Aurea-crucians, a sect founded by Jacob Boehmen, i. 177.

Avicenna the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 98.

Bacon, Lord, _portrait of_, ii. 286;
his opposition to duelling, 285, 287.

Bacon, Roger, his pursuit of Alchymy, i. 110;
his scientific discoveries, 111.

Bagnone, Francisco, the magnetiser, i. 272.

Bailly, M., his account of Mesmer's experiments, i. 281, 293.

Baldarroch Farm-house, "haunted," ii. 235;
investigation by the elders of the kirk; the noises caused by
servant-girls, 237.

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 Marechal 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.

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