great seal (_engraving_), ii. 97.

Edward II. joins the last Crusade, ii. 95;
arrives at Acre, 97;
treacherously wounded, 98;
his patronage of Raymond Lulli the alchymist, i. 108;
its supposed motive, 135.

Edward IV., his encouragement of alchymy, i. 135.

Edward VI., his patronage of Dr. Dee, i. 152.

Egypt, the Crusaders in, ii. 83, 84, 90, 92, 93.

Elias claimed as a Rosicrucian, i. 175.

Elixir Vitae. (_See_ Alchymists.)

Eleanor, Queen of Edward II., her tomb at Westminster (_engraving_),
ii. 99.

Elizabeth, Queen, her patronage of Dr. Dee, i. 153, 162.

Elwes, Sir Jervis, his participation in the poisoning of Sir Thomas
Overbury, his execution, ii. 194, 197, 199.

End of the world prophesied in the year 999, i. 222;
by Whiston in 1736, 223.

Epigrams on John Law and the Mississippi Scheme, i. 24, 37.

Essex, Countess of, afterwards Countess of Somerset. (_See_ Somerset.)

Executions for witchcraft. (_See_ Witchcraft.)

Ezekiel claimed as a Rosicrucian, i. 175.

Falling stars regarded as omens, i. 223;
falling stars and other meteors before the Crusades, ii. 11.

Faria, the Abbe, the magnetiser, i. 294.

Fashion of short and long hair, beards, and moustaches, i. 296-303.

Female Crusaders. (_See_ Women.)

Feudalism at the commencement of the Crusades, ii. 5.

Fian, Dr., tortured for witchcraft, ii. 131.

Finance in France; the Mississippi scheme, i. 2, 6.

Fire-ordeal. (_See_ Duels and Ordeals.)

Flamel, Nicholas, the alchymist, memoir of i. 113.

Florimond on the prevalence of witchcraft, ii. 115.

Flowers, fruits, and trees, their significance in dreams, i. 254.

Fludd, Robert, the father of the English Rosicrucians, memoir of, i. 173;
introduces "weapon-salve" in England, 265.

Follies of great cities; cant, or slang phrases, ii. 239-248.

Fontainebleau, council held by Henry IV. and edict against duelling
(_engraving_), ii. 278.

Food, its necessity denied by the Rosicrucians, i. 176.

Forman, Dr., his participation in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury,
ii. 194.

FORTUNE-TELLING, i. 242-258;
presumption of man; his anxiety to penetrate futurity, 242.
_Judicial astrologers_: Lilly, 243.
Astrology in France, Louis XI., Catherine de Medicis, Nostradamus
(_portrait_), 246;
the Medici family, 247;
Antiochus Tibertus, 247;
horoscope of Louis XIV. 249;
Kepler's excuse for astrology, 249.
_Necromancy_, _Geoma