ands, customary among the ancients as an act of adoration,
ii. 81; used by the primeval bishops, ib.; declined with Paganism,
ib.; prevailed at Rome, 82; an essential duty under the emperors,
ib.; practised in every known country, ib.

KNOX, John, his Machiavelian politics, iii. 242; his opinions on
toleration, 251; his predictions, 277, 278.

LAMBE, Dr., a magician, murdered in the streets of London, ii. 364;
fine and assessment on City companies in consequence, ib., note.

LA MOTHE LE VAYER, a great quoter, ii. 417.

LAMPS, Perpetual, i. 243; possibility of, ib.; Rosicrucians, ib.

LA RUE, i. 257.

LATIMER, Bishop, curious sermons by, i. 256, and note; his youthful
history, ii. 39, note.

LATOUR DU CHATEL, a neglected contributor to the Dictionary of
Trevoux, procures the mediation of the French government, iii. 231.

LAUDER, William, pretended discovery of plagiarisms of Milton, i.
137, and note.

LAUREATS, sketch of the history of, i. 454; ancient, ib.; Petrarch
the first modern, ib.; degrees granted to, ib.; formula employed in
granting the degree of, 455; their honours disgraced in Italy, ib.;
Querno crowned in a joke, ib.; honours lavished on, by Maximilian
I., 456; honours still conferred on, in Germany, ib.; unknown among
the French, ib.; appointment of, in Spain, ib.; in England never
solemnly crowned, 457; salary of, in England, ib.

LAZZARONI, iii. 82.

LAZZI, dramatic side-play, ii. 128.

LEAGUE, the, its pretext and its cause, iii. 142, 143.

LEARNED men, persecution of, i. 27; poverty of, 29; imprisonment of,
35; amusements of, 38.

LE CLERC, antagonist of Bayle, and author of three Bibliotheques,
the Universelle et Historique, Choisie, and Ancienne et Moderne, i.
15.

LE FEVRE, Nicholas, edition of his works by Lenglet du Fresnoy, iii.
249, and note.

LEGENDS, origin of, i. 89; Golden, 90; of the Seven Sleepers, 91;
account of several, 92, 93; Golden, abounds in religious
indecencies, 366; of St. Mary the Egyptian, ib.

LEIBNETZ, his admiration of Barclay's Argenis, iii. 339; anecdote
of, iii. 455.

LENGLET DU FRESNOY, his "Methode pour etudier l'Histoire," iii. 221;
his peculiar character, ib.; history of his Methode, 222, 224, and
note, ib.; his literary history, 224; a believer in alchymy, 225;
his political adventures, 227.

LE KAIN, anecdote