INDEX.
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Mackay, Charles
“Bubble Cards,” or Caricatures, i. 60, 61.
Buckingham, Villiers, Duke of, his rise in the favour of James I., ii. 197; portrait of, 198; suspected to have poisoned the king, 201.
Byron, Lord, his trial for the murder of Mr. Chaworth in a duel, ii. 292.
Byron, Lord, his poetical villains, ii. 259.
Cagliostro, memoir of, i. 206; his adventures in London, 209; view of his house, 215; implicated in the theft of the diamond necklace, tried and acquitted, 216-220; again in London, imprisonment and death at Rome, 220.
Cagliostro, the Countess, i. 208; his accomplice; her wit, beauty, and ingenuity, 213-216.
Cambridge University, annual sermon against witchcraft, ii. 127.
Camelford, Lord, killed in a duel, ii. 297.
Camhel, Sultan, his generosity to the Christians, ii. 84, 85.
Campbell, Major, his duel with Capt. Boyd, and execution, ii. 293.
Candlemas Eve, superstitious customs, i. 258.
Cant phrases. (See Popular follies.)
Cards. (See Fortune-telling.)
Caricatures, referring to the Mississippi Scheme (four engravings), i. 25, 29, 37, 40, 44.
Caricatures of the South-Sea Bubble (seven engravings), i. 60, 61, 68, 70, 76, 82, 84.
Casaubon, his account of Dr. Dee’s intercourse with spirits, i. 155.
“Chambre Ardente,” instituted by Louis XIV. for the trial of poisoners, ii. 214, 283.
Change Alley during the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 60.
Charlemagne, his edicts against witches, ii. 109.
Charles I. prevents a duel, ii. 287.
Charles II., his disgraceful conduct in reference to a duel, ii. 288.
Charles VI. of France, his studies in Alchymy, i. 117; his work on that subject, 136.
Charles IX. of France, his patronage of Nostradamus, i. 246; portrait of, ii. 119; his belief in witchcraft, 120.
Chaworth, Mr., killed by Lord Byron in a duel, ii. 292.
Chemistry, its connexion with Alchymy; valuable discoveries of the Alchymists, i. 207, 221.
Children in the Crusades; their personal bravery, ii. 45; are sold to slavery, 81.
Children executed for witchcraft, ii. 163, 179, 181.
Christina, Queen of Sweden, her patronage of Alchymy, i. 183, 185.
Clermont, Urban II. preaches the Crusade there; cathedral of (engraving), ii. 9.
Cock-Lane Ghost, history of the deception; views of the “haunted house,” ii. 228, 230.
Cœur, Jaques, memoir of, i. 132; his house at Bourges (engraving), 132.
Cohreddin, Sultan, his generosity to the Christians, ii. 84, 85.
Coke, Chief Justice, portrait of, ii. 199; the poisoners of Sir Thomas Overbury tried by him, 198.
Collins, Joseph, contriver of mysterious noises at Woodstock Palace, ii. 224.
Comets regarded as omens, i. 223, 225; actually dangerous, 228.
Conrad, Emperor of Germany, joins the Crusades, ii. 56; reaches Jerusalem, 60; returns to Europe, 62.
Constance, view of the town gate, ii. 116; witches executed there, 117, 160.
Constantinople during the Crusades, ii. 17, 23-26, 56, 77-80; view of, 78.
Contumacy (refusing to plead to a criminal charge); its severe punishment, ii. 199.
Cornhill at the time of the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 51.