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scheme, i. [11] ;portrait of; his financial measures, [33] . Damascus, besieged by the Crusaders (engraving ), ii. [61] . Damietta besieged by the Crusaders, ii. [83] ,
[93] . Dances of witches and toads, ii. [108] , [109] . D’Ancre, the Maréchale, executed for witchcraft, ii. [166] . Dandolo, Doge of Venice, his encouragement of the Crusaders, ii. [76] . D’Apone, Pietro, his studies in alchymy; his command of money;
charged with heresy, is tortured, and dies in prison, i. [104] ; D’Argenson, French minister of finance, a supporter of the
Mississippi scheme, i. [11] , [42] ; Dead, the. (See [Raising the Dead] .) De Bouteville, a famous duellist, temp. Louis XIII., ii. [280] ;beheaded by the justice of Richelieu, [281] . Dee, Dr., memoir and portrait of, i. [152] ;his “shew-stone” in the British Museum (engraving ), [154] . De Jarnac and La Chataigneraie, their famous duel, ii. [273] . Deleuze, M., his absurd theories on animal magnetism, i. [291] . Delisle, Alain, an alchymist, i. [102] . Delisle, Jean, the alchymist, memoir of, i. [189] ;his success in transmuting metals, attested by the Bishop of
Senes, [193] ; his imprisonment and death, [197] . Delrio, his persecution of witches, ii. [159] . De Meung, Jean, author of the Roman de la Rose , his study
of alchymy, his libel on the fair sex, i. [112] . Demons, popular belief in, ii. [105] ; De Nogent, his description of Peter the Hermit, ii. [7] ;of the enthusiasm of the first Crusaders, [12] ,
[23] . De Rays, Maréchale, the alchymist, memoir of, i. [125] . De Rohan, Cardinal, his patronage of Cagliostro, i. [213] -[215] ;his connexion with Marie Antoinette and the diamond necklace, [216] -[220] . D’Eslon, a pupil of Mesmer, i. [276] , [280] . Desmarets, Minister of France, his belief in alchymy, i. [192] . Devil, the, old popular notions of, ii. [103] ;various forms assumed by him, [106] , [107] ; presided at the witches’ “Sabbath,” [108] ; his appearance to De Rays and Agrippa, i. [129] ,
[142] . De Villeneuve, Arnold, his skill as a physician, astrologer and
alchymist (with portrait ), i. [103] . D’Horn, Count, murders a broker, and steals his Mississippi bonds (engraving ),
i. [21] ;efforts to save his life, inflexibility of the Regent, his
execution, [22] , [23] . Diamond, famous, purchased by the Regent Orleans, i. [27] . Diamond Necklace of Marie Antoinette, history of the theft, i. [206] -[220] . Diamonds worn by the Count St. Germain, i. [203] ;[204] . Digby, Sir Kenelm, a believer in the virtues of “weapon-salve,” i.
[265] . Diseases cured by imagination, i. [262] , [272] ; Divination, its popularity; by cards, the tea-cup, the palm of the
hand, the rod, and other modes, i. [251] . “Domdaniel,” or Witches’ Sabbath. (See [Witchcraft] .) Dorylæum, battle of, ii. [28] . Dowston, John, an English alchymist, i. [136] . Dramas on the adventures of thieves; their popularity and evil
influence, ii. [253] , [257] -[260] . Dreams, interpretation of, i. [253] . Dreams on particular nights, i. [258] . Dream-books, their extensive sale, i. [254] . Du Pompadour, Madame, and the Count de St. Germain, i. [201] . Dupotet, M., his account of Mesmer’s experiments, i. [279] , [285] . Drummer of Tedworth. (See [Haunted
Houses] .) 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] . 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] . 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. [294] . Germany, executions for witchcraft, ii. [118] ; 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] . 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] ; 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 Cœur 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] ;[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] ; 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] . [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] .