Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

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The Solution: Cagliostro

INDEX Alcacer-el-Kebir, battle of, 20- Cagliostro, career of, 80-94. 22, 25.

Ahasuerus, 111-114, Alvares, Matheus, 23.

Althotas, 82.

Ascham, Roger, letters of concerning Elizabeth, 316-318. Ashley, Mrs. Catherine, 284, 285, 298, 315, 321, 323, 324.

Austin, "Beau," murder of by John Law, 124, 134.

Balsamo, Joseph, early life of, 80-82.

Bank of England, early history of, 140-142.

Banque Generale, founding of by John Law, 126.

Banque Royale, control of by John Law, 127, 130.

Berners Street Hoax, 252-254.

Beugnot, Comte de, description of Cagliostro by, 86, 87.

Castro, Don John de, prophecy of concerning Sebastian, 24, visit of to impostor, 26-27.

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