quoted, [86].
Aulus Gellius, quoted, [149].
Austin (St.) his remarkable advice to the Tribune Marcellinus, concerning Heretics, [133].
Augustus, is said to have subjected the Romans to his whip, [60].
B.
Bastinadoes, are but incomplete acts of penance, [224], [395].
Bath (Knights of the) at the time of their installation are to receive admonitions from the Master Cook of the Sovereign, [186].
Bernardinus de Bustis, a sermon of his quoted, [310].
Bernardinus of Sienna, in what manner he receives the advances of a Lady, [263].
Is not a fit model for ordinary persons to imitate, [294], [297].
Bishops, are invested, in the earliest times, with a power of flagellation over their flock, [132], & seq.
Boileau (the Abbé) specimens of his Latin, [232], [263];
personally introduced, [400];
reprimanded, [405].
Bolingbroke (Lord) writes Ministerial dispatches on the posteriors of his Mistress, [285].
Bonner, Bishop of London, his method of informing Hereticks, [258].
Boston Magistrates and Select-men served with a flagellation, [273], & seq.
Bottom, a, a boxing technical expression; its meaning, [386].
Brantôme, quoted, [173], [176], [178], [239], [407].
Bridget, a holy Nun, sets both St. Chrysostom and St. Austin right, by means of a vision she has, [107].
Buchanan, his flagellatory jokes, [160].
Buckhorse, his prowess, [385].
Buffoon (a Court) in Spain, his witticism at the expence of the Queen, and flagellatory reward for the same, [178].
Buxtorf, his Judaic Synagogue quoted, [35], [36].
C.
Caligula (the Emperor) his expedients for silencing those who made a noise near him in the Theatre, [266].
Calot, the celebrated Engraver, mentioned, [127].
Canillac (the Marquis of) falls in love with Margaret, Queen of Navarre, on sight of her fine arm, [269].
Canon (an English) Dean of the Church of Rheims, bestows a sound admonition and discipline on the Bishop of Châlons, [151], [152].
Thanks given him by the latter, ibid.
Captives, the treatment they experienced from their Conquerors, in antient times, [53], [54], [265].
Capuchin Friars, declare for the use of the lower discipline, [21], [404].
Charitable offer of one to a young woman, [188].
His success in that affair, ibid.
Cechald (the widow) resolutely performs the hundred years penance, [221].
Celebrated Causes (the Collection of) quoted, [281].
Cerebrosus (the Monk) opposes the practice of self-flagellation, and writes against Cardinal Damian on that subject, [212].
Cervantes, quoted, [295]. Has thrown a great light on the subject of flagellations, [325].
Chantpré (the Monk) runs the gantelope through the whole tribe of Devils, for his having refused to practice self-flagellation while he was alive, [302].
China, bastinadoes submitted to for money, [386].
Christians, did not, at the time of the first establishment of Christianity, adopt the use of voluntary flagellations, [39], & seq.
Nor do they seem to have practised them in the times which immediately followed that period, [102], & seq.
Have confessedly imitated several practices from the antient Pagans, [100], [101].
The time at which the use of voluntary disciplines, evidently appears to have become universally received among them, [192], & seq. [201], & seq.
Voluntary flagellations have never been so commonly practised among the Eastern, as among the Western Christians, [123].
Difference in the notions of these two Sects, with respect to such practices, [362], & seq.
A crimination of the Greek or Eastern Christians, against the Latin or Western Christians, [250].
Church, how strictly adheres to its forms and ritual, [254].
Churchill (Miss Arabella) dazzles his Royal Highness the Duke of York; by what means, [286].
Claudius (the Emperor) jokes of his buffoons with him, [97].
Clergy, it is a sacrilege to beat one of the Clergy, [228].
Exception to that rule, ibid.
Surprising licence that prevailed among them at a certain period, [316].
Climax (St. John) examination of a passage in his Book, [121], [122].
The truer meaning of this passage, [365].
Clopinel (the Poet) his case hinted at, [268].
Farther account of him, [332], & seq.
His witticism at the expence of the Fair Sex, [333];
the sentence passed upon him on that occasion by the Court Ladies, and his lucky escape, ibid.
Cobbing-board, an instrument on board ships, [292].
Cobler, a remarkable adventure of an Arabian Cobler, [290].
Column (the), to which Jesus Christ was fastened, the inscription put afterwards upon it, [103].
True meaning of that inscription, [105].
Commodus (the Emperor), a law of his to prevent the cheats of the Priests of Bellona, in Syria, [87], [88].
Confessors. Their great influence over their penitents, and the reason of it, [21], [22].
Assume a power of beating their penitents, [227].
Are forbidden by Pope Adrian I. to do so, [229].
Ingenious penances imposed by some of them, [230], & seq.
Dangers of their profession, [243], & seq.
Advice given them by St. Charles Borromee, [245].
Their situation with respect to decorum, ibid.
The expedients contrived by some among them, [246], [247].
Conformities (the Book of the) a farrago of superstitious trash; an account of the book, [394].
Cornelia Juliana, a Holy Nun, gives the Devil his due, [305].
Cornelian discipline defined, [235].
See [Discipline].
Cotelier, a Doctor of the Sorbonne, his Monuments of the Greek Church quoted, [250].
Coxcomb, a Russian; how chastised by a set of Ladies, [334], & seq.
Crofton (Zachary), a Reverend Divine, and a propagator of Cornelian flagellations in this Country, [237].
Farther account of him, [238].
Cuistre, a flagellator in a public School; the original meaning of the word, [189].
Curate (a French), animadverts upon the Abbé Boileau for his depreciating the lower discipline, [120].
Cynic Philosophers, great partisans of nakedness, [391].
D.
Dacier (Mons.) a very learned man in all that relates to antiquity, quoted, [96].
Dagobert, heir to the Crown of France in the year 526, orders a correction to be inflicted upon his preceptor, [74], [75].
Damian (the Cardinal) the great Patron of Flagellations, [192], [201], & seq.
Declares freedom from accoutrements the best state, for performing such pious exercises, [223].
A convincing argument of his on the subject, quoted, [389].
D’Aunoy (Madame), a French Lady of quality, her Journey into Spain quoted, [375], [377], [385].
D’Arbrissel (Robert), lies with young women by way of mortification, [246].
Dauteroche (Abbé Chappe), his Journey to Siberia quoted, [409], [410].
Denmark, flagellations are not unknown in that Country, and are even sometimes performed at Court, [291].
Devil (the), makes it a common practice to flagellate Saints, [125], & seq.
A holy Nun at last proves an overmatch for him, [305].
Disciplinants. See [Flagellants].
Disciplines, the different meanings of that word, [19].
The great variety of instruments used for inflicting them, [226].
The Cornelian discipline, what it is, [235].
The upper and lower disciplines defined, [21].
The lower discipline is practised by a number of Saints of both Sexes, [120].
The dangers of these two kinds of disciplines, [400], & seq.
See [Lower Discipline].
Voluntary disciplines, see [Voluntary Flagellations].
Dominic the Cuirassed, a Hero in the career of self-flagellation, [203], & seq.
Du Cange, his Glossary, quoted, [142], [180], [200].
E.
Edesse, the familiar manner in which its inhabitants treated the statue of the Emperor Constantine, [288].
Edmund (St.) Archbishop of Canterbury, a great instance of his virtue, while he pursues his studies in Paris, [262].
Elizabeth (Queen), no lover of formality in giving tokens of her displeasure, [190].
Seems to have used peculiar methods for rendering her Ministers what they ought to be, [343], [344].
Empress, the, wife to Justinian II. is threatened with a flagellation by the great Eunuch, [173].
Engineer, an, of the Town of Elæa, an officious mistake of his, and atonement for the same, [149], [150].
Essex (the Earl of) his letter to Queen Elizabeth, quoted, [343].
F.
Fakirs, their astonishing penances, which are well-ascertained facts, render every account of that kind credible, [115], [206].
Dialogue between one and a Turk, quoted from M. de Voltaire, [207].
Fathers, antient Greek and Latin, are their expressions about self-scourgings and beatings to be taken in a literal sense? [122], [123].
Fielding, quoted, [294], [376].
Flagellants, the formation of their processions, [345], & seq.
The success they met with in different Countries, [350].
Description of one of their itinerant processions in Germany, [351], & seq.
Their establishment and first success in France, [355], [372], & seq.
are there discountenanced at last, [373].
Their fraternities must be distinguished from the sect of Hereticks, called Flagellants, [368].
Account of these Hereticks, [369].
Account of these fraternities, [370], & seq.
Are, as it were, naturalised in Italy and Spain, [374].
Manner in which they perform these processions in Spain, [374], & seq.
In Italy, [382], & seq.
Real cruelty of these Flagellants upon themselves, [384], [385].
Flagellating fanaticism, a kind of, seems to have taken place in England about the time of the Rebellion, [340].
Proofs of it, ibid.
Flagellations, are either of a voluntary, or a corrective, or a recommendatory kind. Voluntary flagellations were in use among most Nations of Antiquity, [79], & seq.
Were unknown, it seems, to the first Christians, [102].
Were not prescribed to religious persons by the first Founders of Monastic Orders, [118].
Conjectures about the times in which they grew into use among Christians, [192], & seq.
The time at which they certainly became universally used among them, [201], & seq.
Cruelty with which they are performed, [203], & seq. [384], & seq.
Incredible and superstitious stories contrived to recommend them, [299], & seq.
Flagellations (corrective) their use is known from the earliest times, [51].
Are used as a means of procuring victory in war, [52];
by Masters over their Slaves; great power of Masters in Rome in that respect, [57], & seq.
Both in antient and modern times by Schoolmasters, [71], & seq.
by Judges, [55];
by Ladies to correct misbehaviour, [319], & seq.
Are useful to defeat captious arguments, [177].
To reward satires or bon-mots, [177], [178], [268], & seq.
To check those who betray the secrets of others, [268], & seq.
To repress competitors, [277].
To confute heresy, [258].
Are, in modern times, used in Seraglios, [172];
in the palaces of the western Sovereigns, [173], & seq.
in Monasteries and the rites with which they are performed there, [131], & seq. [180].
Flagellations (jocular) performed as a pastime, [96], [97], [39], [240], [241].
Flagellations (recommendatory) [162], & seq.
Flagellations (in general) are undergone by Sovereigns and Great Men, [265].
Are served by Emperors with their own hands, ibid.
Are useful to make one’s fortune, [267].
To acquire reputation, ibid.
Are very proper to enliven and embellish public festivals, [395].
Are capable of being performed with much gracefulness, [375], [376].
The most comfortable manner to receive them, [253].
Their glory completed, [258].
Francis (St.) his stigmats, a contrivance of his, [109].
Is flagellated by the Devil the very first night after his arrival at Rome, [126].
Friars, miracle effected by one, [128], & seq.
Contrivance of certain Friars in Catalonia, [247].
See [Monks].
Fulk Grisegonelle, an account of the penance he performs, [391].
G.
Gay quoted, [77].
Gelasius (Pope), puts an end to the festival of the Lupercalia, [94].
Improvements that had been made in it in his time, ibid.
Gerald (Sylvester) his Itinerarium Cambriæ, quoted, [317].
Gil Blas, quoted, [78].
Girard (Father), inflicts Cornelian disciplines on Miss Cadiere, [237].
Gerund de Campazas, a Spanish Novel, quoted, [293], [379].
Goddesses, weapons with which the Antients supplied them, [60], [319].
Gretzer (Father), a strenuous promoter of flagellations, [44], [45].
His consultation of a Physician recited, [402], [403].
Gymnosophists, or naked Sages, [391].
H.
Heloisa. The friendship of Abelard to her, [236], [243].
Henry II. of England, receives a correction from the Church, [251], [252].
Henry III. of France, inlists as a Brother in a fraternity of Disciplinants, [356], & seq. [372].
Henry IV. of France, receives likewise a correction from the Church, [253].
The great indulgence with which he is treated on that occasion, [254], [255].
Hermits, what kind of men they are, [115].
No better than common Friars; story of one, ibid.
Hérodote (Apologie pour), an account of the Book, [128].
Again quoted, [247], [315].
Herodotus, quoted, [85].
Hooëden (the Rector of), accident that happened to his Concubine, [317].
Hope (Cape of Good), in what manner fires are prevented there, [292].
Horace, quoted, [24], [55], [56], [65], [71], [283].
Hudibras, quoted, [327], [339], [376].
Hume (Mr.) quoted, [259].
Husbands corrected by their Wives, [339].
The subject is extensive and deep, and requires a Treatise apart, [340].
I.
James I. flagellated by his Preceptor, [160].
James II. dazzled by Miss Arabella Churchill’s posteriors, [286].
Jerom (St.) his observations on the epitaph of the widow Marcella, quoted, [94].
His exhortation to Sabinus, [109].
Does not seem to have practised any beatings upon himself, otherwise than with his fists, [110].
Fired with an ardent desire of acquiring the style of Cicero, [111].
Fustigated for that reason by the Angels before the Tribunal of God, ibid.
Jesuit, a Reverend Father Jesuit acts as an agent from Philip II. of Spain, to persuade a Princess of the Austrian House to marry him, [176].
The eloquence of the Father, ibid.
He only draws in the issue a flagellation upon himself, [177].
Is served with it in the kitchen, [177], [187].
Jesuits, their regularity in inflicting flagellations, [161].
Excellent Latin distich made at the expence of the society by one of their School-boys, [162].
Jews (the antient) made not self-flagellations part of their religious worship, [27], & seq.
The impartiality shewn to both sexes among them, [30].
The modern Jews adopt the practice of voluntary flagellations, [35].
A description of their manner of performing them, [35], & seq.
Coercive flagellations were known among them, [27], [28].
The number of the blows was fixed by the Law of Moses at forty, [30].
Innocents (the day of the), a day of great retribution and justice, [328], & seq.
Giving the innocents is an antient as well as ingenious custom, [330], [331].
Italy. Processions of Disciplinants are much in vogue in that Country, [381].
The pageantry and festivity by which they are accompanied, [381], & seq.
Juliet of Gonzaga, abominable act of ingratitude and vanity of that woman, [271].
Juniperus (Brother), a great partisan of nakedness, [393].
His public entrance into the town of Viterbo, and noble carriage as well as sanctity on that occasion, Ibid.
Justin, quoted, [51].
Justina (the Monk of St.) his Chronicle quoted, [346], & seq.
Juvenal, his singular expression with respect to Augustus, [60].
His account of the cruel wantonness of Roman Mistresses with their slaves, [67], & seq.
The festival of the Lupercalia alluded to by him, [91].
K.
Kennet (Bishop), his Chronicle, quoted, [237].
Kitchen (the), is the appropriated place for flagellations in the Palaces of the Western Kings and great Men, [185].
Advantages of the place, ibid.
The great share the people of the kitchen bore in former times in supporting the dignity of Kings, [186].
Farther remark on the importance of the people of the kitchen, [191].
Their laudable zeal in assisting their Masters, [190], [191].
Kolben, his description of the Cape of Good Hope, quoted, [292].
L.
Labat (Father), his travels into Spain and Italy quoted, [382].
Lacedæmon Flagellating solemnities that took place there, [79], & seq.
Are described, or alluded to, by Cicero, Plutarch, Lucian, Seneca, &c. ibid.
Are still in use in the times of Tertullian, [83].
It is difficult to say whether there was more inhumanity or stupidity in these processions, [395].
Ladies have an abhorrence to cruelty, even in their acts of revenge, [320].
Neither do they intirely overlook offences; remarkable instances of both their spirited resentment and mercifulness, [321], & seq.
Aim at elegance in all their actions, [320], & seq.
The singular power of the graces to engage their attention, [376].
Have a right to flagellate their Husbands, [339], [340].
Lady (a great), mentioned by Brantôme; the remarkable entertainments and festivity that took place in her house, [239], & seq.
Lancelot du Lac, the Knight, his History quoted, [218], [228].
Lafontaine, the Poet, quoted, [116], [196], [243], [322], [409].
Law (the study of the), what is necessary to succeed in it, [282].
Lazare (the Fathers of), their seminary; the excellent institution it was, [162].
The extensiveness of their operations, [163], [164].
Their scrupulous exactness in performing their engagements, ibid.
The occasion of their seminary being abolished, [165], [166].
Lazarillo de Tormes, the notorious Spanish Cheat; how punished by his four Wives, [327].
Legend (Golden), a farrago of Monkish stories compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, [115].
Again quoted, [151].
Lewis XI. of France; the rascally turn of his devotion, [207].
Liancourt (the Lady of), account of this Lady; her competition with the Marchioness of Tresnel, [278].
Is worsted in the issue, [280].
Libanius, the Sophist, quoted, [288].
Limeuil (Mademoiselle de), a Maid of Honour to the Queen of France, [173], [174].
The misfortune that befalls her, ibid.
Lower discipline defined, [21].
Is adopted by Capuchin Friars and the whole Tribe of Nuns, [21], [404].
Were not unknown to the Greeks and Romans, [287].
Are known in France, [288].
In Italy, ibid.
Among the Persians, [289].
The Turks, ibid.
The Chinese, ibid.
The Arabs, [290].
In Denmark, [291].
Among the Dutch, [292].
In Poland, [179], [292].
In England, ibid.
In Spain, [293].
A few remarks on their propriety, [400], & seq.
Loyola (Ignatius of), gets himself whipt at School, [98].
Lucian, quoted, [24], [81], [82], [96], [319].
Lupercalia, account of that festival, [90], & seq.
It is continued to very late times, [93].
Is greatly improved, [94].
An attempt to revive it, [241].
A farther description of it, [396], & seq.
Had vastly the advantage of all the festivals of the like kind, contrived by other nations, ibid.
M.
Margaret, Queen of Navarre, attempts to make herself Mistress of the Town of Agen, [269].
Is forced to fly on horseback with the utmost hurry and expedition, ibid.
The consequences of it, ibid.
Masters in Rome; the great power they possessed over their slaves, [57].
To what degree they abused it, [57], & seq.
Instances of this abuse, [61], [66], & seq.
Provisions made by the Emperors to restrain them, [69], [70];
and by the Church, [61], [70].
Marlborough (the great Duke of), to what he owed his first advancement, [286].
Mathew (Brother), the godly personage he was, [262].
The lecture he bestows upon a young Lady who pays a visit to him in his bed, [263].
Ought not to be imitated, except by persons who possess as much sanctity as him, [294], [297].
Menagiana quoted, [233].
Menas, a Spanish Friar, does not keep his word to his female penitents, [246].
Middleton, his Letter from Rome quoted, [87], [318], [381].
Milo, how serves Sallust the Historian, who had meddled with his Wife, [65].
Milton quoted, [338].
Mind (the human), how variable and fantastick in her opinions, [281].
Singular instance of it, [281], & seq. [287], & seq.
Miserere, or 51st Psalm, the singing of it particularly used to enliven as well as regulate the time of religious flagellation among Christians, [32], [371].
Mistresses in Rome; the abuse they made of their power over their female slaves. See [Masters].
Molesworth (Lord), his description of a hunting-match at the Court of Denmark, [291].
Molly Mog, the song made to her honour by Gay, [77].
Molière quoted, [20], [99], [206].
Monastic Orders; by whom first instituted, [118].
Monasteries: voluntary disciplines were not in use in them, in the times of their first foundation, [118], & seq.
Monks, receive frequent disciplines from their Abbots, [135], & seq.
Cases in which such disciplines ought to be inflicted on them, ibid.
Do not much respect their Abbot, notwithstanding his power of flagellation, [154], & seq.
An explanation of this singularity, ibid.
Great lovers of entertainments, [142].
Account of a treat given by one to some others, [143], [144];
after reckoning for the same, [145], [146].
The remarkable zeal of one against adultery, [138].
The great zeal of another in vindicating the honour of the Virgin, [310], [311].
The wager made by a certain Monk, [314];
comes off winner, [315].
See [Friars].
More (Chancellor), adopts the opinion of the usefulness of flagellations for converting Hereticks, [259].
Munson (Lord), chastised by his Lady, [339].
Farther account of him, [340].
N.
Nakedness is thought by some to possess, of itself, a degree of sanctity, [391], & seq.
Account of several of its practitioners, ibid.
The strong arguments of Cardinal Damian in its favour, [389].
Is after all but an incomplete act of penance, [395].
Navarre (the Tales of the Queen of), quoted, [188], [330], [331].
Nuns, their confinement and amorous visions, [107], [108].
Settled days on which they are to inflict disciplines upon themselves, [120], [121].
Power of the Abbess to inflict disciplines upon them, [167], & seq.
Cases in which she is directed to use that power, ibid.
The spirited manner in which certain Nuns assert the honour of their Convent, [322], & seq.
O.
Orbilius (the flogging), [71], [160].
Ovid, his advice to Lovers, [341].
Again quoted, [407].
P.
Pardulph (St.) affords an instance of voluntary discipline, in early times, [198].
Pavillon, his verses to the praise of Iris’s Bum, [286].
Penance, or Penitence, is a Sacrament among Catholicks, [22];
its essentials, ibid.
The hundred years penance, what it is, [203], & seq.
Is sometimes performed in twenty days, ibid.
Was but a trifle for Rodolph of Eugubio, and Dominic the Cuirassed, ibid.
The Widow Cechald likewise performs it, [221].
Penitents, processions of Penitents.
See [Flagellants].
Blue Penitents in the City of Bourges; their fraternity abolished, [360], [373].
Peregrinus (the Philosopher), flagellatory pastimes of his, [96].
Persians, the use of flagellations is known among them, [53].
Are used at Court, ibid.
Peter I. (the Czar), inflicts flagellations with his own hands, [266].
Petrarch recommends flagellations, [76].
Petronius, his Satyricon quoted, [88], [89].
Philip II. of Spain, sends proposals of marriage to a Princess of the House of Austria, widow to the late King of France, [176].
Employs in this affair the agency of a Father Jesuit, ibid.
His success and that of the Jesuit, [177].
Philosophers, particular Sects of them among the Greeks practise self-flagellations, [83].
The greater number of them ridicule practices of this kind, [84].
Physician (a), consulted by Gretzer on the ill consequences of the upper discipline, [403].
His learned decision, ibid.
Picards, a Sect in Germany, declare for a state of complete nakedness, [392].
Carry their notions farther than the Adamites had done, ibid.
Pictures in Churches, are the Libraries of ignorant Christians, [25].
Their too great licence, ibid.
Many wicked thoughts propagated by them, [26];
as well as errors, ibid.
Plautus had been the servant of a Baker, [62];
quoted, [63], & seq.
His allusion to a singular practice of the vulgar in Rome, [95].
Plutarch quoted, [53].
Had been an eye-witness of the flagellating solemnities in Lacedæmon, [79], [80].
Poland; lower disciplines used in that Kingdom for mending the manners of Servants, [179].
For punishing Fornicators, [292].
Pont Euxine (the Hermit of the), his contrivance to rescue a young Woman from the hands of a military Man, [196].
Poggio, a tale of his quoted, [116].
Presbyter, whence the word is derived, [143].
Priors or Superiors of Monasteries, are the substitutes of the Abbots, [135].
Are invested with the same power of flagellation, ibid.
Great passion of one and remarkable use made by him of his power, [148].
Are apt to carry the joke too far in their use of flagellations, [153].
Are cautioned against it, ibid.
See [Abbots].
Q.
Quintilian quoted, [72].
Quixote (Don), his excellent and polite speech to the fair Maritornes, [295].
Is rather too inquisitive in his conversation with the Senora Rodriguez, [326], [327];
experiences the resentment of the Dutchess and the fair Altisidora, on that occasion, ibid.
R.
Rabelais quoted, [160], [284].
Rakes, how served in Rome by the Husbands of the Wives whom they courted, [64], & seq.
Raymond, Count of Toulouse, how absolved of his excommunication, [252].
Rodolph of Eugubio, his great feats in the career of flagellation, [202], [203].
Romans, the great power of Masters among them over their Slaves, [57].
See [Masters].
Consider a whip as a characteristic mark of dominion, [59], [60].
Flagellations were performed among them with religious views, [88], & seq.
Singular practices of this kind among the vulgar, [94], & seq.
Romuald (St.) a great flagellator, [153].
In one instance flagellates even his own father, [260], [261].
His Monks retaliate his flagellations upon him, [154].
His lucky escape, [157].
Rousseau the Poet quoted, [138], [284].
Russian Baths and Stoves described, [409].
Russian Ladies; how properly they punish a boasting Coxcomb who had affronted them, [334], & seq.
See [Ladies].
S.
Sadragesillus, preceptor to Dagobert, heir to the Crown of France, [74].
How used by his Pupil, [75].
St. Loe (Captain) gets the Boston Magistrates and Select-men served with a flagellation, [273], & seq.
Saints, the frequent tricks the Devil puts upon them, [125], & seq.
How they have received the advances of the Fair Sex, [261], & seq.
The expedient of a certain Eastern Saint to make himself cry, [364].
Sallust (the Historian), makes free with Milo’s Wife; how served by the Husband, [65].
Sancho, his manner of discipline, [195], [226].
Sanlec, a French Poet; his Satire on Confessors quoted, [234].
Scarron quoted, [285].
Scaligerana quoted, [36], [270].
Schoolmasters of modern times are as fond of using their discipline as ancient ones, [71], & seq.
Are not worth mentioning in so interesting a book as this, [160], [175].
Scot, a good Story of his, in his Mensa Philosophica, [232].
Scythians, their expedient to conquer their revolted Slaves, [51];
and success, [52].
Seneca quoted, [82].
Slaves, the wanton usage of them in Rome, [61], & seq. [66], & seq.
See [Masters].
Solomon (King), recommends flagellations, [76].
His opinion confirmed afterwards by that of Chrysippus, ibid.
Sorbona, whence the word is derived, [143].
Sovereigns; instances of Sovereigns upon whom disciplines have been publicly inflicted, [250], & seq.
Spain. An account of the processions of Penitents established there, [374], & seq.
Gallantry and nicety of honour that prevail in them, ibid.
The art of performing flagellations with gracefulness is taught there by Masters for that purpose, [376].
Spirit of Laws quoted, [173].
Stephen (Cardinal), dies suddenly for his having neglected the use of flagellations, [214], [302].
Stylites (St. Simeon), an Anchorite who had fixed his habitation on the top of a column, [114].
Superanus, a Greek Philosopher; laudable flagellations he inflicts upon himself, [98].
Surgeon, great favour and confidence shewn to him by a great Princess, [270].
His ungrateful conduit, ibid.
The greatness of his guilt displayed, [271], [272];
his punishment, ibid.
extreme justice of the same, ibid.
Syrians, flagellations of a religious kind used among them, [86], [87].
T.
Tales, Arabian Tales quoted, [290].
Of the Queen of Navarre, [188], [330], [331].
Thracians, flagellations of a voluntary kind used among them, [84].
Tresnel (the Marchioness of), is incensed at the arrogant competition of the Lady of Liancourt, a woman of inferior birth, [278].
Gets her served with a flagellation, [279].
More serious consequences of the affair, [280].
Triumpher among the Romans, the companion he had in his Car, [59].
V.
Venus, the strange weapon with which the Antients supplied her, [60], [319].
The Temple which the Greeks erected to her, [283].
Vestals, how punished, [167], & seq.
Villemartin (Miss de), is co-spectatress of a flagellation, [280];
is admonished never to do so anymore, [281].
Virgil quoted, [90].
Virgin Mary rescues an Usurer from the hands of the Devils, [304].
The assistance she gives to a person who used to pay devotion to her, [308].
The remarkable zeal of a Monk to assert her honour, [310], & seq.
Visitation (Nuns of the), discipline themselves when they please, [121].
Voltaire (M. de), quoted, [32], [207], [288].
Upper discipline defined, [21].
See [Discipline].
W.
Walpole (Sir Robert), his Excise Scheme, preferable, upon the whole to the schemes that took place in the times of the Roman Emperors, [124].
Whipcord, the great expence made about it by Government, [344].
At what time it began to be used, ibid.
Wife, Roman Wives not much better than modern ones, [64].
Instance of conjugal love of one whose husband offered himself to be disciplined in her stead, [232].
Inflict castigations upon their husbands, [339], [340].
Witasky, the Buffoon to Peter I. is a good hand at flagellating and cudgelling, [266].
Wurtzbourg, a Sovereign Bishoprick in Germany; a flagellation is an indispensable step to procure the installation to that See, [256].