INDEX.
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Mackay, Charles
Baldwin (King of Jerusalem), joins the Crusaders at Nice, ii. 27; becomes prince of Edessa, 30, 41; succeeds Godfrey as King of Jerusalem, 48; bible of his queen (engraving), 50.
Baldwin, Count of Flanders, chosen Emperor of the Greeks, ii. 80.
Ballads. (See Songs.)
Bamberg, view in; witches executed there, ii. 162.
Banditti in Italy, ii. 256.
Banking schemes of John Law, i. 4.
Bank of England, its competition with the South-Sea Company, i. 48, 66.
Baptism mocked in the witches’ “Sabbaths,” ii. 109.
Barbarin, Chevalier de, his experiments in animal magnetism, i. 286.
Barbarossa, the Emperor, commences the Third Crusade; his death, ii. 63, 64.
Barthelemy, Peter, his pretended vision and discovery of the “holy lance;” its effect on the Crusaders; battle of Antioch, the Turks defeated, ii. 35-40; charged with falsehood, subjected to the fiery ordeal, and burnt to death, 41.
Bastille, the. (See Paris.)
Bavaria, ordinance against moustaches, i. 302.
Beards forbidden to be worn; religious and political prejudices, i. 296-303. (See Hair.)
Beckmann’s remarks on the tulip, i. 86.
“Beggar’s Opera,” its popularity and immoral influence, ii. 258.
Beranger’s Song, “Thirteen at Table,” i. 257.
Bernard of Treves, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 119.
Best and Lord Camelford, their fatal duel, ii. 297.
Bethlehem, Shrine of the Nativity (engraving), ii. 43; Richard I. arrives there; view of the city, ii. 73.
Bible of the Queen of Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, (engraving), ii. 50.
“Blue Beard,” the Maréchal de Rays his supposed prototype, i. 132.
Blunt, Sir John, Chairman of the South-Sea Bubble, his share in the fraud, i. 63, 74, 77; his examination by Parliament, 75; his property confiscated, 81; Pope’s sketch of him, 74.
Bodinus, his persecution of witches, ii. 159.
Boerhave, his belief in Alchymy, i. 185.
Bohemund, his courage displayed in the Crusades, ii. 21, 28, 30, 31, 35, 38, 39; takes Antioch, by treachery in the garrison, 32; is made Prince of Antioch, 32, 41.
Böhmen, Jacob, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 177.
Bonfires on Tower Hill, on the committal of the South-Sea schemers, i. 79.
Booker, an astrologer, notice of, i. 244.
Boots, torture of the (engraving), ii. 131.
Borri, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 179.
Bourdeaux, haunted house at, ii. 221.
Bourges, house of Jaques Cœur (engraving), i. 134.
Boyd, Captain, killed in a duel, ii. 293.
“Brabant Screen,” the, a caricature of the South-Sea Bubble, i. 76.
Breda, siege of, i. 270.
Bremen, Nadel’s escape from prison, ii. 257.
Brinvilliers, Madame de, her atrocious murders; escape from France; subsequent trial and execution, ii. 208-214; relics of her fate anxiously sought after, 305.
Brown, Sir Thomas, portrait of; his belief in witchcraft, ii. 151.
Bubble Companies, contemporaneously with the South-Sea Scheme, their extravagant character, i. 52; profits of the promoters, 53; declared unlawful, 55, 86; companies dissolved, 57.