ncy_, _Augury_, _Divination_, 250;
various kinds of divination; cards, the palm, the rod, &c., 251;
interpretation of dreams, 253.

Foulque, Bishop of Neuilly, promoter of the fifth Crusade, ii. 76.

France, its finances in the eighteenth century; the Mississippi scheme,
i. 5, 6;
the Crusade preached there, ii. 8;
the cathedral of Clermont (_engraving_), ii. 9;
executions for witchcraft, ii. 119, 122, 174;
existing belief in witchcraft there, ii. 189;
the slow poisoners in, ii. 208;
immense rage for duelling in France, 276, 277, 279, 280;
alchymy in France. (_See_ the Alchymists, Paris, Tours, &c.)

Franklin, an apothecary, his participation in the murder of Sir Thomas
Overbury, ii. 195, 198, 199.

Frederick the Great, his opposition to duelling, ii. 298.

Frederick II., Emperor of Germany, undertakes the Crusade, ii. 84;
crowns himself king at Jerusalem, 86;
returns to Germany, 87.

Frederick III. of Denmark, his patronage of alchymy, i. 183.

Gambling speculations. (_See_ Mississippi Scheme and South-Sea Bubble.)

Garinet, Jules, his _Histoire de la Magie en France_, ii. 105, 109, 122,
189, 221.

Gateway of Merchant-Tailors' Hall, with South-Sea speculators
(_engraving_), i. 62.

Gay, the poet, his shares in the South-Sea Company, i. 65.

Geber, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 96;
his scientific discoveries; English translation of his work, 97.

Geomancy described, i. 250.

Geoffrey, M., his exposure of the tricks of alchymists, i. 188.

George I., his speeches and proclamation on the South-Sea Bubble,
i. 47-55, 69;
his grief on the death of the Earl of Stanhope, i. 75.

George III. refuses to pardon Major Campbell for the death of Capt.
Boyd in a duel, ii. 293.

Germany, executions for witchcraft, ii. 118;
duelling in, 282, 298;
alchymy in, encouraged by the emperors, i. 119, 135, 158;
the Rosicrucians in, 178;
animal magnetism in, 290.

Gesner, Conrad, the first tulip cultivator, _portrait_ of, i. 85.

Ghosts. (_See_ Haunted Houses.)

Gibbon, Edward, grandfather of the historian, his participation in the
South-Sea fraud, i. 73, 77;
heavily fined, 81;
his grandson's account of the proceedings, 81.

Gisors, meeting there of Henry II. and Philip Augustus (_engraving_),
ii. 65.

Glanvill, Rev. J., his work on witchcraft, ii. 148, 224.

Glauber, an alchymist, i. 187.

Glen, Lincolnshire, belief in witches