witchcraft, ii. 152.

PROPHECIES: Plague of Milan, i. 225;
plague of London, 1665, inundation of London, 1528, 228;
great fire, 1666; earthquake, 1842, 230;
Mother Shipton, with _view_ of her cottage, 232, 241;
Merlin, 232-238;
Peter of Pontefract, 234;
Robert Nixon the Cheshire prophet, 238;
almanac-makers, 240 (_see_ Fortune-Telling);
end of the world, 222, 224;
earthquakes, 224.
(_See_ Modern Prophecies, the Crusades, Peter Barthelemy, &c.)

Puysegur, the Marquis de, his discovery of clairvoyance; his magnetic elm,
i. 283-286.

Raising the dead and absent, a power ascribed to Cornelius Agrippa, i. 142;
and Cagliostro, 217.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, an inveterate duellist, abandons the custom, ii. 297.

Raymond of Toulouse, a leader of the first crusade, ii. 21, 26, 29, 31,
34, 45, 46;
his supposed collusion with Peter Barthelemy, 35, 37, 41;
at the siege of Jerusalem, 46.

Raymond Lulli. (_See_ Lulli.)

Reinaldo, a leader of the first crusade, ii. 18.

RELICS, brought by the early pilgrims from Palestine, ii. 2;
swearing on, a test of innocence, 264;
fragments of the true cross; bones of saints; tears of the Saviour; tears
and milk of the Virgin; Santa Scala at Rome; relics of Longbeard,
Massaniello, La Brinvilliers, Dr. Dodd, Fauntleroy, Thurtell, Corder,
Greenacre, Thom, Shakspere, Napoleon, Waterloo, 302-308.

Religious prejudices and ordinances against long hair and beards,
i. 296-303.

Rhodes, Richard I. at (_engraving_), ii. 69.

Rice, Count, tried for killing Du Barri in a duel, ii. 293.

Richard I. sets out for Palestine, ii. 67;
attacks the Sicilians, 68;
arrives at Rhodes (_engraving_), 69;
his queen Berengaria (_engraving_), 70;
captures Acre, 71;
reaches Bethlehem (_engraving_), 73;
his concern on being obliged to retreat, 74;
his reputation in Palestine, 74.

Richelieu an alchymist, i. 198;
his opposition to duelling, ii. 279, 280.

Ripley, George, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 118.

Robert duke of Normandy, a leader of the Crusades, ii. 21, 31, 39, 46.

Robert count of Flanders, a leader of the first Crusade, ii. 21, 30, 31.

Robert of Paris (Count), his insolence to the Emperor Alexius, ii. 25;
killed at the battle of Dorylaeum, 29.

Robin Hood, popular admiration of, ii. 250.

Robinson, Ann, the Stockwell "Ghost," ii. 234.

Rochester, Viscount, afterwards Earl of Somerset. (_See_ Somerset