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GENERAL INDEX. 



Sheriff, oiEce of High, xii. 405. 



Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire, vii. 



573. 631. 

 Sherlock (Dean), Sermon to redeemed slaves, xl. 466; 



his Trinitarian controversy, vii. 502; noticed, viii. 



245. 

 Shew family, xi. 385. 433. 

 Shewri-while, a mountain spirit, iii. 29. 

 ♦' Shift Shifted," by Isaac Dalton, vi. 315. 374. 

 Shig-shag day, xii. 100. 

 Shillibeer (Mr.), originator of omnibuses, ii. 215; xi. 



281. 

 Shilling, its etymology, ii. 348. 

 Shillings and sixpences of George III., iii. 275. 310. 



502. 

 Ship, as a termination, iv. 153. 261. 394. 

 Ships, christening, x. 6. 99. 272. 

 Shipmoney, satirical verses on, iv. 437. 

 Ship's painter, its derivation, vii. 178. 391. 507. 

 Shipman (Sir Abraham), vi. 360. 419. 

 Shippen family, ix. 147. 

 Shipster, its meaning,!. 216. 251. 339. 356; ii. 30. 



91. 

 Shipton (Mother), noticed, v. 419. 

 Shipwrecks and disasters at sea, xi. 144. 

 Shirley (Henry), inquired after, xii. 26. 

 Shirt collar, " Piccadilly," viii. 467. 

 Shob, or shub, a Kentish word, vii. 65. 

 Shoemakers' recitation on Oct. 25th, viii. 619. 

 Shoes thrown for luck at weddings, i. 468; ii. 196; 



V. 413; vii. 182. 288. 411; viii. 377. 

 Shoreditch cross and painted window, vii. 38. 339; 



Fairchild lecture, xi. 66. 151; priory church of St. 



John, vii. 332. 

 Shorne (Master John), ii. 387. 450. 520. 

 " Short red, God red," vii. 500; viii. 182. 

 Short's Gardens, Drury Lane, i. 229. 

 Shotesham Park, portrait at, x. 465; xi. 131. 

 Shoulder knots, their origin, viii. 244. 

 Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), iii. 23. 45; xi. 184. 514; xii. 



54. 134. 395. 

 Shrew, its derivation, i. 381. 421. 445. 

 Shrewsbury School, its celebrity, i. 466. 

 Shropshire ballads, vi. 118. 299; ix. 320; monumental 



brasses, xi. 499 ; pedigrees, x. 67 ; value of land, iv. 



502. 

 Shrove Tuesday customs, ix. 65. 223. 299. 324. 



504; xi. 100. 297; pancakes, v. 491; rhymes, xi. 



2.39. 

 Shubshadun, xii. 59. 

 Shuck, the dog-fiend, i. 468. 

 Shuckburgh (Richard) and Charles I., i. 93. 338. 

 " Shunamitis Poema," its author, ii. 326. 380. 

 Shunt, a provincialism, iii. 204; v. 352. 450. 

 Shuttlecock at court, xi. 341. 

 Shylock, origin of the name, i. 184. 221. 

 Sibi, as used in mediaeval Latin, iv. 327. 392. 

 Sibthorp (Sir Christopher), ancestry, ii. 183. 

 Sibylle, or Sybille, xi. 445. 515; xii. 110. 191.248. 



414. 

 Sice, or size, its meaning, vi. 150. 611. 

 Sich house, vi. 363. 568; vii. 51. 

 Sicilian Code of Velhi, a literary forgery, vii. 86. 139. 

 Sicilian Vespers, ii. 166; iii. 484. 



Sickingen (Franz von), portrait, i. 336. 389 ; ii. 134. 

 219. 



Sickle, or shekel, used by Shakspeare, v. 277. 325. 



Siculus (Jacobus Pitefectus), ii. 424. 



Siddons (Mrs.), Kitty Clive's opinion of, xi. 42 i. 



Sides and angles, iii. 265. 



Sidinen, the British, iv. 83. 120. 424. 



Sidmoutli, ball of St. Nicholas' church, ix. 592. .005. 



Sidnam (Jonathan), inquired after, xi. 466. 



Sidney, as a Christian name, vii. 39. 318. 392. 



Sidney (Algernon), v. 318. 426. 447. 497. 51G; vi. 51. 



Sidney (Sir Philip) and Queen Elizabeth, x. 211; his 

 "Arcadia" copied by Sheridan, iv. 291; oak, iv. 402; 

 portrait by Paul Veronese, ii. 296. 



Sights and exhibitions, temp. James I., viii. 558. 



Sigmond (Dr.) noticed, xii. 288. 



Sigmond von Birken (Herr), vii. 16. 



Signatures, printers', when introduced, ii. 324. 



" Signe of the End," inquired after, i. 12. 



Signs of inns, &c. See Tavern Sif/ns. 



Si/cepo, in Luke i. 15, ix. 126. 



Silence of the sun or the light, x. 122. 171. 



Silent woman, origin of the sign, v. 468. 547. 



Silex and oxygen, vi. 604. 



" Silke Saugen," engraving, x. 266. 



Silkworm, a new one, xi. 264. 346. 472. 



Silo, Spanish granary, viii. 639 ; ix. 42. 



Simnionds (B.), noticed, ix. 397. 



Simnel cakes, iii. 506; iv. 212; ix. 322; x. &93, 



Simnel (Lambert), iii. 390. 506; iv. 212. 



Simon of Ghent, bishop of Salisbury, ii. 56. 140. 



Simon Sudbury, alias Tibold, Abp. of Canterbmy, v. 

 194; xi. 49. 



Simon (St.), representations, xi. 283. 354. 372. 



Simon (Thomas), medallist, xii. 27. 



Simpson (Thomas), geometer, i. 133. 



Sims (Dr.), President of Medical Society, xii. 288. 



Sims (R.), " Hand-Book to Library of the British Mu- 

 seum," viii. 501. 553. 653; ''Manual for Genealo- 

 gists and Antiquaries," xi. 234. 



Simson (Dr. Robert), editor of Euclid, i. 133. 



Sinai, its burning bush, ii. 491. 



Sinaitic inscriptions, iv. 332. 382. 458; v. 189. 



Sincere, its derivation, viii. 195. 328. 399. 507; xii. 

 292. 



Sinclair (Wm.), poem Uniomachia, x. 364. 431; xl. 

 314. 



Sin-eaters, iv. 211; vi. 390. 541. 



Singing-bread, its etymology, vi. 389. 471. 



Singleton (Mrs.), her longevity, viii. 113. 



Singular, its conventual use, ii. 374. 



Sinking fund, conflicting notes on, vi. 101. 184. 



Sinope, the siege of, x. 343. 



Sinope, its pronunciation, xii. 302. 352. 414. 45 '. 



"Sir," formerly prefixed to clergymen's names, i.*11. 

 122. 



Sirloin, its derivation, ii. 268. 331. 



Sissonne family. See Be Sissonne. 



Sitting cross-legged, ii. 407; iii. 230. 



Sitting during the Church Lessons, ii. 246. 28C ^'19. 

 397. 



Sittings, or statutes, legal courts, iii. 328. 396; iv. -Ii. 

 190. 



Sixtine editions of the Bible, xi. 403. 



