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For letters of adminiftration, without a will annexed, 

 to be granted in England, and alfo confirmation and inven- 

 tory in Scotland, the duties are as follow : 



From 



1,000,000 and upwards 



For an account of legacies and fucceffions, as under the 

 article Receipt, Schedule, part iii. with the following 

 alteration agreeably to 55 Geo. III. c. 184 ; infertin^ in- 

 ftead of loth Oftober 1808, the 31ft day of Auijull 

 1815; infertmg alfo in col. 2. hue 13 from the bottom. 



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9 & 10 Will. c. 25.) To this office belong a receirer- 

 general, a comptroller, a fecretary, and a number of clerks, 

 &c. &c. 



STAMPALIA, or Stampal^ea, in Geography, for- 

 merly AflypaUa, properly fignifying the ancient city, and 

 called alfo Pyrrha, P'llca, and at length Theon Traleza, i. e. 

 the table of the gods, becaufe its foil is fertile, and it is 

 almoft every where enamelled with flowers, an ifland of the 

 Archipelago, which, in the time of Phny, was an independent 

 country, and where Achilles had a temple, and that fort of 

 worrtiip that was paid to valour, contributed to maintain 

 among its inhabitants the energy uecelTary for people who 

 are not wiUing to fubmit to the yoke of a conqueror. From 

 the irregular form of this ifland, it might be called the " In- 

 dented Ifland ;" its fliores prefenting a variety of points, or 

 finuofities, that form fo many coves and bays fit for the an- 

 chorage of fliips or boats, though we can fcarcely reckon 

 more than two harbours, the one to the foulh, the 

 other to the north. It is about fix leagues in length, and 

 only two in its grcateft breadth ; it is not very lofty, nor 

 has it any high mountains that can be difcovered at a great 

 dillance. Its foil, a= we have already faid, is fertile, being 

 of that kind which is obferved on plains and hills, and which 

 does not extend to the tops of fteep mountains. Stampalia 

 is reckoned one of the mod fertile iflands of the Archi- 

 pelago : its inhabitants experience the mildnefs of the 

 chmate and the goodnefs of the foil ; and in thefe rcfpefts 

 they differ in charafter from the rough iflanders of Calamo 

 and Lero, which are rugged countries. Its fertility, how- 

 ever, is checked by the empire of the Turks, to which it is 

 fubjeft ; and the opprefllve exaftions to which its inhabitants 

 are compelled to fubmit : the fliores abound with a great 

 variety of fifli. N. lat. 36^ 40'. E. long. 26^ 16'. 



STAMPE, or Temp£, in Cojnm^rf^, a fmall copper coia 

 in the Weft India iflands. In the Englifli Leeward iflands 

 I ftampe = li dog — z^d. Leeward currency, and 8 dogs 

 or 4 ftampes = i bit = ^d. of the fame currency ; the 

 dollar in this currency being reckoned at gs. In the French 

 iflands, the noir or dog is = 2 fols 6 deniers = i\d. Leeward 

 currency, and the tempe or ftampe = 3 fols 9 deniers = 2\d. 

 Leeward currency. 



STAMPERS and Stamping, in Coinage. See Com 

 and CoiKAGE. 



STAMPING-Mill, or Knochlng-Mtll, an engine ufed 

 in the tin-works to bruife the ore fmall. 



STAMPS, in Metallurgy, a fort of large peftles lifted 

 up by water-wheels, and ferving to beat to powder the ore*, 

 and refufe of ores of metals. 



STAMSLO, in Geography, a town of Hungary; 15 

 miles N.E. of Gros Wardein. 



STAMWOOD, in /Igruulture, a term applied to the 

 roots of trees grubbed up. Any forts of root-wood are fo 

 termed in different fituations and places. 



STANCH, or Staunch, a name given by the country 

 people of Northamptonfliire, and fome other counties, to 

 a fpecies of foffile called felenites, from its fuppofed virtue 

 in ftopping fluxes of blood. See Pachodecarhombis. 



STANCHING of Blood, the ftopping of blood in 

 cafes of wounds in horfes or other animals. This is moftly 



after " deceafed." or the father or m''otVer: oTanVwi phL ^othe^i^ V k'"' °^ ^°f^"^ °^ ""' '"'^ '°''' 'P' 

 anceftor of the deceafed ; inftead of 2/. 10.. - J/, in P"'A'° 5^= P^^^ which are wounded. 



__ ._. .3/. 



ftead of 4/. — 5/., and inftead of 5/. — 61. 



STAMP-Officr, an ofEce under the diredion of fix com- 

 miflioners, who are empowered to fubftitute inferior officers 

 for the management of the ftamp-duties. (5 Will, cap 21 



STANCHIO, or Stancho, in Geography, an ifland 

 in the Grecian Archipelago, anciently known by the name 

 of Cos (which fee), and by fome modern geographers 

 ^n J " ■'"^"S°-" Of 'he ancient magnificence of this 

 illand no traces now remain. The modern town of Stancho 



