minister of Queen Eliza noon,
Randolph, Thomas, Éart f
Moray Kandolph, Thomas, post 1.233, 781 Bain de Thoyraq, Pani, le 441; his history of Eng- land, 841, 642 Rape, Rodolph Erle, an thor of Baron Mun charan,.
Rat-otcher, antignity of the profession of a, Rata, legal processes against, 1 127 123; legenda con- nected with, H. 102, 103 11. 848 1. 125; 11, 629 Raymond of Pennafort,
Ranch, Christian,
Kay, John,
St, i. 151; notice of, 151 Raymund Nonnatos, St, f. 288 Waynal, G. T. F.,. Reich, Angus B,.
Head, Sir William, gnack Goliat, 1. 677, 678 Reading, Hock-tide sports
at, 1.499 Réaumur, notice of his thermometer,. . 464, 465 Hey, Misa, mistress of
Lead Sandwich, 1. 246; melancholy fate of, 486, 487 Icamier, Madame, 1. 617;
singular influence exer- eland by, .
Recollections. Bee Memory.
Red hand, the open, on the escutcheons of baronets
1. 736 1. 248 Resolute, story of the, IL. 786, 787 Respicius, Sc, li. 365
Restoration of Charles II, 1. 893-700; extravagant marry-mazings made fashionable by the, 32; service for anniversary of, discontinued, Resurrectionista, or body- snatchers, account of 1. 251, 232 Resuscitation of Individuals after being hanged,. 1. 824 Retz, Giles de Laval, Mar. shal de, the prototype of Bluebeard, ii. 727, 728 Review, Edinburgh, 1. 185, 166 Quarterly, its de- preciation of Keats, 1.168 Révolution of 1399, . 11. 397 of 1888, ii. 550, 551 completion of the, 1. 250; meetings prepar- atory to, 745-747 Revolution, French, leaders of the, ii. 500, 501 Revolution House, Whit tington, 1. 745, 746 Reynolds, Dr, 1. 164 dramatist, . 1. 517 Sir Joshua, 1.289; 11. 68; notice of his last days,. 1. 289 Rhenus, St, 1. 292 Rhine, the robbers of the- 11. 509, 510 Ithuddlan, castle of, siege of, raised by Hugh Dutton- 1. 430, 431 Ithy1, loss of life-boat from, i. 50 Ithyne Toll, the,. 11. 517-519 Ihya ap Thomas, alleged slayer of Richard III.-- 11. 247, 248 ii. 334
Ricardus. See Riquier. Rice, curious popular no- tion regarding, 11. 39 Rich, Mr Ellhu, instance of mysterious recollection recorded by, 1. 270 Rich, Mr, the Beggars Opera brought out by, 1.593; pantomimes intro- duced by, i. 765; his ability as a pantomimic actor, Rich, Sir William, Richard I. (Coeur-de-Lion), 1. 480; saved by a Norman knight from being taken prisoner, 331; history of-romance of-story of his discovery by Blondel, 480-482; his relations with Philip Augustus of France, 11. 54 Richard II. of England, 1. 58, 253, 470, 783; Sir John Linne's reply to, 182, 183; his uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, mur- dered by orders of, 11. 323, 324; deposition of, 397; mumming performed be- fore, when prince, 739 Richard III. of England, ii. 244, 404; the Countess of Desmond's testimony to his good looks, i. 150, 151; his share in Duke of Clarence's death, 271; his
of Cirencester, monk and antiquary, 1.327 Richard, 3t, four saints of
i. 228, 479, 738; fi. 242 Richardson, a fire-eater, fi. 278 -, Samuel, .. 20 Richardson's theatre, Bar- tholomew Fair,. ii. 266, 267 Richelien, Cardinal, ii. 315, 655; inspires Louis XIII. with distrust of his queen, 1. 134; his victim, Cinq- Mara, ii. 333, 336; tri- amph of,. Richelieu, Louis da Plessis, dake of, Richmond, Charles, Duke of
i. 284 Margaret Bean-
fort, Countess of, mother of Henry VII, notice of, 1. 826 Ricimer, Count, .
i. 443 Riddles, old collections of, 1. 332 Ridgeway, Benjamin, ser- vant of Joseph Ady, i. 616 Ridgeway, Cecilia, remark- able faster, i. 552 Riding, feats of rapid- i. 561, 562 the stang,. ii. 510, 511 Ridley, Bishop, ii. 451 Rienzi, Nicolo di, notice of- ii. 423, 424 Rleul, St. See Regulus. Rifle-shooting match in Soleure, ii. 15, 16 Rifle volunteers, skating parade of, on the Witham- i. 140 Rigo. See Henry. Rigobert, or Robert, St, 1. 49 Rimmon, a medieval demon-
Ring-finger, the, popular belief in its virtues, . 1 220 Ringing out the old year- il. 793, 794 Rings bearing a death's head, frequency of, in ancient times, i. 72 note; stories of recovered, 105- 107; wedding, custom of, 220-222, 719, 720; blessed by the sovereign, as speci- fics against cramp, 418; popular notion of curative properties residing in, ii. 752; mysterious virtues ascribed to, when en- graved with the names of the magi,
Riquetti, French engineer, i. 657 Riquier, or Ricardus, St, i. 555 Ritchie, Leitch, his ro- mance of Schinderhannes- ii. 509, 510 Ritson, Joseph, ii. 307, 404; quoted, i. 53; notice of,. 11. 405, 406 Rittenhouse, David, ii. 40 Ritter, Dr Karl, . ii. 385 • River, John, purchaser of Charles I.'s statue, i. 504 Rizzio, David, i. 345; mur- der of, Roads, improvement Highland, by General Wade, i. 369; miserable condition of, in former
Roch, or Roque, St, notice
Rochambeau, Jean Bap-
tiste, Comte de, ii. 5 Roche, Regina Maria,. i. 363 Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, ii. 124; his speech in character of a charlatan, i 167; a mountebank personated by, 512; notice of, ii. 126, 127 Rochester, Richard Watt's foundation at, . ii. 248, 249 Rochester, Robert Carr,
Earl of. See Somerset. Rock, or St Distaff's Day, i. 63 Rocket, the locomotive- ii. 347, 348 Rocking, a social and in- i. 68 dustrial assemblage, Rockingham, Charles, Mar- quis of, i. 625; assistance furnished by, to Burke, ii. 35 Roderick, Don, legend of ii. 124-126
Rodney, Admiral Lord, i. 275, 676; victory of, in the West Indies, Rodolph I., emperor, .
701, 702 Romanus, St, five saints of this name-
i. 305; ii. 113, 192, 486, 591 Romaric, St, ii, 671 Rome, Twelfth Day festivi- ties in, i. 62; carnival at, described, 65; annual ser- mon formerly preached to the Jews at, 70; cata- combs of, 101, 102; bene- diction of animals at, on St Anthony's Day, 126; celebration of festival of St Peter's Chair at, 130; service by the pope in the Quirinal Chapel at, on Candlemass Day, 213; ce- remonies observed at, in Holy Week, 397, 407, 412- 414, 419, 421; observance of Easter Sunday in, 426; death of Constable Bour- bon before, 601, 602; ex- pressions of Pope Gre- gory on seeing British children in market-place of, 679, 680; the Cam- pagna of, in July, ii. 87; vigorous administra- tion of Sixtus V. in, 275; Rienzi's revolution in, 423, 424; lotteries in, 468; saturnalia in an- cient, 745; the founda- tion of, an ancient chro- nological era, · 756, 757 Romilly, Sir Samuel, i. 316; ii. 538; notice of, 539, 540 Romney, George, the painter, ii. 698; his re- markable separation from his wife, .
curious circumstance con-
nected with his death, 183, 184 Rotiri. See Rusticus. Rotrou, Jean, Rotteck, Karl Wenceslaus Rodecker von, . Roubillac, François, 1. 92; his statue of Handel, Rouen, Prince Arthur mur- dered at, i. 471; monu- ment of Richard Coeur-de- Lion at, 482; story of windows in Cathedral of, 625; doubts on the burn- ing of Joan of Arc at, 702, 703 'Rough Music,' ii. 510, 511 Rouin, Rodingus, or Chro- dingus, St, ii. 350 Round table, an order of knights of the, attempted to be founded by Edward III., . i. 817 Rous, John, his Diary quoted, i. 393 Rousseau, Jean Baptiste- 1. 385, 480 , Jean Jacques, ii. 11; mysterious sensation recorded by, i. 270; his system of education, ii. 385 Routh, Dr, of Magdalen College, Oxford, i. 71; ii. 727 Rowe, Harry, noted char- acter,
Rowe, Mrs Elizabeth, i. 277 -, Nicholas, ii. 666 Rowing match of 1st August on the Thames,. ii. 157 Rowley, Dr, extraordinary attack by, on Dr Jenner- i. 628 Rowley, Thomas, pretended poems by, ii. 268-270 Roxburghe Club, the, book- printing association, i. 790, 791 Roxburghe, Jean, Countess of, i. 149 Roxburghe, John, Duke of, i. 391; his magnificent collection of books, 391- 393; sale of his library, 790 Royal George, loss of the- ii. 283, 284 i. 603 Society, the, Speech, curious ob- struction to the reading i. 223 ii. 551
of a, Royal Titles, abandonment of one of the, Rozier, Francis Pilatre de, i. 441 Ruadhan, St, Rubens, Peter Paul, i. 701 Rubini, Giambattista, i. 321, 485 Ruby, presented by Peter the Great to William III.- i. 175 Ruddiman, Thomas, i. 134 Rue and wormwood, rise in the price of, Rue, Charles de la,
Rosee, l'asqua, coffee-house established by, in 17th c. -advertisement by, i. 170, 171 Roseneath, alleged destruc- tiveness of its soil to rats- il. 103 Roses, the Tribute of, old French custom-its ori- gin, i. 604-606 Roses, Wars of the-
i. 492, 507-509, 787, 788 Rosler, Francis Pilatre de, i. 781 Roslin Chapel, notice of i. 623-625
Ross, John Kyrle, the Man of, ii. 556, 557 Ross, Rear-admiral Sir John- i. 817; ii. 284 1. 514 i. 730
Rush, Dr Benjamin, i. 53 --bearing. See Rushes. Rushes, used in former times to strew the floors of houses and churches- village festivals still ob- served in connection with the latter practice-use of, for candlewicks, 1. 505-507 Rushton, Thomas, scampish procedure of, 1. 363 Rushworth, John, · 1. 622 Russell, an eccentric cen- tenarian, i. 513, 514 Russell, John, Earl, ii. 233; his remarks on Lord North, i. 178; his esti- mate of the Rev. Sydney Smith, Russell, John, founder of the Bedford family, i. 367-369 Russell, Lady Elizabeth, classic attainments of- her cruelty to her son- i. 474, 475 Russell, Lady, Rachel, ii. 390 Miss, great-grand- daughter of Oliver Crom- well, anecdote of, 1. 192 Russell, Rev. Mr, of Kil- marnock, . i. 356 Russell, William Lord, ii. 94 Russia, benefits conferred
1. 738; curious juxtapo- sition of his body, 740; commotion excited by, in Queen Anne's time, ii. 696-698 Sachs, Hans, the cobbler poet, ii. 46, 546 Sackville, Lord George- i. 165; ii. 271 Sacramental vessels, por- traits of Christ and his apostles on, Sadler, Sir Ralph,
Sadler's Wells, garden and theatre of, Sadoth, St,
Safety-lamp for mines, ac-
count of Davy's Stephenson's,
Sage, Alain René Le,
--, Bishop John,
Sailor's letter, a, . Sailors, St Nicholas guardian of,
Saint-Simon, Louis, Duc de-
on, by Peter the Great, i. 174-176; professional fools in, 182, 185; first embassy from, to Eng- land, 304, 305; Lord Macartney's embassy to, 449, 450; connection of Kotzebue, the dramatist, with, 590; marriage-cere- monies in south-east of, 721; Whitsunday matri- monial market in St Petersburg, 722; its wars with the Circassians, 757, 758 Rusticus, or Rotiri, St, ii. 376 Ruth, General St, ii. 46 Rutherfurd, Lord, anec- dote of, i. 569 Ruthven, Alexander, brother of the Earl of Gowrie- ii. 178, 179 Ruthyn, Roger, Lord Grey 1. 335 Rutland, Earland Countess, sufferers from designs of witches, 1. 356, 357 Rutland, Edmund, Earl of, cruel murder of, i. 712 Ruysch, Frederick, 1. 284 Ruyter, Michael, Dutch admiral, i. 560; notice of, 561 Ryland, William Wynne, engraver and forger- ii. 100 Rymer. Thomas, ii. 693; his Fadera, quoted, i. 32 Saardam, residence of Peter the Great at, 1. 174 Sabas, St, two saints of this name, i. 499; ii. 658 Sabbas, St. i. 107 Sabbath, observance of the, revived by Queen Mar- garet, ii. 585 ii. 281 ii. 295
Rutina, St, two saints of
Saints, the Romish, i. 35; biographies of the, 629; functions of various-
Saladin, Sultan, i. 331; notice of, 331, 332 Sale of a wife, . i. 487, 488 Salency, rose fête of, ii. 63 Salerno, custom at, on All- Souls' Day, ii. 538 Salisbury, Countess of, i. 817 Richard Nevill, Earl of, i. 507, 508 Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, i. 676, 723; his last words, 377; James I.'s regard for, . ii. 598, 599 Salisbury, William Long-
sword, first Earl of, i. 339 Salisbury, or New Sarum, i. 371; mummeries of the boy bishop in cathe- dral of, ii. 665 Salmasius, Claudius, ii. 307 Salon, ghost story connected with town of, ii. 13-15 Salt, sitting below the, i. 647, 648; distribution of, at the Eton Montem-- ii. 665, 666 Salter, James, his museum at Chelsea, i. G07, 608 Saltpotre, odious domi- ciliary visits in old times for procuring a supply of materials for manufacture of, . i. 666, 667 Salvius, St,.
Rossmore, Baron, ii. 180;
Rump Parliament, Crom- well's dissolution of the- i. 528, 529 Runciman, Alexander, ii. 476 Ranjeet Singh, chief of
Sabinus, St,
Sacchini, Antonio, Sacharissa, Waller's-
i. 327; ii. 486, 487 Sacheverell, Rev. Dr Henry,
Sanders, a conjurer, 1. 353 Sanderson, Bishop, i. 186; li. 354 Sandwich, Earl of, his value
Scent-balls and pomanders,
use of, in ancient times- i. 290, 291 Schamyl, Circassian patriot, i. 756; notice of, 757, 758 Scheele, Charles William, ii. 714 Schiehallion, Dr Maske- lyne's experiment at-
i. 234, 235 Schiller, Frederick, i. 611; ii. 565; notice of, i. 611, 612; Goethe's friendship with,
Schinderhannes, the Rhen- ish robber,.
Scholastica, St, i. 240; riot at Oxford on day of,. Scholefield, Rev. James, ii. 579 Schomberg, Frederick, Duke of, School of Arts established at Edinburgh, . i. 87 School, orders of a, in 16th ii. 349 Schoolmasters, smoking prohibited to, i. 168 Schools, custom in Scottish, of making presents to the master on Candlemass- day, 1. 214; practice of cock-fighting and throw- ing at, in former times, at Shrovetide, 238, 239; other old customs at, 239, 240 Schubert, G. F. Von,. ii. 5 Scioppius, Caspar, i. 687; ii. 593 Scolds. See Shrews. Scone, Charles II.'s coron- ation at, i. 26; foot-ball
238 ii. 509, 510 i. 401 Scot, Sir John, author of The Staggering State of Scots Statesmen, i. 400 Scotland, New-year's Day festivities in, i. 28-30; bogs and peat-mosses in, 48; specimens of pronun- ciation in, 56, 57; Frank- lin's excursion to, 58; running-footmen in, 100; early teachers of Christi- anity in, 102, 103; cus- toms in, on Candlemass- day, 214; progress of the EmperorSeverus through, 222; April joking in, 461; unsuccessful attempt to introduce nightingales into, 515; the majority of people of, unfavourable to the cause of Charles Ed- ward, 519; May-day ob- servances in, 574; early communication between, and the north of Europe, 621; disruption of church of, in 1843, 652; flitting- day in, 679; cannibalism in, 688, 689; Christianity introduced into, by St Columba, 755, 756; cam- paign of Agricola in, 779; Ben Jonson's visit to, ii. 181, 182; an earthquake in, 210, 211; her hero, Sir William Wallace, 251, 252; Jerome Cardan's visit to, 360; manufacture of jam and jelly in, 383, 384; troubles occasioned to, by Maid of Norway's death, 420, 421; Churchill's satires on, 544; suppres- sion of the festival of Christmas in, at the Re- formation, 746; Hog- manay festivities in, 788-790 Scots, their wars with King Arthur, i. 701 Scots Worthies, written by by John Howie, i. 54 Scott, Captain Caroline, eulogised by Mallet,. i. 38 Scott, John, of Borthwick, wonderful faster, i. 552, 553
his translation of Lenore. i. 24; his anecdote of Charles Townshend, 154; his remark on Winser's scheme of lighting Lon- don with gas, 179; his false account of the alarm in 1804, 200; his remarks on Mrs Rad- cliffe's romances, 228; his hereditary talents, 236; instance of mysteri- ous remembrance corded by, 268; monu- ment of, in Edinburgh- notice of its architect, 335; last words of, 378; anecdote related by, of thumb-biting, 358; liter- ary imposture practised on, 457, 458; presents, on behalf of Lady Clerk, the knife-case of Charles Ed- ward to George IV., 519, 520; his panegyric of Shakspeare, 542; quoted, i. 807; ii. 732, 733; origin of his Grey Geese of Mucklestane Moor, ii. 245, 246; his account of Ritson, 406; his friend- ship with Washington Irving, Scottish Episcopal Church, its attachment to the Stuart family, i. 166 Scourers, the, riotous as- sociation in London, i. 743 Scramble Club, the, Man- chester, i. 197, 198 'Scrape, getting into a,' origin of the phrase, i. 78 Scratch-back, curious im- plement, ii. 237, 238 Scribe, Eugene, . ii. 742 Scrimshaw, Jane, centen- arian, i. 464 Scriptures. See Bible. Scrofula. See King's Evil. Scroop, Sir Gervase, singu- lar reanimation of, . ii. 488 Scrope, William,. ii. 89 Scuderi, Madeleine de, i. 728; her romances, 729, 730 Sea, interment of warrior chiefs near the, i. 337 Sea-scrpent, the, ii. 184, 185 Seamen, grievances of, lead- ing to mutinies in 1797-
Selfishness, discrimination of, by Dr Arnold,
Selim I., Sultan, .
III., Sultan,
Selman, John, the cut-purse-
Selwyn, George, celebrated wit, his passion for at- tending executions,. i. 161 Semler, a German would- be alchemist, i. 603, 604
Sempill, Lord, his regi- ment, afterwards the 42d Highlanders, i. 649-651 Senan, St,
Seneca, Roman philosopher, i. 499; notice of, Sennen, St,
Sennertus, Daniel, . ii. 94 SEPTEMBER, descriptive,
ii. 292-295; historical, 295 Septimius, St, Sepulchre, church of St, i. 610 Sequanus, or Seine, St, ii. 354 Serapion, St,
-, abbot, . i 400 -, the Scholas-
· . i. 400
tic, . Serapion, St, the Sindon- ite, .
1. 400 Serenus, St, two saints of this name, i. 289, 825
Serf, or Servanus, St, i. 528;
early apostle of Christian- ity in Scotland, 102, 103 Sergius, St,. . ii, 420 Seringapatam, taking of, i. 592 Sermons, never preached by the pope-Pius IX., an exception, i. 104; device for taking notes of, Serpent, formula for exor- i. 129 cising the, Serpents, St Patrick's extir- pation of, from Ireland-
Shaftesbury, festival of the Bezant at, Shah Jehan, father of Aurungzebe, the Koh-i- noor presented to,. i. 484 Shah-Nadir (Kouli Khan), i. 753 Shakeshaft, John, winner
of the Dunmow flitch of bacon, i. 750 Shakspeare, allusion by, to the man in the moon,' i. 53; comparative facility of Scotsmen in compre- hending language of, 57; poem said to have been written by, on Anne Hathaway, 65, 66; allu- sion by, to touching for the king's evil, 82, 83; geographical knowledge of, 136; supposition of his having acted as jester to Lord Leicester, 183; allusion by, to betrothal by exchange of rings, 220; to posies on rings, 221; to funeral garlands, 272; to the nursery tale of 'Mr Fox,' 291; 'curious rela- tions of, with his wife, 309; leading characters of, first personated by Burbage, 380; quoted, 399, 481, 515, 539, 510, 633, 637; ii. 45, 160, 594, 736; relics of, i. 590, 591; ii. 486; notice of, i. 542- 544; depreciation of, in time of Charles II., 682; his allusion to the Cots- wold games, 714; illus- trative quotations from, by George III., . ii. 371 Shakspeare, Anne, notice of,
John, celebrated
punch and club-house kept by, in Manchester- i. 196, 197 Shaw, Lieutenant, resist- ance of, to ceremonies at crossing the line,' ii. 653, 654 Shebbeare, Dr, i. 832; ii. 154; an umbrella held over, when in the pillory, i. 243; notice of, ii. 660, 661 Shee, Sir Martin A., ii. 235, 730 Sheil, Richard Lalor- i. 662; ii. 230 Shelburne, William, Earl of, i. 585; his friendship with Bentham, Sheldon, Archbishop Gil- bert,. ii. 86, 561 Shelley, Mary Woolston- craft, i. 207 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, ii. 169; notice of, 172-174; his friendship with Leigh Hunt, Shenstone, William, i. 245; allusion by, to the horn- book, 47; his inn-window quatrain-peculiarities of, 245 Shepherds, belief in France of their practising sor-
storyconnected with,ii.448-450 Thursday.
Maundy Thursday.
Sheridan, Dr Thomas, ii. 328; notice of, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, ii. 29, 516; hereditary talents of family of, i. 236; elaborateness of his plays, ii. 30; his funeral, 31 Sheridan, Thomas, father of the dramatist, ii. 213 Sherley, Sir Robert, ii. 105; notice of, 106, 107 i. 796
Sherlock, Dr William,. Thomas, . ii. 82 Sherwood, Mrs, ii. 366; notice of, . 369 Shield, William, . i. 158 Shillibeer, Mr, first starter of an omnibus in London- Ship, a Flying, in 1709- ii. 720-722 Shippen, Mr, his lines on death of Queen Anne's son, the Duke of Glou- cester, i. 410
Shipton, Mother, Life of
olden times, i. 351, 352; old tavern, in London, 536-538 Sigourney, Lydia Huntley, ii. 529 Silave, St, i. 645 Silk, manufacture of, intro- duced into Europe, i. 49; stockings of, Silver, belief of its improv- ing the tone of bells, erroneous, i. 301; dis- covery of ornaments of, at Norie's Law, Largo, 337, 338 Silver types, notion of cer- tain books being printed from,
Sleep, remarkable instances of protracted, i. 557; fatal inclination to, in- duced by cold, 642; of plants, Sleeping in church, employ- ment of officials to prevent- i. 524, 525 Sligo, Marquis of, his address to the negroes of Jamaica,. . ii. 159 Sloane, Sir Hans, i. 92, 517; notice of, 92, 93; a niece of, cured by Mrs Mapp, Small-pox, inoculation for, the bone-setter, introduced by Lady M. Wortley Montagu, i. 389-391 Smaragdus, St, ii. 189 Smart, Christopher, i. 497, 622 Smeaton, John, i. 689; ii. 506 Smedley, Rev. Edward,
Smith, Admiral Sir Sidney, i. 681
Show prodigies, . Showers of animals, ii. 361, 362 Shows. See Pageants. Shrews, taming of, in olden times, i. 208-212 Shrewsbury, Charles, Duke of, i. 207; notice of, Shrewsbury, Earl of, and his termagant spouse- i. 595, 596 Shrewsbury, Earl of, si- lences the bluster of a French ambassador,. i. 247 Shrewsbury, Earl of, testi- monial presented to, ii. 149 Shrewsbury, Francis Tal- bot, Earl of,fight between, and Duke of Buckingham- i. 129, 130 Shrewsbury, simnel-cakes of, i. 336; Show, 704-708; battle of,. ii. 102, 103 Shropshire, popular story current in, regarding origin of simnel-cakes, i. 337 Shrove Tuesday, festival of- Shurland, Sir Robert, legend i. 236-239 regarding,
Ctesiphon, i. 521 Simeon, St, surnamed Salus, ii. 5 Stylites, St, notice of, i. 53 Simeon Stylites, St, the Younger,. ii. 307 Simnel, Lambert, pretender to the throne, Simnel-bread, i. 337, 788 i. 119 --- cakes, account of- story of their origin, i. 336, 337 Simon, St, martyr,
Stock, St,. • i. 639 the Canaanite, St, ii. 506 Simplicius, St, two faints of this name, i. 320; ii. 138 Simpson, Thomas, ii. 239 Sina, St, ii. 565 Sinclair, Sir John, his New- year's visit to Lord Mel- ville, i. 30; unsuccessful attempt of, to introduce nightingales into Scot- land, 515; his connec- tion with the author of Baron Munchausen, ii. 85, 86; anecdote of his tutor, John Logan, . Sindulphus, St, Singh, Runjeet, Sion House,
Sismondi, J. C. L. de, : Sisoes, or Sisoy, St, 'Sisters, the two unknown,' a poem, i. 228 Sistine Chapel, the Miserere in, during the Holy Week- i. 407 Sivan, or Sigirannus, St, ii. 655 Sixtus, or Xystus II., Pope- ii. 180 i. 423 ii. 210 V., Pope, ii. 687; notice of, Sixtus, St, Skating, i. 20; amusement of, described, 138-140; primitive style of, ii. 787 Skelton, John, poet-laur- eate, i. 472, 800; notice of, 800, 801 Skene, Mr, of Rubislaw i. 190 and note. Skinker, Tanakin, a pig- faced lady,. ii. 255, 256 Skull, portion of a human, reduced to powder, pre- scribed as medicine,
Captain John, i. 800 , Charlotte, ii. 506; notice of, . Smith, Dr' Adam, i. 738; Lord Kenyon's views on doctrines of, Smith, Dr John Pye, . i. 678 Southwood, ii.
676; friend of Bentham, i. 742 Smith, Horace,
, James, agriculturist- i. 764 , James, comic poet- i. 58, 241
Rev. Sydney, i. 284; his description of Dr Parr, 115, 116; notice of, 286, 287; his declaration regarding Francis Horner- Smith, Sir J. E.,.
i. 432; ii. 205 Thomas Assheton, great fox-hunter, Smith, William, . Smithfield,
discovery of remains of martyrs at, i. 371; an Arian heretic burned at, in reign of James I., 388; Barthol- omew Fair in, ii. 263-267 Smoking, prohibition of, to schoolmasters, . i. 168 Smollett, Tobias, ii. 476; his Humphry Clinker, depreciated by Walpole, i. 165 Smugglers, desperate char- acter of the Sussex, i. 246 Smyth, Admiral William, i. 141 --, Dr, extraordinary attack by, on Dr Jenner, i. 628 Smyth, Sir William, Crom- well's courtesy to, i. 617 Smyth, William, historical writer, i. 821 i. 198 ii. 738
Snails, decoction of, recom- mended for a cough, Snakes. See Serpents. Snapdragon, sport of, .
Soane, Sir John, ii. 307;
notice of, .
Sobieski. See John.
Sociable Club, Manchester, i. 197 Social life, glimpses of, in 17th century, from Herefordshire lady's account-book, i. 674-676; picture of, in reign of Charles II., presented by Pepys, 682; of former times, as exhibited in the London parks, 759-764 Socialism, system of, pro-
Pennant, Somers, Lord Chancellor- i. 331, 555 Will, jester to Henry VIII., i. 180, 183 Somerset, Earl and Coun- tess of, their participation in murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 580, 581 Somerset, Edmund Beau- fort, Duke of, prophecy regarding his death, i. 399 Somerset, Seymour, Duke of, heraldic satire on, i. 793 Somerset, the Proud Duke of, i. 71 and note Somerset House, London, reconstructed by Sir Wil- liam Chambers, i. 342 Somerton Castle, captivity of King John of France in, i. 488, 489 Somerville, Mrs, her record of English earthquakes-
Spanish lady, story and ballad of a, ii. 141, 142 Spectator, amusing paper in the, on the subject of lotteries, i. 94; reference to, 132; history of, 318, 319; quoted, Spectre-battle,
ii. 168 i. 154 ii. 433-436
ii. 132 ii. 579 i. 754 ii. 239
-dogs, superstitions regarding, Speed, John, Speke, Captain, Spelman, Sir Henry, Spence, Joseph, Spencer, John Charles, third Earl, i. 701; con- nection between his family and Washington's, 285 Spencer, Lord, copy of Eschylus bound for, by Payne, ii. 597 Spencer, Sir John, marri- age of his daughter Eliza to Lord Compton, i. 444 Spenser, Edmund, i. 121; resemblance of his lan- guage to Scottish dialect, 57; his allusion to the nursery tale of 'Mr Fox,' 291; quoted; 565, 571 ii. 75 i. 124
Sophia Charlotte, queen of Prussia,
Sophia Dorothea, consort of
Spiders and their webs, al- leged therapeutic efficacy
of, Spiller's Head,' the, cele- brated tavern, . ii. 498 Spindle. See Distaff. Spinning, universality of, as a female employment in former times, i. 68, 69 Spinning-wheel, history of the,
Soul, or passing-bell, i. 548, 549 -- theory of its pre-
existence considered, i. 269; legendary belief of its power to dissever itself from the body, Soult, Marshal, i. 435; ii. 619; sale of his pictures, i. 658 South, Dr Robert, ii. 33 -sea bubble, i. 146-149 Southcott, Joanna, ii. 772; Sharp the engraver's im- plicit faith in, 124; notice of, 773, 774 Southcott, John, petition of, to Charles II., i. 700 Southern, Thomas, . i. 681 Southey, Caroline Anne, ii. 89 -, Robert, i. 401; ii. 205; his remarks on theory of pre-existence, 269; his relations with John Murray, 823; con- trast between, and Cole- ridge, ii. 480 Southwell, Robert, i. 280 Sovereign, presentation of New-year's gifts to the, and his officers, i. 31-33 Sowens, old Scottish dish, i. 600 Spain, final overthrow of
the Moors in, i. 39; acces- sion of a Bourbon prince to the throne of, 510; no- tice of St James, her
Spinoza, Benedict de,. Spinster, origin of the term, i. 68; use of the term in legal phraseology, 69 Spiridion, St, ii. 693 Spirit-world, the, reference to, in connection with Swedenborg, Spohr, Louis, Sponsor, application to Prince Albert to stand, i. 168 Sporting nomenclature, old- i. 554 Sports, field, of our ancestors- ii. 211-213 Sportsmen, tender-hearted- ness in, i. 734, 735 Spotted boy, the, exhibited at Bartholomew Fair- ii. 267, and note Spottiswood, Archbishop, ii. 619; his account of Scott the faster, i. 552, 553 Sprat, Bishop Thomas, i. 658 Spring Garden, a resort of the Londoners in old times, . i. 690, 759, 760 Springs, medicinal, under the patronage of St Chad- i. 321 Spurs, earning the, by a knight, i. 782 and note; and spur-money, ii. 541, 542 Spurzheim, Dr Johann Gaspar, ii. 791 Spy, General Putnam's treatment of a,. ii. 187
74, 75 Stamford, bull-running at ii. 574-576 'Stang, riding the,' ii. 510, 511 Stanhope, Charles, Earl, democratic peer, i. 725; notice of, ii. 164, 165 Stanhope, Charles, under- hand proceedings of, in reference to South-sea scheme, i. 148 Stanhope, Dr George, i. 333, 387 James, first Earl of, i. 224; singular death of- 148, 224 Stanhope, Lady Hester- i. 810; ii. 165 Philip Henry, Earl, his History of Eng- land,. i. 71 Stanhope, Sir William, i 608; Pope's garden de- stroyed by, i. 704 Stanislas Kostka, St,. ii. 573 Stanislaus I. of Poland, i. 289 Poniatowski, last
king of Poland, Stanislaus, St, bishop of
Cracow, Stanley, Colonel,
of treasure at,
Stanton-Harcourt, melan-
choly accident near man- sion of, ii. 148, 149 Staples' Inn, old houses at- ii. 307 Star Chamber, victims of the, in reign of Charles I., i. 831; its prosecution of Lilburne, ii. 281, 282 'Star-spangled banner,' supposed to be derived from Washington's shield- i. 286 Starch, yellow, invented by Mrs Turner, ii. 581 Stars, shooting or falling- ii. 576, 577 States-general of France, opening of, in 1789, i. 597, 598 Statesman, the, contrasted with the doctrinaire, ii. 189 Stationer, original import of the term, ii. 773 Stationers' Company, their almanacs-
i. 13, 14; ii. 716, 717 Statues, some Stuart, ii. 484, 485 Statute Fairs, i. 644, 645 Staunton, Sir G. T.. ii. 196 Steam, first use of, in print- ing, ii. 632, 633 Steam-engine, projected by Marquis of Worcester, i. 471 Steamers, first, in Britain- ii. 10, 11, 220 Steele, Sir Richard, i. 318, 319; ii. 296; quoted, i. 78 Steevens, Dr and Miss, philanthropists, ii. 257
Stephen, St, king of Hun- gary,. Stephen, St, pope and martyr, . ii. 159 Stephen, St, the Invention of, ii. 164
Stephen, Sir James, . ii. 335 the Younger, St, ii. 627 Stephens, James Francis, ii. 349 Stephenson, George, i. 756; ii. 206; railway carried by, over Chat Moss, i. 48; safety-lamp invented by, 86 Stephenson, Robert, ii. 436; his tubular bridge over the Menai Straits, i. 333, 334; his locomotive, the Rocket, ii. 347, 348; notice
Stiffening of a corpse, super-
stition regarding,
Stilicho, Flavius,. . ii. 251 Stillingfleet, Benjamin, ii. 698 Bishop Edward- i. 427, 521 Stobaeus, Dr, early friend i. 676 of Linnæus, Stockden, victualler in Grub i. 395 Street, murder of Stockholm, curious incident related of fire at, in con- nection with Swedenborg- 1. 187 Stockings, silk, presented to Queen Elizabeth, i. 564 32; early history of, Stockport, custom at gram- mar-school of, i. 233; practical jest of a farmer ii. 627 Stocks market, site of the present Mansion House, i. 504; statue of Charles ii. 484, 435 II., in, Stocks, punishment of the-
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