perjury, 176; proves that saints may be punished by proxy, 189; refuses to suffer as the Knight's proxy, 192; defies the Knight, 193; prepares to combat him, 193; is alarmed by the approach of the Skimmington, 196; explains the nature of the procession, 200; is assaulted by the rabble, 205; flies. 206; advises the Knight to consult Sidrophel, 214; proves that saints may employ conjurors, 215; his dialogue with Whachum, 232; is despatched to fetch a constable, 255; is abandoned by Hudibras, 261; resolves to retaliate, 273; discovers the Knight's treachery to the widow, 273; jeers the Knight, in the character of a spirit, 314; carries him off, 323; is recognised by Hudibras, 398; reveals the trick played on the Knight, 399; his reasons for flight, 402; defends the practice of running away, 404; advises the Knight to take the law of the widow, 410.
Ranters, a vile sect, 131, n. 1.
Rap and rend, 204 and n. 1.
Rationalia, 129.
Ravens and crows, birds of ill omen, 241, n. 4.
Ray's Handbook of Proverbs, 138, n. 2.
Recant, 173 and n. 3.
Records, felony to raze, 287 and n. 1.
Recruits, 333 and n. 4.
Red-coat seculars, 338 and n. 5.
Red-coat sentinel, 374 and n. 3.
Reformado Saint, 176 and n. 2; 330 and n. 3.
Reformado soldier, 198 and n. 2.
Reformation, 67.
Rem in re, 290.
Remonstrance, carried, 363 and n. 3.
Replevin. 436 and n. 1.
Reprobation, Presbyterian doctrine of, 322, n. 2.
Revie, meaning of the word, 134, n. 3.
Rhetoric, use of, 7 and n. 5.
Rhodoginus, Ludovicus Cælius, 199 and n. 2.
Ribbons, bits of, swallowed, 167 and n. 4.
Richard III., indignities offered to his corpse, 107, n. 3.
Rimmon, 358; a Syrian idol, 358, n. 4.
Rinaldo, 409 and n. 3.
Ring, a tool of matrimony, 339 and n. 2.
Rockets and white sleeves, 349 and n. 3.
Rogues, beat hemp, 227 and n. 2.
Rowland, William, Life, ii.
Rolf, a shoemaker, indicted for a design to kill the king, 368, n. 1.
Rolls, Colonel, a Devonshire gentleman, 2, n. 1.
Romance-writers, satire on, 91, n. 4.
Rome, the Church of, compared to the Whore of Babylon, 127, n. 2.
Romulus, the first Roman king, 335 and n. 4.
Ronsard's "Franciade," 2, n. 2.
Rooks, application of the term, 7, n. 3.
Root and branch men, 340 and n. 6.
Rope-ladders, use of, 343 and n. 3.
Rope of sand, 10.
Rose, under the, 385, n. 1; the, planted, 443 and n. 2.
Rosemary, virtues of, 167 and n. 2.
Rosewell, Sir Henry, 2, n. 1.
Rosicrucians, a sect of hermetical philosophers, 26, n. 2; 236 and n. 3; 238.
Ross, Alexander, 42 and n. 2; 199 and n. 2.
Rota club, 258 and n. 2.
Roundway Down, battle of, 62, n. 2: 405, n. 4; 406, n. 5.
Rovers, love-arrows shot at, 302 and n. 2.
Royalists, encomium on, 333 and n. 1; plots of the, 376 and n. 2.
Royal Society, their transactions ridiculed, 224, n. 3.
