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87, 90, 99; accused of witchcraft, 112; persecuted by Philip IV.; the grand master burnt, 113. Têtenoire, a famous French thief, ii. 255. Theatrical productions, on the lives of robbers; their pernicious influence, ii. 253-257. Thieves, Popular admiration of Great, ii. 249-260; Robin Hood, ii. 250; Dick Turpin, 251; Jack Sheppard, 252; Jonathan Wild, 254; Claude Duval, 255; Aimerigot Têtenoire, 255; Cartouche; Vidocq, 256; Italian banditti, 256, 257; Schinderhannes and Nadel, 257; evil influence of the “Beggars’ Opera” and other plays on the subject of thieves 253, 257, 258; Lord Byron’s “Corsair” and Schiller’s “Robber,” 259. Thomas Aquinas. (See Aquinas.) Tiberias, battle of, ii. 63. Tibertus, Antiochus, his wonderful prophecies, i. 248. Toads dancing at the witches’ “Sabbaths,” ii. 108. Tophania, La, a famous poisoner in Italy, her crimes and execution; the nature of her potions, ii. 206. Torture, its cruelty exposed by the Duke of Brunswick, ii. 170. (See Witchcraft.) Toulouse, witches burnt at, ii. 160. Tournaments and judicial combats. (See Duels.) Tours, haunted house at, ii. 221. Tower Hill, bonfires on the committal of participators in the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 79. Tower of London, Raymond Lulli the alchymist said to have practised there, i. 109; poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195. Transmutation of metals. (See Alchymists.) Trees, their significance in dreams, i. 254; susceptible of magnetic influence, 284. Trial by Battle. (See Duels and Ordeals.) Trithemius, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 124. Trois-Echelles executed for witchcraft, ii. 120. Troussel, William, his duel with the Constable Du Guesclin (engraving), ii. 261, 271. “Truce of God,” the, proclaimed by the first Crusaders, ii. 14. “True Cross,” fragments of the, ii. 3, 71. (See Relics.) Tulip Mania; the flower first introduced into Europe by Gesner, portrait of Gesner, i. 85; great demand for plants in Holland and Germany, introduced in England from Vienna, the flower described and eulogised by Beckmann and Cowley, 86; rage for bulbs in Holland and their enormous prices, 87; amusing errors of the uninitiated, 88; marts for the sale of bulbs, jobbing and gambling, ruinous extent of the mania and immense profits of speculators, 89; “tulip-notaries” appointed, sudden loss of confidence and fall of prices, meetings, deputation to the government, 90; unfulfilled bargains repudiated by the law courts, 91; the mania in England and France, 91; subsisting value of choice bulbs, 92. Tunis invaded by the Crusaders, ii. 96. Tunbridge Wells, a witch doctor there in 1830, ii. 189. Turner, Mrs. her participation in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 194, 198, 199. Turpin, Dick, popular admiration of, ii. 251. Undines. (See the Rosicrucians.) Urban II. preaches the Crusade (frontispiece), ii. 7. Valentine, Basil, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 119. Valentine’s Day superstitions, i. 258. Vauvert, the ruined palace at, haunted, ii. 220. Vezelais, cathedral of (engraving), ii. 54. Villars, Marshal, his opposition to the Mississippi scheme, i. 16. Vulgar phrases. (See Popular Follies.) Visions, pretended. (See Barthelemy, Agrippa, and Dr. Dee.) Waldenses, the, persecuted and burnt at Arras, ii. 115. Walpole, Sir Robert, his warning of the evils of the South-Sea bubble, portrait of him, i. 49-55; his measures to restore credit, 70, 71. Walter the Penniless, a leader of the first Crusade, ii. 15, 18. Warbois, the witches of, absurd charges against them, their execution, ii. 125. “Water of Life,” searchers for. (See Alchymists.) Water ordeal. (See Duels and Ordeals.) “Weapon-salve,” controversy respecting, i. 265. “Wehr-wolves” executed, ii. 120, 168. Westminster Abbey, Raymond Lulli, the alchymist, said to have practised there, i. 109; tomb of Queen Eleanor (engraving), ii. 99. Weston, Richard, an accomplice in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 194, 198, 199. Wharton, Duke of, his speeches on the South-Sea Bubble, i. 50, 75. Whiston, his prophecy of the end of the world, i. 223. William of Tyre preaches the Crusade, ii. 63, 65. Wilson, ——, killed in a duel by John Law, i. 3. Wirdig, Sebastian, the magnetiser, i. 273. Witchcraft:—Account of the witch mania, ii. 101-191; popular belief in witches, ii. 102; their supposed compacts with the devil; popular notions of the devil and demons, 103; witches could secure their services, 107; their meetings or “Sabbaths,” 107, 133, 166, 169, 171; frequent persecution on the pretext of witchcraft, 110; the Stedinger, a section of the Frieslanders, exterminated on that charge, 110; the Templars accused of witchcraft; the Grand Master and others burnt; execution of Joan of Arc (engraving), 113; combined with heresy as a charge against religious reformers, 114; the Waldenses persecuted at Arras; their confessions under torture; belief common to Catholics and Reformers; Florimond on the prevalence of witchcraft, 115; witches executed at Constance; Bull of Pope Innocent VIII.; general crusade against witches, 117; Sprenger’s activity in Germany; Papal commissions, 118; executions in France; sanctioned by Charles IX., 119, 122; Trois Echelles, his confessions and execution, 120; “men-wolves,” executed, 121; English statutes against witchcraft, 123; Bishop Jewell’s exclamations, 124; the witches of Warbois; absurd charges and execution of the victims, 125; annual sermon at Cambridge, ii. 127; popular belief and statutes in Scotland, 127, 154; charges against the higher classes; against John Knox, 128; numerous executions; trial of Gellie Duncan and others, 129; James I., his interest in the subject; Dr. Fian tortured (engraving), 131; confessions of the accused, 132; their execution; further persecution, 135; case of Isabel Gowdie, 136; opinions of Sir George Mackenzie (portrait), 136, 155; death preferred to the imputation of witchcraft, 137, 139; King James’s “Demonology,” 139; the “Lancashire witches” executed, 141; Matthew Hopkins, the “witch-finder general” (engraving), 143; his impositions, cruelty, and retributive fate, 148; “common prickers” in Scotland, 146; Mr. Louis, a clergyman, executed, 147; Glanville’s Sadducismus Triumphatus, 148; witches tried before Sir Matthew Hale (portrait); Sir Thomas Brown’s evidence (portrait); conviction and execution, 148-152; trials before Chief Justices Holt and Powell, 152, 153; the last execution in England, in 1716, 153; Scotch laws on the subject, 154; various trials in Scotland 155-158; last execution in Scotland, in 1722, 158; proceedings of Sprenger in Germany, Bodinus and Delrio in France, 159; executions at Constance, Toulouse, Amsterdam, and Bamberg, 160-162; numerous executions at Wurtzburg, including many children, 163; others at Lendheim, 164; the “Witches’ Gazette,” a German ballad, 165; the Maréchale D’Anere executed, 166; 200 executions at Labourt, 166; “weir-wolves,” belief in, 168; Urbain Grandier, curate of Loudun, executed, 169; singular cases at Lisle, 169; the Duke of Brunswick’s exposure of the cruelty of torture, 170; diminution of charges in Germany, 171; singular remonstrance from the French Parliament to Louis XIV. on his leniency to witches, 171; executions at Mohra, in Sweden, 177; atrocities in New England; a child and a dog executed, 180; the last execution in Switzerland in 1652, 182; the latest on record, in 1749, at Wurtzburg, 184; witches ducked in 1760, 185; Lady Hatton’s reputation for witchcraft; her house in Cross Street, Hatton Garden, (engraving), 186; the horse-shoe a protection against witches, 187; belief in witchcraft recently and still existing, 187; witch-doctors still practising, 189; prevalence of the superstition in France, 189; “floating a witch” (engraving), 191. Women accompanying the Crusades in arms, ii. 12, 57, 67. Woodstock Palace a “haunted house;” account of the noises, and their cause, ii. 222; view of, 217. Wulstan, Bishop, his antipathy to long hair, i. 297. Wurtzburg, numerous executions for witchcraft, ii. 162, 184; view in, 183. York, Duke of, his duel with Col. Lennox, ii. 293. Zara besieged by the Crusaders, ii. 76. Zachaire, Denis, the Alchymist, his interesting memoir of himself, i. 146.

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