BABYLONIANS, their mode of obtaining husbands, for homely women, 115.
BACHELORS punished by the Lacedemonians for their celibacy:--not trusted
with affairs of state at Athens, 115.
BARBERS, 140, 141, 142, 143:
--their antiquity, 140:
--formerly peripatetics, 141:
--their shops and poles, 141:
--female, 141:
--their citternes and "knack with the fingers," 142.
BAPTISM, vicarious, 109.
BATHS, ancient, 114.
BATTEL, wager of, 145.
BEARDS, habits of the ancients, respecting, 140:
--modern, 142:
--dyeing them an ancient practice, 142.
BELKNAP, Jeremy, Rev. 47:
--his desire for a sudden death, 75:
--regard for historical truth, 75:
--error, as to Gosnold, 75.
BELLS, and bell ringing:--weight of several:--a terror to "evill
spirytes," 37.
BENEVOLENCE, remarkable example of, 55.
BENTHAM, Jeremy, dissected by his own request, 8.
"BLEED AND PURGE all Kensington," 111.
BODIES, posthumous preservation of, 20.
BODKIN, the famous root and herb doctor, 109.
BOILING TO DEATH, a mode of punishment, 151.
BOODLE, William, his self-conceit, 49.
BOORN, Stephen and Jesse, remarkable case of erroneous conviction, on
circumstantial evidence, 79 to 85, both inclusive.
BORRI, Joseph Francis, a famous impostor, 113.
BRADFORD, Sheriff, anecdote of, 5.
BROCKLEBANK, Parson, anecdote of, 49.
BURIAL, joint stock companies, 58:
--their profits enormous, 58:
--of weapons, by the slaves, at Charleston, 34.
"BRING OUT YOUR DEAD," 27.
BUCHANAN, James, his errors, in relation to Major Andre, corrected, 19.
BURKE AND BISHOP, executed, for murder, with intent to sell the bodies,
7.
BURYING THE DEAD, manner of, commended, 21:
--in cities and under churches, objections to, 10, 11, 60, 61:
--manner of, and practices, connected therewith, in different ages and
nations, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 21, 30, 38, 96, 101:
--premature, 15, 91, 95:
--means for preventing, 91, 95.
BULL JOHN, and brother Jonathan, 104:
--John, the musician, author of "God save the King," 106.
BYLES, Mather, anecdotes of, 93, 94.