nd, 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.
Boehmen, 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 Coeur (_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.
"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.
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