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nd, his courage displayed in the Crusades, ii. 21, 28, 30, 31, 35, 38, 39; takes Antioch, by treachery in the garrison, 32; is made Prince of Antioch, 32, 41. Boehmen, Jacob, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 177. Bonfires on Tower Hill, on the committal of the South-Sea schemers, i. 79. Booker, an astrologer, notice of, i. 244. Boots, torture of the (_engraving_), ii. 131. Borri, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 179. Bourdeaux, haunted house at, ii. 221. Bourges, house of Jaques Coeur (_engraving_), i. 134. Boyd, Captain, killed in a duel, ii. 293. "Brabant Screen," the, a caricature of the South-Sea Bubble, i. 76. Breda, siege of, i. 270. Bremen, Nadel's escape from prison, ii. 257. Brinvilliers, Madame de, her atrocious murders; escape from France; subsequent trial and execution, ii. 208-214; relics of her fate anxiously sought after, 305. Brown, Sir Thomas, _portrait_ of; his belief in witchcraft, ii. 151. Bubble Companies, contemporaneously with the South-Sea Scheme, their extravagant character, i. 52; profits of the promoters, 53; declared unlawful, 55, 86; companies dissolved, 57. "Bubble Cards," or Caricatures, i. 60, 61. Buckingham, Villiers, Duke of, his rise in the favour of James I., ii. 197; _portrait_ of, 198; suspected to have poisoned the king, 201. Byron, Lord, his trial for the murder of Mr. Chaworth in a duel, ii. 292. Byron, Lord, his poetical villains, ii. 259. Cagliostro, memoir of, i. 206; his adventures in London, 209; _view_ of his house, 215; implicated in the theft of the diamond necklace, tried and acquitted, 216-220; again in London, imprisonment and death at Rome, 220. Cagliostro, the Countess, i. 208; his accomplice; her wit, beauty, and ingenuity, 213-216. Cambridge University, annual sermon against witchcraft, ii. 127. Camelford, Lord, killed in a duel, ii. 297. Camhel, Sultan, his generosity to the Christians, ii. 84, 85. Campbell, Major, his duel with Capt. Boyd, and execution, ii. 293. Candlemas Eve, superstitious customs, i. 258. Cant phrases. (_See_ Popular follies.) Cards. (_See_ Fortune-telling.) Caricatures, referring to the Mississippi Scheme (_four engravings_), i. 25, 29, 37, 40, 44. Caricatures of the South-Sea Bubble (_seven engravings_), i. 60, 61, 68, 70, 76, 82, 84. Casaubon, his account of Dr. Dee's intercourse with spirits, i. 155. "Chambre A
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