_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_.