Harlequin, his Italian origin, ii. 117; turned into a magician by the English, ib.; the character essentially Italian, 118; treatises written on it, 121; a Roman mime, ib. and note; his classical origin, 123, note; his degeneration, 125; his renovation under the hand of Goldoni, ib.; improved into a wit in France, ib.
Hartlibb, Samuel, a collector and publisher of manuscripts on horticulture and agriculture, ii. 153.
Harvey, his discovery of the circulation of the blood, iii. [412].
Hazlerigg, Sir Arthur, “an absurd bold man,” a violent leader of the Rump Parliament, iii. [487].
Heart of a lover, story of, i. 233, 234.
Heavy hours of literary men, i. 392.
Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, topographical descriptions of, i. 202; treatises on, 204, 205.
Hemon de la Fosse, a modern Polytheist, executed in 1503, i. 216.
Henrietta, queen of Charles I., her character, ii. 337; anecdote illustrative of, ib.; after the Restoration, 338; various descriptions of her person, ib.; her contract with the Pope, 339; account of her journey to England on her marriage, 340; her French establishment, 341; anecdote of her confessor’s conduct, 342; the dismissal of her French attendants, 345; the amount of her supposed influence over her husband, 348.
Henry the Seventh, anecdote of, ii. 10.