Account of Pope Joan--Artifice of Pope Sextus V.--Some Christian Ceremonies borrowed from the Jews and Pagans--Melting of the Blood of St. Januarius--Addison’s opinion of it--Description of the Performance of the Miracle--Miraculous Image of our Saviour at Rome--Ludicrous Metamorphosis of a Statue--Relics--Head of St. John the Baptist--Sword of Balaam--St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins--Self-Tormenting--Penances of St. Dominic the Cuirassier--The Crusades--Their Cause and Progress, and the immense numbers engaged in them. 62
Pretenders to Royalty numerous--Contest between the Houses of York and Lancaster gives rise to various Pretenders--Insurrection of Jack Cade--He is killed--Lambert Simnel is tutored to personate the Earl of Warwick--He is crowned at Dublin--He is taken Prisoner, pardoned, and made Scullion in the Royal Kitchen--Perkin Warbeck pretends to be the murdered Duke of York--He is countenanced by the King of France--He is acknowledged by the Duchess of Burgundy--Perkin lands in Scotland, and is aided by King James--He is married to Lady Catherine Gordon--He invades England, but fails--His Death--Pretenders in Portugal--Gabriel de Spinosa--He is hanged--The Son of a Tiler pretends to be Sebastian--He is sent to the Galleys--Gonçalo Alvarez succeeds him--He is executed--An Individual of talents assumes the Character of Sebastian--His extraordinary Behaviour in his Examinations--He is given up to the Spaniards--His Sufferings and dignified Deportment--His Fate not known--Pretenders in Russia--The first false Demetrius--He obtains the Throne, but is driven from it by Insurrection, and is slain--Other Impostors assume the same Name--Revolt of Pugatscheff--Pretenders in France--Hervegault and Bruneau assume the Character of the deceased Louis XVI. 73
Disguise of Achilles--Of Ulysses--Of Codrus--Fiction employed by Numa Pompilius--King Alfred disguised in the Swineherd’s Cottage--His Visit, as a Harper, to the Danish Camp--Richard Cœur de Lion takes the Garb of a Pilgrim--He is discovered and imprisoned--Disguises and Escape of Mary, Queen of Scots--Escape of Charles the Second, after the Battle of Worcester--Of Stanislaus from Dantzic--Of Prince Charles Edward from Scotland--Peter the Great takes the Dress of a Ship Carpenter--His Visit to England--Anecdote of his Conduct to a Dutch Skipper--Stratagem of the Princess Ulrica of Prussia--Pleasant Deception practised by Catherine the Second of Russia--Joan of Arc--Her early Life--Discovers the King when first introduced at Court--She compels the English to raise the Siege of Orleans--Joan leads the King to be crowned at Rheims--She is taken Prisoner--Base and barbarous Conduct of her Enemies--She is burned at Rouen--The Devil of Woodstock--Annoying Pranks played by it--Explanation of the Mystery--Fair Rosamond 86