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| Introduction | |
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| The Assassins | |
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| State of the World in the Seventh Century | |
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| Western Empire | |
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| Eastern Empire | |
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| Persia | |
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| Arabia | |
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| Mohammed | |
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| His probable Motives | |
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| Character of his Religion | |
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| The Koran | |
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| Origin of the Khalifat | |
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| The first Khalifs | |
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| Extent of the Arabian Empire | |
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| Schism among the Mohammedans | |
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| Soonees and Sheahs | |
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| Sects of the latter | |
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| The Keissanee | |
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| The Zeidites | |
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| The Ghoollat | |
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| The Imamee | |
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| Sects of the Imamee | |
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| Their political Character | |
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| The Carmathites | |
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| Origin of the Fatimite Khalifs | |
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| Secret Society at Cairo | |
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| Doctrines taught in it | |
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| Its Decline | |
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| Ali of Rei | |
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| His son Hassan Sabah | |
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| Hassan sent to study at Nishaboor | |
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| Meets there Omar Khiam and Nizam-al-Moolk | |
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| Agreement made by them | |
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| Hassan introduced by Nizam to Sultan Malek Shah | |
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| Obliged to leave the Court | |
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| Anecdote of him | |
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| His own account of his Conversion | |
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| Goes to Egypt | |
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| Returns to Persia | |
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| Makes himself Master of Alamoot | |
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| Description of Alamoot | |
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| Fruitless attempts to recover it | |
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| Extension of the Ismailite Power | |
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| The Ismailites in Syria | |
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| Attempt on the Life of Aboo-Hard Issa | |
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| Treaty made with Sultan Sanjar | |
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| Death of Hassan | |
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| His Character | |
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| Organization of the Society | |
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| Names given to the Ismailites | |
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| Origin of the name Assassin | |
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| Marco Polo's description of the Paradise of the Old Man of the Mountain | |
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| Description of it given by Arabian writers Instances of the obedience of the Fedavee | |
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| Keah Buzoorg Oomeid | |
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| Afiairs of the Society in Persia | |
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| They acquire the Castle of Banias in Syria | |
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| Attempt to betray Damascus to the Crusaders | |
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| Murders committed during the reign of Keah Buzoorg | |
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| Keah Mohammed | |
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| Murder of the Khalif | |
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| Castles gained in Syria | |
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| Ismailite Confession of Faith | |
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| Mohammed's Son Hassan gives himself out for the promised Imam | |
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| His followers punished | |
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| Succession of Hassan | |
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| He abolishes the Law | |
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| Pretends to be descended from the Prophet | |
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| Is murdered | |
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| Mohammed II | |
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| Anecdote of the Imam Fakhr-ed-deen | |
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| Noor-ed-deen | |
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| Conquest of Egypt | |
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| Attempt on the Life of Saladin | |
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| Sinan the Dai-al Kebir of Syria | |
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| Offers to become a Christian | |
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| His Ambassador murdered by the Temblars | |
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| Cardinal de Vitry's Account of the Assassins | |
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| Murder of the Marquis of Montferrat | |
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| Defence of King Richard | |
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| Death of Jellal-ed-deen | |
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| Character of Ala-ed-deen, his successor | |
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| The Sheikh Jemal-ed-deen | |
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| The Astronomer Nasir-ed-deen | |
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| The Vizir Sheref-al-Moolk | |
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| Death of Ala-ed-deen | |
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| Succession of Rukn-ed-deen, the last Sheikh-al-Jebal | |
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| The Mongols | |
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| Hoolagoo sent against the Ismailites | |
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| Rukn-ed-deen submits | |
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| Capture of Alamoot | |
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| Destruction of the Library | |
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| Fate of Rukn-ed-deen | |
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| Massacre of the Ismailites | |
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| St. Louis and the Assassins | |
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| Mission for the Conversion of the People of Kuhistan | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Templars | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Crusades | |
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| Wrong Ideas respecting their Origin | |
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| True Causes of them | |
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| Pilgrimage | |
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| Pilgrimage of Frotmond | |
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| Of the Count of Anjou | |
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| Striking Difference between the Christianity of the East and that of the West | |
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| Causes of their different Characters | |
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| Feudalism | |
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| The Extent and Force of this Principle | |
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| First Hospital at Jerusalem | |
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| Church of Santa Maria de Latina | |
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| Hospital of St. John | |
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| The Hospitallers | |
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| Origin of the Templars | |
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| Their original Poverty | |
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| They acquire Consideration | |
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| St Bernard | |
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| His Character of the Templars | |
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| The Order approved of and confirmed by the Council of Troyes | |
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| Proofs of the Esteem in which they were held | |
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| Return of the Templars to the East | |
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| Exoneration and Refutation of the Charge of a Connection with the Ismailites | |
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| Actions of the Templars | |
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| Crusade of Louis VII | |
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| Siege of Ascalon | |
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| Sale of Nassir-ed-deen | |
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| Corruption of the Hospitallers | |
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| The Bull, Omne Datum Optimum | |
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| Refusal of the Templars to march against Egypt | |
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| Murder of the Ismailite Envoy | |
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| Heroism of the Templars and Hospitallers | |
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| Battle of Hittin | |
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| Crusade of Richard of England and Philip of France | |
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| Corruption of the Order | |
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| Pope Innocent III. writes a Letter of Censure | |
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| Frederic II | |
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| Great Slaughter of the Templars | |
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| Henry III. of England and the Templars | |
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| Power of the Templars in Moravia | |
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| Slaughter of them by the Hospitallers | |
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| Fall of Acre | |
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| Classes of the Templars | |
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| The Knights | |
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| Their Qualifications | |
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| Mode of Reception | |
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| Dress and Arms of the Knight | |
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| Mode of Burial | |
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| The Chaplains | |
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| Mode of Reception | |
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| Dress | |
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| Duties and Privileges | |
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| The Serving-Brethren | |
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| Mode of Reception | |
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| Their Duties | |
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| The Affiliated | |
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| Causes and Advantages of Affiliation | |
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| The Donates and Oblates | |
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| Provinces of the Order | |
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| Eastern Provinces | |
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| Jerusalem | |
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| Houses of this Province | |
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| Tripolis | |
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| Antioch | |
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| Cyprus | |
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| Western Provinces | |
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| Portugal | |
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| Castile and Leon | |
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| Aragon | |
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| France and Auvergne | |
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| Normandy | |
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| Aquitaine | |
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| Provence | |
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| England | |
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| Germany | |
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| Upper and Central Italy | |
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| Apulia and Sicily | |
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| Officers of the Order | |
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| The Master | |
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| Mode of Election | |
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| His Rights and Privileges | |
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| Restraints on him | |
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| The Seneschal | |
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| The Marshal | |
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| The Treasurer | |
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| The Draper | |
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| The Turcopilar | |
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| Great-Priors | |
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| Commanders | |
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| Visitors | |
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| Sub-Marshal | |
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| Standard-bearer | |
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| Chapters | |
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| Mode of holding them | |
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| Templars' Mode of Living | |
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| Amusements | |
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| Conduct in War | |
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| Molay elected Master | |
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| Last attempt of the Christians in Syria | |
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| Conduct of the Three Military Orders | |
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| Philip the Fair and Pope Boniface VIII | |
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| Seizure of the Pope | |
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| Election of Clement V | |
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| The Papal See removed to France | |
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| Causes of Philip's enmity to the Templars | |
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| Arrival of Molay in France | |
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| His interviews with the Pope | |
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| Charges made against the Templars | |
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| Seizure of the Knights | |
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| Proceedings in England | |
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| Nature of the Charges against the Order | |
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| Examination of the captive Knights | |
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| Different kinds of Torture | |
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| Causes of Confession | |
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| What Confessions were made | |
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| Templars brought before the Pope | |
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| Their Declarations | |
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| Papal Commission | |
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| Molay brought before it | |
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| Ponsard de Gisi | |
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| Defenders of the Order | |
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| Act of Accusation | |
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| Heads of Defence | |
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| Witnesses against the Order | |
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| Fifty-four Templars committed to the Flames at Paris | |
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| Remarkable words of Aymeric de Villars-le-Duc | |
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| Templars burnt in other places | |
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| Further Examinations | |
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| The Head worshipped by the Templars | |
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| John de Pollincourt | |
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| Peter de la Palu | |
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| Examinations in England | |
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| Germany | |
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| Spain | |
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| Italy | |
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| Naples and Provence | |
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| Sicily | |
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| Cyprus | |
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| Meeting of the Council of Vienne | |
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| Suppression of the Order | |
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| Fate of its Members | |
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| Death of Molay | |
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| The Secret Tribunals of Westphalia | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Original Westphalia | |
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| Conquest of the Saxons by Charlemagne | |
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| His Regulations | |
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| Dukes of Saxony | |
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| State of Germany | |
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| Henry the Lion | |
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| His Outlawry | |
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| Consequences of it | |
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| Origin of German Towns | |
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| Origin of the Fehm-gerichte, or Secret Tribunals | |
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| Theories of their Origin | |
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| Origin of their Name | |
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| Synonymous Terms | |
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| The Tribunal-Lord | |
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| The Count | |
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| The Schoppen | |
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| The Messengers | |
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| The Public Court | |
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| The Secret Tribunal | |
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| Extent of its Jurisdiction | |
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| Places of holding the Courts | |
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| Time of holding them | |
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| Proceedings in them | |
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| Process where the Criminal was caught in the fact | |
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| Inquisitorial Process | |
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| Accusatorial Process | |
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| Persons liable to it | |
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| Mode of Citation | |
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| Mode of Procedure | |
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| Right of Appeal | |
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| The General Chapter | |
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| Rights of the Emperor | |
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| Of his Lieutenant | |
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| Of the Stuhlherrn, or Tribunal-Lords | |
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| Fehm-courts at Celle | |
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| At Brunswick | |
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| Tribunal of the Knowing in the Tyrol | |
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| The Castle of Baden | |
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| African Purrahs | |
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| The Emperor Lewis the Bavarian | |
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| Charles IV | |
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| Wenceslaus | |
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| Rupertian Reformation | |
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| Encroachments of the Fehm-courts | |
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| Case of Nickel Weller and the Town of Gorlitz | |
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| Of the City of Dantzig | |
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| Of Hans David and the Teutonic Knights | |
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| Other instances of the presumption of the Free-counts | |
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| Citation of the Emperor Frederic III | |
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| Case of the Count of Teckenburg | |
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| Cause of the degeneracy of the Fehm-courts | |
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| Attempts at reformation | |
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| Causes of their high reputation | |
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| Case of the Duke of Wurtemberg | |
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| Of Kerstian Kerkerink | |
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| Causes of the Decline of the Fehm-jurisdiction | |