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.