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.