_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