Part 95

Stanley, Thomas, Lord, iii. 171, 172

Stanley, Sir William, iii. 172

Staple, Gild of the, ii. 304; reform of, under Richard II., 355

Star-Chamber, Court of, i. 256; ii. 112; iii. 178; regulates the Press, iv. 343; developement under Charles I., v. 278; Laud's use of, 329; its civil jurisdiction abolished by Long Parliament, 363

States-General, the French, viii. 83; become a National Assembly, 86

Statutes substituted for Ordinances, ii. 298, 299; Petitions changed into, iii. 90; of Apparel, 65; of Appeals, 302; of Occasional Conformity, vii. 123; repealed, 184: Conventicle, vi. 220; Corporation, 207; Declaratory, vii. 338; of Economical Reform, viii. 64. 76; of First-fruits, iii. 302, 304; Five Mile, vi. 229; of Grace, vii. 69; Habeas Corpus, vi. 305, 306; suspended, vii. 184; viii. 105, 113; of Heresy, iii. 4, 5; repealed, iv. 61; re-enacted, 89; of Indemnity and Oblivion, vi. 194, 196, 204; of Kilkenny, ii. 377; of Labourers, 255; attempts to enforce, 289, 313; demand for their repeal, iii. 65; of Libel, viii. 92; of Liveries, iii. 118, 177; of Maintenance, ii. 355; iii. 105; of Merchants, ii. 122; Mutiny, vii. 61, 62; of Mortmain, ii. 118, 119; Navigation, vi. 86; vii. 310; Poor Laws, iv. 276, 277; Poynings', iii. 181; repealed, viii. 37, 39; of Præmunire, ii. 274, 355; of Provisors, 273, 275, 355; "Quia Emptores," 124, 151; "de Religiosis," 118; of Rights, vii. 60; Schism, 143; repealed, 184; of Security, 129; Septennial, 185; of Settlement, 103, 127; Stamp, 326, 327; American resistance to, 330; Pitt and Shelburne demand its repeal, 331; repealed, 338; of Succession, iii. 317; iv. 45, 67; of Supremacy, iii. 305; iv. 157; Test, iv. 215, 273, 308; vi. 273; James II.'s endeavours to procure its repeal, vii. 22, 23; Toleration, 64; of Treason, ii. 292; iii. 314, 319; Triennial, v. 352; vii. 88; of Union with Scotland, 128; of Union with Ireland, viii. 139; of Uniformity, iv. 159; vi. 208; of Uses, ii. 355; of Wales, 121; of Westminster, the first, 103; second, 122; third, 124; of Winchester, 122; against Witchcraft, v. 105, 106

Steam-engine, invention of the, viii. 57-59

Steel Yard, the, iv. 282

Steele, Richard, vii. 158

Steinkirk, battle of, vii. 79

Stephen of Blois, i. 214; chosen king, 215; crowned, 216; his charter, ib.; revolts against him, 216, 217; quarrel with the Church, 218, 219; struggle with Matilda, 219, 220; proposes to crown his son, 226; treaty with Henry, 227; death, 228

Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 161, 187

Stillingfleet, Edmund, vi. 252; vii. 19

Stirling, battle of, ii. 168; surrenders to Edward, 171; invested by Bruce, 191; Lords of the Congregation muster at, iv. 245

Stoke, battle of, iii. 176

Stokes, Peter, ii. 340

Stow, battle of, vi. 42

Stowe's Chronicle, v. 4

Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of (see Wentworth), his war policy, v. 340-342; impeached, 350; trial, 356; attainder, 357; death, 361

Stralsund, siege of, v. 274

Strassburg seized by Lewis XIV., vi. 335

Stratford-on-Avon, Shakspere's home at, v. 28, 41, 46

Stratford-le-Bow, Protestant martyrs at, iv. 144

Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 232

Strathclyde, its struggle with Æthelfrith, i. 60; submits to Eadward the Elder, 119

Streoneshealh. See Whitby

Strickland, member of Parliament in 1571, iv. 292

Strode, one of the "five members," v. 373