Part 92

Sheriffmuir, battle of, vii. 183

Sheriffs, their position under William I., i. 185; appointment regulated by Provisions of Oxford, ii. 61; functions in the shire-court, 149; disqualified from serving in Parliament, 300

Ship-money, v. 317; Laud's developement of, 318; Hampden's resistance to, 323; its legality asserted by the judges, ib.; trial of Hampden's case, 324, 330; judgement on, 331; declared illegal, 352

Shires, i. 185; restriction of franchise in, iii. 101, 102; the six, of York, i. 295

Shire-court. See County Court

Shire-reeves, i. 131

Shirley, James, v. 303

Shore, Jane, iii. 117

Shrewsbury (Pengwern), i. 98; castle at, 168; reduced by Llewelyn ap Jorwerth, ii. 55; Parliament at, 121, 371; battle of, iii. 14; Charles I. at, vi. 2

Shrewsbury, John Talbot, first Earl of (see Talbot), iii. 70, 71

Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, twelfth Earl and first Duke of, vii. 23, 28; signs the invitation to William, 35; sends him funds, 37; Secretary of State, 67; negotiates with James, 77; member of the Junto, 88; President of the Council, 146

Shropshire ravaged by the Welsh, iii. 19

Sicily, crown of, offered to Edmund of England, ii. 59; ceded to Savoy, vii. 142, 186; conquered by Spain, 187

Sidmouth, Henry Addington, first Viscount (see Addington), viii. 174, 179, 183

Sidney, Algernon, supports the Independents, vi. 45; relations with Lewis XIV., 229, 298; holds meetings with Monmouth, etc., 336; beheaded, 337; his attainder reversed, vii. 66

Sidney, Sir Henry, iv. 241

Sidney, Sir Philip, v. 6, 7, 11, 12

Sikhs, the, vii. 234

Simeon of Durham, i. 6, 173, 243

Simnel, Lambert, iii. 176

Siward, Earl of Northumbria, i. 150, 152, 153

Sixtus V., Pope, iv. 353

Skeffington, Lord Deputy in Ireland, iii. 328

Skelton, John, iii. 273; iv. 43

Slanning, Sir Nicholas, vi. 6

Slave-trade at Bristol, i. 250; negro, its beginning, iv. 283; in the eighteenth century, viii. 52; proposals for its abolition, ib., 79; abolished, 178, 179

Slavery in Old England, i. 16, 17; dies out, 321, 322

Sluys, sea-fight off, ii. 228