Chapter XI: Part 11

_Ladies_ have an abhorrence to cruelty, even in their acts of revenge,
320.
Neither do they intirely overlook offences; remarkable instances of
both their spirited resentment and mercifulness, 321, & _seq._
Aim at elegance in all their actions, 320, & _seq._
The singular power of the graces to engage their attention, 376.
Have a right to flagellate their Husbands, 339, 340.

_Lady_ (a great), mentioned by Brantôme; the remarkable entertainments
and festivity that took place in her house, 239, & _seq._

_Lancelot_ du Lac, the Knight, his History quoted, 218, 228.

_Lafontaine_, the Poet, quoted, 116, 196, 243, 322, 409.

_Law_ (the study of the), what is necessary to succeed in it, 282.

_Lazare_ (the Fathers of), their seminary; the excellent institution
it was, 162.
The extensiveness of their operations, 163, 164.
Their scrupulous exactness in performing their engagements, _ibid._
The occasion of their seminary being abolished, 165, 166.

_Lazarillo_ de Tormes, the notorious Spanish Cheat; how punished by
his four Wives, 327.

_Legend_ (Golden), a farrago of Monkish stories compiled by _Jacobus
de Voragine_, 115.
Again quoted, 151.

_Lewis_ XI. of France; the rascally turn of his devotion, 207.

_Liancourt_ (the Lady of), account of this Lady; her competition with
the Marchioness of Tresnel, 278.
Is worsted in the issue, 280.

_Libanius_, the Sophist, quoted, 288.

_Limeuil_ (Mademoiselle de), a Maid of Honour to the Queen of France,
173, 174.
The misfortune that befalls her, _ibid._

_Lower_ discipline defined, 21.
Is adopted by Capuchin Friars and the whole Tribe of Nuns, 21, 404.
Were not unknown to the Greeks and Romans, 287.
Are known in France, 288.
In Italy, _ibid._
Among the Persians, 289.
The Turks, _ibid._
The Chinese, _ibid._
The Arabs, 290.
In Denmark, 291.
Among the Dutch, 292.
In Poland, 179, 292.
In England, _ibid._
In Spain, 293.
A few remarks on their propriety, 400, & _seq._

_Loyola_ (Ignatius of), gets himself whipt at School, 98.

_Lucian_, quoted, 24, 81, 82, 96, 319.

_Lupercalia_, account of that festival, 90, & _seq._
It is continued to very late times, 93.
Is greatly improved, 94.
An attempt to revive it, 241.
A farther description of it, 396, & _seq._
Had vastly the advantage of all the festivals of the like kind,
contrived by other nations, _ibid._

M.

_Margaret_, Queen of Navarre, attempts to make herself Mistress of the
Town of Agen, 269.
Is forced to fly on horseback with the utmost hurry and expedition,
_ibid._
The consequences of it, _ibid._

_Masters_ in Rome; the great power they possessed over their slaves,
57.
To what degree they abused it, 57, & _seq._
Instances of this abuse, 61, 66, & _seq._
Provisions made by the Emperors to restrain them, 69, 70;
and by the Church, 61, 70.

_Marlborough_ (the great Duke of), to what he owed his first
advancement, 286.

_Mathew_ (Brother), the godly personage he was, 262.
The lecture he bestows upon a young Lady who pays a visit to him in
his bed, 263.
Ought not to be imitated, except by persons who possess as much
sanctity as him, 294, 297.

_Menagiana_ quoted, 233.

_Menas_, a Spanish Friar, does not keep his word to his female
penitents, 246.

_Middleton_, his Letter from Rome quoted, 87, 318, 381.

_Milo_, how serves Sallust the Historian, who had meddled with his
Wife, 65.

_Milton_ quoted, 338.

_Mind_ (the human), how variable and fantastick in her opinions, 281.
Singular instance of it, 281, & _seq._ 287, & _seq._

_Miserere_, or 51st Psalm, the singing of it particularly used to
enliven as well as regulate the time of religious flagellation
among Christians, 32, 371.

_Mistresses_ in Rome; the abuse they made of their power over their
female slaves. See _Masters_.

_Molesworth_ (Lord), his description of a hunting-match at the Court
of Denmark, 291.

_Molly_ Mog, the song made to her honour by Gay, 77.

_Molière_ quoted, 20, 99, 206.

_Monastic_ Orders; by whom first instituted, 118.

_Monasteries_: voluntary disciplines were not in use in them, in the
times of their first foundation, 118, & _seq._

_Monks_, receive frequent disciplines from their Abbots, 135, & _seq._
Cases in which such disciplines ought to be inflicted on them,
_ibid._
Do not much respect their Abbot, notwithstanding his power of
flagellation, 154, & _seq._
An explanation of this singularity, _ibid._
Great lovers of entertainments, 142.
Account of a treat given by one to some others, 143, 144;
after reckoning for the same, 145, 146.
The remarkable zeal of one against adultery, 138.
The great zeal of another in vindicating the honour of the Virgin,
310, 311.
The wager made by a certain Monk, 314;
comes off winner, 315.
See _Friars_.

_More_ (Chancellor), adopts the opinion of the usefulness of
flagellations for converting Hereticks, 259.

_Munson_ (Lord), chastised by his Lady, 339.
Farther account of him, 340.

N.

_Nakedness_ is thought by some to possess, of itself, a degree of
sanctity, 391, & _seq._
Account of several of its practitioners, _ibid._
The strong arguments of Cardinal Damian in its favour, 389.
Is after all but an incomplete act of penance, 395.

_Navarre_ (the Tales of the Queen of), quoted, 188, 330, 331.

_Nuns_, their confinement and amorous visions, 107, 108.
Settled days on which they are to inflict disciplines upon
themselves, 120, 121.
Power of the Abbess to inflict disciplines upon them, 167, & _seq._
Cases in which she is directed to use that power, _ibid._
The spirited manner in which certain Nuns assert the honour of their
Convent, 322, & _seq._

O.

_Orbilius_ (the flogging), 71, 160.

_Ovid_, his advice to Lovers, 341.
Again quoted, 407.

P.

_Pardulph_ (St.) affords an instance of voluntary discipline, in early
times, 198.

_Pavillon_, his verses to the praise of Iris’s Bum, 286.

_Penance_, or Penitence, is a Sacrament among Catholicks, 22;
its essentials, _ibid._
The hundred years penance, what it is, 203, & _seq._
Is sometimes performed in twenty days, _ibid._
Was but a trifle for Rodolph of Eugubio, and Dominic the Cuirassed,
_ibid._
The Widow Cechald likewise performs it, 221.

_Penitents_, processions of Penitents.
See _Flagellants_.
Blue Penitents in the City of Bourges; their fraternity abolished,
360, 373.

_Peregrinus_ (the Philosopher), flagellatory pastimes of his, 96.

_Persians_, the use of flagellations is known among them, 53.
Are used at Court, _ibid._

_Peter_ I. (the Czar), inflicts flagellations with his own hands, 266.

_Petrarch_ recommends flagellations, 76.

_Petronius_, his Satyricon quoted, 88, 89.

_Philip_ II. of Spain, sends proposals of marriage to a Princess of
the House of Austria, widow to the late King of France, 176.
Employs in this affair the agency of a Father Jesuit, _ibid._
His success and that of the Jesuit, 177.

_Philosophers_, particular Sects of them among the Greeks practise
self-flagellations, 83.
The greater number of them ridicule practices of this kind, 84.

_Physician_ (a), consulted by Gretzer on the ill consequences of the
upper discipline, 403.
His learned decision, _ibid._

_Picards_, a Sect in Germany, declare for a state of complete
nakedness, 392.
Carry their notions farther than the Adamites had done, _ibid._

_Pictures_ in Churches, are the Libraries of ignorant Christians, 25.
Their too great licence, _ibid._
Many wicked thoughts propagated by them, 26;
as well as errors, _ibid._

_Plautus_ had been the servant of a Baker, 62;
quoted, 63, & _seq._
His allusion to a singular practice of the vulgar in Rome, 95.

_Plutarch_ quoted, 53.
Had been an eye-witness of the flagellating solemnities in Lacedæmon,
79, 80.

_Poland_; lower disciplines used in that Kingdom for mending the
manners of Servants, 179.
For punishing Fornicators, 292.

_Pont Euxine_ (the Hermit of the), his contrivance to rescue a young
Woman from the hands of a military Man, 196.

_Poggio_, a tale of his quoted, 116.

_Presbyter_, whence the word is derived, 143.

_Priors_ or Superiors of Monasteries, are the substitutes of the
Abbots, 135.
Are invested with the same power of flagellation, _ibid._
Great passion of one and remarkable use made by him of his power, 148.
Are apt to carry the joke too far in their use of flagellations, 153.
Are cautioned against it, _ibid._
See _Abbots_.

Q.

_Quintilian_ quoted, 72.

_Quixote_ (Don), his excellent and polite speech to the fair
Maritornes, 295.
Is rather too inquisitive in his conversation with the Senora
Rodriguez, 326, 327;
experiences the resentment of the Dutchess and the fair Altisidora,
on that occasion, _ibid._

R.

_Rabelais_ quoted, 160, 284.

_Rakes_, how served in Rome by the Husbands of the Wives whom they
courted, 64, & _seq._

_Raymond_, Count of Toulouse, how absolved of his excommunication, 252.

_Rodolph_ of Eugubio, his great feats in the career of flagellation,
202, 203.

_Romans_, the great power of Masters among them over their Slaves, 57.
See _Masters_.
Consider a whip as a characteristic mark of dominion, 59, 60.
Flagellations were performed among them with religious views, 88,
& _seq._
Singular practices of this kind among the vulgar, 94, & _seq._

_Romuald_ (St.) a great flagellator, 153.
In one instance flagellates even his own father, 260, 261.
His Monks retaliate his flagellations upon him, 154.
His lucky escape, 157.

_Rousseau_ the Poet quoted, 138, 284.

_Russian_ Baths and Stoves described, 409.

_Russian_ Ladies; how properly they punish a boasting Coxcomb who had
affronted them, 334, & _seq._
See _Ladies_.

S.

_Sadragesillus_, preceptor to Dagobert, heir to the Crown of France, 74.
How used by his Pupil, 75.

_St. Loe_ (Captain) gets the Boston Magistrates and Select-men served
with a flagellation, 273, & _seq._

_Saints_, the frequent tricks the Devil puts upon them, 125, & _seq._
How they have received the advances of the Fair Sex, 261, & _seq._
The expedient of a certain Eastern Saint to make himself cry, 364.

_Sallust_ (the Historian), makes free with Milo’s Wife; how served by
the Husband, 65.

_Sancho_, his manner of discipline, 195, 226.

_Sanlec_, a French Poet; his Satire on Confessors quoted, 234.

_Scarron_ quoted, 285.

_Scaligerana_ quoted, 36, 270.

_Schoolmasters_ of modern times are as fond of using their discipline
as ancient ones, 71, & _seq._
Are not worth mentioning in so interesting a book as this, 160, 175.

_Scot_, a good Story of his, in his _Mensa Philosophica_, 232.

_Scythians_, their expedient to conquer their revolted Slaves, 51;
and success, 52.

_Seneca_ quoted, 82.

_Slaves_, the wanton usage of them in Rome, 61, & _seq._ 66, & _seq._
See _Masters_.

_Solomon_ (King), recommends flagellations, 76.
His opinion confirmed afterwards by that of Chrysippus, _ibid._

_Sorbona_, whence the word is derived, 143.

_Sovereigns_; instances of Sovereigns upon whom disciplines have been
publicly inflicted, 250, & _seq._

_Spain._ An account of the processions of Penitents established there,
374, & _seq._
Gallantry and nicety of honour that prevail in them, _ibid._
The art of performing flagellations with gracefulness is taught there
by Masters for that purpose, 376.

_Spirit_ of Laws quoted, 173.

_Stephen_ (Cardinal), dies suddenly for his having neglected the use
of flagellations, 214, 302.

_Stylites_ (St. Simeon), an Anchorite who had fixed his habitation on
the top of a column, 114.

_Suetonius_ quoted, 59, 97.

_Superanus_, a Greek Philosopher; laudable flagellations he inflicts
upon himself, 98.

_Surgeon_, great favour and confidence shewn to him by a great
Princess, 270.
His ungrateful conduit, _ibid._
The greatness of his guilt displayed, 271, 272;
his punishment, _ibid._
extreme justice of the same, _ibid._

_Syrians_, flagellations of a religious kind used among them, 86, 87.

T.

_Tales_, Arabian Tales quoted, 290.
Of the Queen of Navarre, 188, 330, 331.

_Thracians_, flagellations of a voluntary kind used among them, 84.

_Tresnel_ (the Marchioness of), is incensed at the arrogant competition
of the Lady of Liancourt, a woman of inferior birth, 278.
Gets her served with a flagellation, 279.
More serious consequences of the affair, 280.

_Triumpher_ among the Romans, the companion he had in his Car, 59.

V.

_Venus_, the strange weapon with which the Antients supplied her, 60,
319.
The Temple which the Greeks erected to her, 283.

_Vestals_, how punished, 167, & _seq._

_Villemartin_ (Miss de), is co-spectatress of a flagellation, 280;
is admonished never to do so anymore, 281.

_Virgil_ quoted, 90.

_Virgin_ Mary rescues an Usurer from the hands of the Devils, 304.
The assistance she gives to a person who used to pay devotion to her,
308.
The remarkable zeal of a Monk to assert her honour, 310, & _seq._

_Visitation_ (Nuns of the), discipline themselves when they please, 121.

_Voltaire_ (M. de), quoted, 32, 207, 288.

_Upper_ discipline defined, 21.
See _Discipline_.

W.

_Walpole_ (Sir Robert), his Excise Scheme, preferable, upon the whole
to the schemes that took place in the times of the Roman
Emperors, 124.

_Whipcord_, the great expence made about it by Government, 344.
At what time it began to be used, _ibid._

_Wife_, Roman Wives not much better than modern ones, 64.
Instance of conjugal love of one whose husband offered himself to be
disciplined in her stead, 232.
Inflict castigations upon their husbands, 339, 340.

_Witasky_, the Buffoon to Peter I. is a good hand at flagellating and
cudgelling, 266.

_Wurtzbourg_, a Sovereign Bishoprick in Germany; a flagellation is an
indispensable step to procure the installation to that See, 256.

CONTENTS.

_The_ INTRODUCTION, 1

Chap. I. _The substance of the account given by the Abbé Boileau
of his design in writing his Book: he seems upon the
whole to have been of opinion that voluntary flagellations
were no very antient practice_, 17

Chap. II. _No persons, under the old Law, inflicted flagellations
on themselves, with their own hands, or received the same
from other persons_, 27

Chap. III. _Voluntary flagellations were unknown to the first
Christians_, 39

Chap. IV. _The use of flagellations was known among the antient
Heathens_, 51

Chap. V. _The subject continued_, 71

Chap. VI. _Flagellations of a religious and voluntary kind were
practised among the antient Heathens_, 79

Chap. VII. _Containing the most ingenious arguments of the Abbé
Boileau. The practise of scourging one’s-self was unknown to the
first Fathers of the Church; and also to the first Anchorites
or Hermits_, 102

Chap. VIII. _A few more of the Abbé Boileau’s arguments are
introduced. Self-flagellations did not make a part of the duties
prescribed in the first Monasteries. The only positive instances
of flagellations suffered by Saints, or the Candidates for that
title in the days we speak of, are those which the Devil has
inflicted upon them_, 118

Chap. IX. _Corrections of a flagellatory kind, inflicted by force,
were however, though in very early times, the common method of
correcting offences of a religious nature; and the power of
inflicting them was possessed alike by Bishops, and the Heads
of Monasteries_, 131

Chap. X. _Strictness of certain Superiors of Convents, in exerting
their power of flagellation. The same is abused by several
of them_, 147

Chap. XI. _Disciplines of the same wholesome kind have been
prescribed for Novices and such persons as are intended to embrace
the ecclesiastical Life_, 158

Chap. XII. _The same discretionary powers of flagellation have
been established in the Convents of Nuns, and lodged in the hands
of the Abbesses, or Prioresses_, 167

Chap. XIII. _The subject of voluntary flagellations among
Christians, is at last introduced. That method of self-mortification
appears to have been practised in very early times; but it does
not seem to have been universally admitted before the years 1044
and 1056; which was the time Cardinal Damian wrote_, 192

Chap. XIV. _The practice of self-flagellation meets with some
opposition; but this is soon over-ruled by the fondness of the
Public_, 211

Chap. XV. _Another difficulty. Which is the best plight to be in,
for receiving a discipline?_ 223

Chap. XVI. _Confessors at length assume a kind of flagellatory
power over their Penitents. The abuses that arise from it_, 227

Chap. XVII. _The Church at large also claims a power of publicly
inflicting the discipline of flagellation. Instances of Kings
and Princes who have submitted to it_, 249

Chap. XVIII. _The glory of flagellations completed: they are made
use of for curing Heresy_, 258

Chap. XIX. _The subject of the merit of flagellations continued.
Holy persons, though without any public authority, have used
them occasionally to give weight to their admonitions_, 260

Chap. XX. _The fondness of people for flagellations, gives rise
to a number of incredible stories on that subject_, 299

Chap. XXI. _A remarkable instance of a flagellation performed in
honour of the Virgin Mary_, 310

Chap. XXII. _Another story of a female Saint appeased by a
flagellation_, 317

Chap. XXIII. _Formation of the public procession of Flagellants.
Different success they meet with in different Countries_, 345

Chap. XXIV. _The last Chapter, in which the Abbé Boileau is
personally introduced: he is of opinion that the lower discipline
is contrary to decency, and the upper discipline is liable to
bring defluxions on the eyes_, 400

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