aunted house at, ii. 221.

Tower Hill, bonfires on the committal of participators in the South-Sea
Bubble (_engraving_), i. 79.

Tower of London, Raymond Lulli the alchymist said to have practised there,
i. 109;
poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195.

Transmutation of metals. (_See_ Alchymists.)

Trees, their significance in dreams, i. 254;
susceptible of magnetic influence, 284.

Trial by Battle. (_See_ Duels and Ordeals.)

Trithemius, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 124.

Trois-Echelles executed for witchcraft, ii. 120.

Troussel, William, his duel with the Constable Du Guesclin (_engraving_),
ii. 261, 271.

"Truce of God," the, proclaimed by the first Crusaders, ii. 14.

"True Cross," fragments of the, ii. 3, 71.
(_See_ Relics.)

TULIP MANIA;
the flower first introduced into Europe by Gesner, _portrait_ of Gesner,
i. 85;
great demand for plants in Holland and Germany, introduced in England
from Vienna, the flower described and eulogised by Beckmann and
Cowley, 86;
rage for bulbs in Holland and their enormous prices, 87;
amusing errors of the uninitiated, 88;
marts for the sale of bulbs, jobbing and gambling, ruinous extent of the
mania and immense profits of speculators, 89;
"tulip-notaries" appointed, sudden loss of confidence and fall of prices,
meetings, deputation to the government, 90;
unfulfilled bargains repudiated by the law courts, 91;
the mania in England and France, 91;
subsisting value of choice bulbs, 92.

Tunis invaded by the Crusaders, ii. 96.

Tunbridge Wells, a witch doctor there in 1830, ii. 189.

Turner, Mrs. her participation in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury,
ii. 194, 198, 199.

Turpin, Dick, popular admiration of, ii. 251.

Undines. (_See_ the Rosicrucians.)

Urban II. preaches the Crusade (_frontispiece_), ii. 7.

Valentine, Basil, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 119.

Valentine's Day superstitions, i. 258.

Vauvert, the ruined palace at, haunted, ii. 220.

Vezelais, cathedral of (_engraving_), ii. 54.

Villars, Marshal, his opposition to the Mississippi scheme, i. 16.

Vulgar phrases. (_See_ Popular Follies.)

Visions, pretended. (_See_ Barthelemy, Agrippa, and Dr. Dee.)

Waldenses, the, persecuted and burnt at Arras, ii. 115.

Walpole, Sir Robert, his warning of the evils of the South-Sea bubble,
_portrait_ of him, i. 49-55;
his measures to restore credit, 70,