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at Newport. la 1775 lie made hU way to Lon- 

 don, where he led for two years a Bohemian life ; 

 but his talent was recognised l>y his countryman, 

 Benjamin \Ve-t, who took him into hi- family, and 

 noon he became a fashionable portrait p.iintei. 

 In 1702, in the fullness of his powers and fiunr. In- 

 returned to America, ami paint. -il portraitx of 

 Washington, Jefferson, Madison, John Adams, and 

 many of the distinguished men of the period, and 

 was at work on a portrait of John O,uincy Adams 

 (afterwards finished by Sully) when he died at 

 Boston, 27th July 1828. See a Life by G. C. 

 Mason (New York", 1879). 



Stuart, JOHN, LL.D. (1813-77), a Scottish 

 antiquary, for twenty four years attached to the 

 Register House. His principal works were The 

 Xi-ulptured Stone* of Scotland (2 vols. 1856-67) 

 and Tin- Book of Deer (see DEER). He contributed 

 largely to the Proceeding* of the Scottish Society 

 of Antiquaries, of which he was secretary. 



Stuart, MOSES, American divine and author, 

 was lorn at Wilton, Connecticut, in 1780, and i 

 educated at Yale, where he remained for some j 

 time as a tutor. He began the study of law, but 

 abandoned it for theology, was ordained as pastor 

 of a Congregational church at New Haven in 1806, 

 and in 1810 was appointed professor of Sacred 

 Literature at Andover, a position he filled till 1848. 

 During this period he published Hebrew grammars 

 without (1813) and with points (1821), a transla- 

 tion of Winer's Greek grammar, commentaries on 

 Hebrews, Romans, the Apocalypse, Daniel, Eccle- 

 niastes, and Proverbs ; Hebrew Chrestomathy 

 (1H29-30); Essays on Future Punishment (1830) 

 and on Christian Baptism (1833); Hintt on the 

 Interpretation of Prophecy ( 1842) ; Contcifnrr. nn/l 

 the Conttitution (1850) ; and numerous translations 

 am) letters. He died January 4, 1852. 



Stubbes, JOHN, was born about 1541, had his 

 education at Corpus Christ! College, Cambridge, 

 and Lincoln's Inn, and died about 1600. He wrote 

 an answer to Cardinal Allen's Defence of the Kni/- 

 lisk Catholics, but is known bv The Discoverie 

 of a Gaping Gulf, wherein England is like to be 

 twallowed up by another French Marriage (1579), 

 against the marriage of Elizabeth with the Duke 

 of Aniou. For his patriotism both himself and 

 Page his printer had their right hands struck oil'. 

 PHILIP STUBBES, his near kinsman, was author 

 of the AnatomieofAbiiscs(\!>83): conteyning a Dis- 

 coverie or Briefe Siimmarie of such Notable Vices 

 and Imperfections as now raigne in many Christian 

 countreyes of the World : but especialie in a very 

 famous Ilande called Ailgna : Together with most 

 fearful Examples of Gods Judgementes executed 

 upon the wicked for the same as well in Ailgna of 

 late, as in other places elsewhere. Wood tells us 

 that he was ' a most rigid Calvinist, a bitter enemy 

 to popery, and a great corrector of the vices and 

 abuses of hU time ; and though not in sacred 

 orders, yet the books he wrote related to divinity 

 and morality.' A second part of his book appeared 

 the same year (1583). In form it is a dialogue 

 between Philoponus and Spudeus ; the sulmtance 

 is a vehement denunciation of the luxury of the 

 times, valuable in the highest degree to us for the 

 liu'ht it throws on the dress and habits of the age of 

 Shakespeare. Stubbes is, himself, really a bigoted 

 and splenetic old fool, ami he inveighs with curious 

 passion against all extravagances of dress ' the 

 great ruffs, puffed out doublet* of the men ; the 

 curling, frizzling, and crisping of the hair of the 

 women ; their great ruffs and neckerrhers of hoi- 

 land, luwne, cameriok, and such cloth, lest they 

 should fall down, smeared and smirched in the 

 devil's li|iior starch." In his blindness he saps 

 the very foundation* of morality by pouring out 



his wrath alike on the mere extravagance* ol 

 fashion and upon breaches of the weightier matters 

 of the law. The work was reprinted by 

 \V. It. 1). 1). Turnbull in 1S36, and bv K. J. 

 K limit all in the New Shakespeare Society s issues 

 (1879, 1882). 



Stiihhs. \VIII.I\M. historian, was Inrn at 

 Knanwborough, '21st June IN-.if>, and was educated 

 at Kipon grammar-school and Christ Church, 

 Oxford, graduating with a classical first-class in 

 1848. He was at once elected to a fellowship at 

 Trinity College, took orders, and became vicar of 

 Navestock, Essex, in 1850. He acted as diocesan 

 inspector of schools from 1860 till 1866, when he 

 was appointed refills professor of Modern History 

 at Oxford, with the year following a fellowship 

 at Oriel. He was apiiointod librarian t<> Arch 

 bishop Longley at Lambeth in 1862. a curator of 

 the Bodleian in 1868, rector of Chohlerton, Wilt- 

 shire, in 1875, and canon residentiary of St Paul's 

 in 1S79. He wan consecrated Bishop of Chester in 

 1884, and translated to the see of Oxford in 1889. 

 Bishop Still.].-'-, historical work is marked by VHM. 

 learning and rare impartiality and sagacity. The 

 reader may follow him with complete confidence, 

 and the only thing left to desiderate is a more 

 supple and expressive style. Of his many works 

 the chief are lieifijttrum Sacrum . I <//<' mi inn: 

 an attempt to exhibit the course of Kpiscopal sin-- 

 cession in England (1858); Mosheim's Institute* 

 of Ecclesiastical History, thoroughly revised and 

 brought down to the present time (3 vols. 1863); 

 Select Charters and other Illustrations of English 

 Constitutional History, from the earliest period to 

 the reign of Edward I. (1870); the altogether 

 invaluable Constitutional History of J-.'/n/lnin/ in its 

 Origin and Development down to the accession of 

 the House of Tudor (3 vols. 1874-78) ; The Early 

 Plantagenets in ' Epochs of Modern History ' ( 1876) ; 

 and Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Mediaeval 

 and Modern History (1886). 



Besides these he baa edited, in the Record) publications, 

 of the reign of Richard I., the Ilinerarium and EpittoUt 

 Cantuarenie* (2 vols. 1864-65); Benedict of Peter- 

 borough's Oetta of Henry II. and Richard I. (2 vols. 

 18C7) ; Roger de Hovedon'a Chronicle ( 4 vols. 1868-71); 

 The Historical Colltctiont of Walter of Coventry ( 2 voU. 

 1872-73); it emorials of Saint Dunstan (1874) ; the His- 

 torical Work* of Matter faljji de Diceto (2 voU. 1876) ; 

 the Historical Works of Gcrvase of Canterbury, covering 

 the reigns of Stephen, Henry II., and Richard I. (2 vol*. 

 1879-80) ; Chronicle* of the Reigns of Kdward I. and 

 Edward II. ( 2 vols. 1882-88 ) ; The Five Books of William 

 of Malmesbury De Sriium Oestis Antjloriim, and the 

 Three Books of his Historica Nottlhf (2 vols. 1887-89). 

 Bishop Stubbs received honorary degrees from Cambridge, 

 Edinburgh, and Dublin, and is a corresponding member of 

 the Institute of France, and other learned societies of 

 Massachusetts, Denmark, Gottingen, KieflT, &c. He began 

 with the Rer A. \V. Haddan the publication of a collec- 

 tion of Council* and 'Kcrlniiittical Document* relating to 

 Great Britain and Ireland, based on the Concilia of 

 Spehnan and Wilkins (3 vols. 1869-78). 



Stucco, a term applied to work in plaster of 

 Paris (sometimes mixed with other ingredients) 

 used for coating walls or making casts of figures. 

 See ovi'st-M, PLASTERING, CAST. 



Stud-book, a l>ook containing the pedigrees of 

 famous animals, especially horses. That for race- 

 horses, edited by the officials of the Jockey Club, 

 dates from 180ft, There are stud-liooks for Clydes- 

 dale horses, cattle, &c., and even separate ones for 

 collies, fox-terriers, St Bernard dogs, &c. 



Stuffing. See TAXIDERMY. 



StnhlwrlHsrnbiire ( Hung. Sztkes Fehervdr, 

 Lat. Alba llegia), a royal free town of Hungary, 

 and seat of a bishop, lies in a swampy plain, .'!!! 

 miles SW. of Budapest Here from 1027 to 1527 the 



