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Sports, Book of, inquired after, v. 347. 

 Sprat (Bishop), birth-place, x. 84. 

 Sprigge (Joshua), " Anglia Rediviva," a suggested re- 

 print, vii. 203. 

 Spring, shoot, and sprout, vii. 448. 

 Spring, its harbingers, xi. 383; xii. 254. 331. 412. 

 Spring Gardens, ii. 404. 

 Spur money, i. 373, 374. 462. 494. 

 Spur Sunday, vi. 242. 329; viii. 209. 

 Spars, did the Orientals wear them? v. 467. " 

 Spy Wednesday, its meaning, v. 511. 620. 

 Squaring the circle, xii. 57. 114. 306. 363. 

 Staal (Madame de), ix. 451. 546; x. 55. 

 Stackhouse (Rev. Thomas), x. 484. 

 Stada (Josias Ibach), artist, i. 452; ii. 27. 

 Stafford (William), noticed, vi. 101. 

 Staffordshire brasses, xi. 499 ; giant (Walter Parsons), 

 ii. 135. 314; knot, viii. 220. 454; local rhymes, xi. 

 74; sayings, xii. 202. 

 Stag in Dorsetshire, xi. 74. 349. 495. 

 Stago-coaehes, their speed, viii. 439. 600. 

 Stainforth family, xii. 125. 173. 

 Staircases, spiral wooden, xi. 365. 433. 

 Stallenge queries, iv. 315. 

 Stamping on current coinage, \u. 180. 

 Stanbridge earls, iii. 518. 

 Stancliffe (Dr.), noticed, xi. 27. 



Standard-bearer in Scotland, v. 609; vi. 158. 300. 392. 

 Standard newspaper, original motto, x. 151. 

 Standards of the Anglo-Saxons, devices on, i. 216. 284. 

 Standfast (Richard), " Cordial Comforts," iii. 143. 192. 



285. 

 Standing at the Lord's Prayer, ix. 127. 257. 567. 

 Standing whilst the Gospel is read, ii. 246. 285. 349. 



397. 

 Stanedge Pole, Hallamshire, iii. 390; iv. 123. 

 Stanhope (Charles Earl), versatility of talent, viii. 9. 



13.5. 

 Stanhope family. See Henry Earl of Wotton. 

 Stanhope (Henry Lord), viii. 281. 563. See Wotton. 



Stanislaus Augustus II., his wife, vi. 341. 589. 



Stanley ; " Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley," vii. 158. 



Stanley (Sir Wm.), date of his execution, v. 321; mo- 

 nument at Malmes, xii. 448. 



Stanley (Thomas), bishop of Man, vi. 130; vii. 209. 



Stanley (Thomas), ejected minister, vii. 83. 



Stanleys of the Isle of Man, x. 325. 



Stanser (Robert), bishop of Nova Scotia, vi. 149. 425; 

 vii. 263. 



Stanton Drew, its tradition, iv. 3. 



Stanton Moor, iv. 274. 390. 



Stanyan (Temple), i. 382. 460. 479. 



Star and Garter, Kirkstall, ix. 324. 



Star of Bethlehem, iv. 6; ix. 103. 



Star of Bethlehem, a flower, x. 508. 



*' Star of the Twilight Grey," Jacobite lyric, x. 445. 



Starbaarts, or storbating, x. 385; xi. 236. 



Starkey (Oliver), knight of Malta, xi. 180. 



Stars, mythology of, iii. 23. 70. 155. 508. 



Stars, the flowers of heaven, iv. 22; vii. 151. 341. 513; 

 viii. 158. 346; x. 253. 494. 530. 



Starvation, an Americanism, ix. 54. 151; xi. 440. 



State Paper Office, Indices to its documents, i. 174; 

 hours of admission, xi. 19; its limited accessibility, 



iii. 198; xii. 282; removal to the New Record Office, 

 vi. 473; x. 455. 



State used for city, viii. 409. 



Statfolds of Warwickshire, xi. 363. 434. 



Stationers' Company and Almanac, ix. 104; registers, 



i. 84. 

 Statistics, early, i. 330. 441—443. 

 Statistics of all Christians, iv. 382. 445. 

 Statues represented on coins, vi. 485 ; vii. 45. 

 " StatuU Exoniaj," vi. 198. 329. 

 Statute of limitations abroad, iv. 256; v. 546. 

 Statute-sessions and fairs. See Sittings. 

 Staughton, Great, Hunts, constables' account, x. 61. 

 Steam power, its inventor, iii. 23. 

 Steamers and railways, x. 221. 

 " Steaming," as used by Thomson, vii. 67. 

 Stearne (John), "Confirmation of Witchcraft," v. 416. 



621. 

 Steel-bars, how hardened, vii. 65. 

 Steele (Eliza), xi. 408; xii. 12. 154. 

 Steele (Lord Chancellor), pedigree, viii. 220. 

 Steele (Sir Richard), and the Ladies' Library, xi. 408 ; 



xii. 12; burial-place, ii. 375. 414. 430. 

 Steevens (George), i. 212; ii. 476; iii. 109. 119. 230. 



286; vi. 412. 531; vii. 119. 

 Stella, was she Swift's sister ? iii. 450; iv. 110. 100. 

 Stephen (King), his crown, xi. 379. 

 Stephen (Mrs. Freeman), xii. 64. 

 Stephens (Edward), noticed, viii. 588. 

 Stephens (George), lectures on Chaucer, v. 69. 

 Stephens (Mrs. Joanna), her nostrum, xii. 366. 

 Stephens (Rev. Wm.), his Sermons, i. 118. 334; ii. 

 451. 



Stephen's (St.) church, Walbrook, iv. 267. 



Stephen's (St.) day and Riley's Hoveden, viii. 637 ; ix. 

 113. 



Stepony ale, ii. 267. 346 ; iii. 449. 



-Ster, the termination, vi. 409. 568. 



Sterling, its derivation, i. 384. 411. 



Sterne (Laurence), at Sutton on the Forest, v. 409 ; in 

 Paris, 105. 188. 254 ; '' Drummer's Letter," viii. 

 153; " Koran," i. 216.418. 



Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms, x. 366. 



Sterry (Peter), his Works, iii. 38. 434; vii. 388. 



Stevens (Geo. Alex.), iv. 196. 277. 



Stevens (Capt. John), noticed, ii. 359 ; iii. 306. 



Stevens (William), treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty, 

 iii. 286. 



Steward, Lord High, x. 45. 



Steward, or Stewart, family of Bristol, i. 335. 4O.0. 



Stewart (Ann), noticed, v. 345. 



Stewart (Col.), his books burnt, xi. 261. 



Stewart (C. J.), his Catalogue of Biblical Literature; 

 i. 78. 



Stewart (Dugald), his books burnt, xi. 261. 



Stewart (Lady Ai-abella), mai-riuge, vi. 555. 



Stewarts of Holland, vii. 66. 



Steyne, its meaning, ii. 71. 108. 



Stick supplanting stop, iii. 278. 



Stickle, its meaning, iv. 209 ; v. 235. 



Still-born children, superstition respecting, v. 77. 



Stillingfleet (Bp. Edward), " The Sufferings of Chris%" 

 iv. 274. 392; liis library, viii. 389. 



Stilts used by the Irish, v. 508. 



