_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.