et and their accomplices,
193-201.

Palestine. (_See_ the Crusades.)

Palmistry. (_See_ Fortune-Telling.)

Paper currency, introduced in France by John Law, i. 4.

Paracelsus, memoir and _portrait_ of, i. 142;
his singular doctrines, 145;
the first of the magnetisers, 262.

Paris, the Palais Royal (_engraving_), i. 12;
John Law's house, Rue de Quincampoix (_engraving_), 13;
Hotel de Soissons (_engraving_), 16;
incidents of the Mississippi scheme (_four engravings_), i. 15, 18,
21, 31;
the Place de Greve (_engraving_), ii. 192;
the Bastile (_engraving_), ii. 209;
house of Nicholas Flamel, in the rue de Marivaux, i. 118;
the Rosicrucians in, i. 170-173;
Mesmer's house; his experiments, 278.

Parsons and his family, concoctors of the "Cock Lane Ghost" deception,
ii. 228.

Paul's Cross, Dr. Lamb, the poisoner, attacked and killed there
(_engraving_), ii. 202.

Persecution of alleged witches. (_See_ Witches.)

Peter the Great taxes beards (_portrait_), i. 267.

Peter the Hermit. (_See_ the Crusades.)

Peter of Lombardy, an alchymist, i. 136.

Peter of Pontefract, his false prophecies described by Grafton, i. 234.

Petronella, the wife of Nicholas Flamel, i. 116.

Philalethes, Eugenius, a Rosicrucian, i. 175.

Philip I. excommunicated, ii. 8.

Philip Augustus joins the third crusade (_engraving_), ii. 64, 66;
his jealousy of Richard I., 69, 71;
returns to France, 72.

Philip IV., _portrait_ of, ii. 112;
his persecution of the Templars, ii. 113.

Philosopher's stone, searchers for the. (_See_ Alchymists.)

Pietro D'Apone. (_See_ D'Apone.)

Pigray on witchcraft in France, ii. 122.

Pilgrimages to Jerusalem before the Crusades, ii. 2.

Pilgrim's staff (_engraving_), ii. 56.

Place de Greve (_engraving_), ii. 192;
Madame de Brinvilliers; La Chaussee and others executed there for
poisoning, 212, 213, 215.

Plague at Milan prophesied, i. 225.

Plays on the adventures of thieves, their evil influence, ii. 253, 257.

POISONING, in Greece and Rome; its spread in Europe in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries; declared high treason in England, ii. 192;
Sir Thomas Overbury poisoned; full history of his case, with _portraits_
of Overbury, the Earl and Countess of Somerset, Lord Coke, and
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 193-201;
suspicious death of Prince Henry, son of James I., 200;
Buckingham said to have poisoned