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 Dorylæum, 29.
Robin Hood, popular admiration of, ii. 250.
Robinson, Ann, the Stockwell "Ghost," ii. 234.
Rochester, Viscount, afterwards Earl of Somerset. (See Somerset.)
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.
Senés, 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.
Sevigné, 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.
Slang phrases. (See Popular Follies.)
Slow Poisoners, the. (See Poisoning.)
Smollett, on history and the South-Sea Bubble, i. 67.
Soliman the Sultan, his conflict with the Crusaders, ii. 18.
Somerset, the Earl of (poisoner of Sir Thos. Overbury), portrait of, ii. 200; his origin and rise at court; supposed vicious connexion with James I.; his intrigue and marriage with the Countess of Essex; the murder of Overbury; the earl's trial and sentence, 193-201.
Somerset, the Countess of, her participation in the murder of Sir Thos. Overbury, with portrait, ii. 201.
Songs: on the Mississippi scheme, i. 36; on the South-Sea Bubble, 50; on famous thieves, ii. 260; on witchcraft, popular in Germany, 165; popularity of "Cherry Ripe," "The Sea," "Jim Crow," 246.
Songs, Beranger's "Thirteen at Table," i. 257.
