ector of the Mississippi scheme, his romantic history, i. 1;
his house in the Rue de Quincampoix, Paris (_engraving_), i. 13.

Law, Wm., his participation in the Mississippi scheme, i. 9, 42.

Le Blanc, the Abbe, on the popularity of Great Thieves, ii. 251.

Lennox, Col., his duel with the Duke of York, ii. 293.

Liege, Madame de Brinvilliers arrested there, ii. 213.

Lille, singular charges of witchcraft at, ii. 169.

Lilly, the astrologer, account of, i. 243.

Lipsius, his passion for tulips, i. 86.

London, the plague of 1665, i. 228;
inundation prophesied in 1524, i. 228;
the Great Fire, 230.
(_See_ also Cagliostro, Change Alley, Cornhill, Merchant Taylors' Hall,
Tower, Westminster.)

Longbeard, William, cause of his name, i. 300.

Longsword, William (_engraving_), joins the ninth Crusade, ii. 91.

Loudun, the curate of, executed for witchcraft, ii. 168.

Louis VII. cuts short his hair, and loses his queen, i. 299;
joins the Crusaders, ii. 53;
is consecrated at St. Denis, 55;
reaches Constantinople and Nice, 58;
his conflicts with the Saracens, 59;
arrival at Jerusalem, 60;
his sincerity as a Crusader, 61;
returns to France, 62.

Louis IX. undertakes the ninth Crusade, ii. 90;
his valour at the battle of Massoura, 94;
taken prisoner, 94;
his ransom and return, 94;
his second Crusade, 95;
effigy of (_engraving_), 220.

Louis XI., his encouragement of astrologers, i. 246.

Louis XIII., prevalence of duelling in his reign, ii. 280.

Louis XIV., his bigotry and extravagance, i. 5, 6;
remonstrated with by his Parliament on his leniency to supposed witches,
ii. 171;
_portrait_ of, 177;
establishes the "chambre ardente" for the trial of poisoners, 214, 283;
his horoscope, 249;
his severe edict against duelling, 283.

Louis XV., his patronage of the Court St. Germain, i. 201, 204.

"Loup-garou" executed in France, ii. 120.

Loutherbourg, the painter, his alleged cures by animal magnetism, i. 288.

Lulli, Raymond, a famous alchymist, his romantic history, with _portrait_,
i. 105;
his treatment by Edward II., 135.

Lyons, _view_ of, ii. 160.

Macartney, General, second to Lord Mohun, his trial for murder, ii. 292.

Mackenzie, Sir George, _portrait_ of, ii. 138;
his enlightened views on witchcraft, 137.

Macnamara and Montgomery, frivolous cause of their fatal duel, ii. 297.

MAGNETISERS, the, i. 262-295;
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