Страница - 199 Страница - 201 Nadel, Mausch, a German robber, ii. [257] . Naiades. (See the [Rosicrucians] .) Nantwich, Nixon’s prophecy of its fate, i. [240] . Naples, arrest and execution of La Tophania, the slow poisoner, ii.
[207] . Napoleon’s willow at St. Helena and other relics, ii. [307] . Naudé, Gabriel, his exposure of the Rosicrucians, i. [173] . Necromancy, its connexion with alchymy, i. [129] ;danger of its practice, [250] . New England, women, a child, and a dog, executed as witches, ii. [180] . Nice besieged by the Crusaders, ii. [26] . Nixon, Robert, the Cheshire prophet, i. [238] . Noah, the patriarch, a successful alchymist, i. [95] . Noises. (See [Haunted Houses] .) Normandy, witches in, ii. [172] . Nostradamus, the astrologer; his prophecies (portrait ), i.
[246] . Oath on the Evangelists and holy relics, a test of innocence, ii. [264] . Odomare, a French alchymist, i. [136] . Official peculation in France under the Regent Orleans, i. [7] . Omens: winding-sheets, howling dogs, death-watch, “coffins,”
shivering, walking under ladders, upsetting salt, thirteen at table,
piebald horses, sneezing, dogs, cats, bees, itching; Oriental belief
in omens, i. [255] . Oneiro-criticism; interpreting dreams. (See [Dreams] .) Ordeals. (See [Duels and Ordeals] .) 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] . [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: 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] . [142] ;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] ; 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] . 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] ; “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] ; 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] . [168] , [204] .Sorcery. (See [Witchcraft] and [Alchemy] .) 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] . 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] . [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] . 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] . 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] ; [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] ; Wulstan, Bishop, his antipathy to long hair, i. [297] . Wurtzburg, numerous executions for witchcraft, ii. [162] , [184] ; York, Duke of, his duel with Col. Lennox, ii. [293] .