.)

Roger Bacon. (_See_ Bacon.)

Romance and poetry, their obligations to the Rosicrucians, i. 179.

Rosenberg (Count), a patron of Dr. Dee, i. 159.

Rosicrucians, the, their romantic doctrines; history of their progress,
i. 167;
their poetical doctrines, sylphs, naiades, gnomes, and salamanders,
172, 179.

Rouen, _view_ in, ii. 171;
the Parliament remonstrate with Louis XIV. on his leniency to suspected
witches, 172.

Rudolph (I. and II.), Emperors, their encouragement of alchymy,
i. 158, 165.

Rupecissa, John de, a French alchymist, i. 136.

Russia, tax on beards imposed by Peter the Great, i. 301.

"Sabbaths," or meetings of witches and demons, ii. 107, 133.
(_See_ Witchcraft.)

Sainte Croix, the slow poisoner in France, his crimes and death,
ii. 208, 211.

Saints, relics of, ii. 304.

Saladin, his military successes, ii. 63;
his defence of Acre, 69, 71;
defeated at Azotus, 72;
and at Jaffa, 74.

"Saladin's tithe," a tax enforced by the Crusaders, ii. 65.

Salamanders. (_See_ the Rosicrucians.)

Santa Scala, or Holy Stairs, at Rome, ii. 304.

Schinderhannes, the German robber, ii. 256.

Scotland, witchcraft in. (_See_ Witchcraft.)

Scott, Sir Walter, his anachronisms on the Crusades, ii. 74, 98.
"Scratching Fanny," or the Cock Lane Ghost; her remains in the vault of
St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, ii. 230.

Seal of Edward I. (_engraving_), ii. 97.

Seifeddoulet, the Sultan, his reception of Alfarabi, the alchymist, i. 98.

Semlin attacked by the Crusaders, ii. 15.

Sendivogius, a Polish alchymist, i. 164, 165.

Senes, Bishop of, his report on Jean Delisle's success in alchymy, i. 193.

Serlo cuts off the hair of Henry I. (_engraving_), i. 296, 298.

Seton, the Cosmopolite, an alchymist; memoir of, i. 163.

Sevigne, Madame, her account of Madame de Brinvilliers, ii. 208, 213.

Shakespere's Mulberry-tree, ii. 307.

Sharp, Giles, contriver of mysterious noises at Woodstock Palace, ii. 224.

Shem, the son of Noah, an alchymist, i. 95.

Sheppard, Jack, his popularity--lines on his portrait by Thornhill,
ii. 252;
evil effect of a novel and melo-dramas representing his career, 253.

Sherwood Forest, and Robin Hood (_engraving_), ii. 249, 250.

Shipton, Mother, her prophecy of the fire of London, i. 230;
her popularity, 231;
_view_ of her cottage, 241.

Simeon, the Patriarch, a promoter of the Crusades, ii. 7.