_Dominic_ the Cuirassed, a Hero in the career of self-flagellation, 203, & _seq._ _Du Cange_, his Glossary, quoted, 142, 180, 200. E. _Edesse_, the familiar manner in which its inhabitants treated the statue of the Emperor Constantine, 288. _Edmund_ (St.) Archbishop of Canterbury, a great instance of his virtue, while he pursues his studies in Paris, 262. _Elizabeth_ (Queen), no lover of formality in giving tokens of her displeasure, 190. Seems to have used peculiar methods for rendering her Ministers what they ought to be, 343, 344. _Empress_, the, wife to Justinian II. is threatened with a flagellation by the great Eunuch, 173. _Engineer_, an, of the Town of Elæa, an officious mistake of his, and atonement for the same, 149, 150. _Essex_ (the Earl of) his letter to Queen Elizabeth, quoted, 343. F. _Fakirs_, their astonishing penances, which are well-ascertained facts, render every account of that kind credible, 115, 206. Dialogue between one and a Turk, quoted from M. de Voltaire, 207. _Fathers_, antient Greek and Latin, are their expressions about self-scourgings and beatings to be taken in a literal sense? 122, 123. _Fielding_, quoted, 294, 376. _Flagellants_, the formation of their processions, 345, & _seq._ The success they met with in different Countries, 350. Description of one of their itinerant processions in Germany, 351, & _seq._ Their establishment and first success in France, 355, 372, & _seq._ are there discountenanced at last, 373. Their fraternities must be distinguished from the sect of Hereticks, called _Flagellants_, 368. Account of these Hereticks, 369. Account of these fraternities, 370, & _seq._ Are, as it were, naturalised in Italy and Spain, 374. Manner in which they perform these processions in Spain, 374, & _seq._ In Italy, 382, & _seq._ Real cruelty of these Flagellants upon themselves, 384, 385. _Flagellating_ fanaticism, a kind of, seems to have taken place in England about the time of the Rebellion, 340. Proofs of it, _ibid._ _Flagellations_, are either of a voluntary, or a corrective, or a recommendatory kind. Voluntary flagellations were in use among most Nations of Antiquity, 79, & _seq._ Were unknown, it seems, to the first Christians, 102. Were not prescribed to religious persons by the first Founders of Monastic Orders, 118. Conjectures about the times in which they grew into use among Christians, 192, & _seq._ The time at which they certainly became universally used among them, 201, & _seq._ Cruelty with which they are performed, 203, & _seq._ 384, & _seq._ Incredible and superstitious stories contrived to recommend them, 299, & _seq._