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dences in England: One was begun in Cavendish-square, 
London, but never finished; the other at Canons, was 
erected by the first architects in the kingdom. Italian artists 
were employed to finish the inside work, and the whole was 
executed in a style of the utmost elegance and splendour; 
the expance was estimated at not less than 250,000/. This 
mansion was taken down, and the materials sold by auction, 
in 1747. A small but neat villa was afterwards built in its 
place. Population 547. 
STANNARDSVILLE, a post township of the United 
States, in Orange county, Virginia ; 95 miles north-west of 
Richmond. 
STA'NNARY, s. [from stannum, Lat.; steam, tin, 
Cornish; stener, a tinner, pi. stennerion. Pryce, Corn. 
Gramml] A tin mine.—If by public law the mint were 
ordained to be only supplied by our stannaries, how cur¬ 
rently would they pass for more precious than silver mines! 
Bp. Hall. 
STA'NNARY, ad). Relating to the tin-works.—A stew¬ 
ard keepeth his court once every three weeks: they are 
termed stannary courts of the Latin stannum, and hold 
plea of action of debt or trespass about white or black tin. 
Carets. 
STANNERN, a small town of the Austrian States, in 
Moravia; 6 miles south-by-east of Iglau. Population 1100. 
STANNEY, Great and Little, two hamlets of Eng¬ 
land, in Cheshire; 5h miles north of Chester. 
STANNINGTON, a parish of England, in Northumber¬ 
land ; 5 miles south-by-east of Morpeth, The church con¬ 
tains some elegant paintings on glass, presented by Sir M. 
W. Ridley. Population 1270. 
STA'NNYEL, s. The common stone-hawk. See Mr. 
Steevcns's Note on Shakspearc. —Dr. Jamieson and Mr. 
Mason consider the name as the Sax. ptangilla, which 
means the pelican. This may be doubted. It is called also 
stanchil in the north.—With what wing the stannyel checks 
at it! Shakspeare. 
STANOVOI, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, forming part 
of the military line of the Issim. It is a square, flanked 
with four bastions, and contains a church and maga¬ 
zines, with a suburb of 70 houses; 8 miles south-west of 
Issim. 
STANOVOY, a chain of mountains in Asiatic Russia, 
forming part of the great northern chain which crosses the 
breadth of that continent. It receives this name after turn¬ 
ing to the north, near the source of the Aldane, whence it 
runs parallel to the Eastern sea or gulf of Okhotsk, leaving 
only a narrow plain intervening. It is of considerable height, 
and opposes serious difficulty to travellers proceeding to this 
extremity of the Russian empire. It is supposed to conti¬ 
nue uninterrupted, though with some diminution of magni¬ 
tude, to Cape Tchoutchi, at the north-east extremity of 
Asia; and the Aleutian and Fox isles may prohably be con¬ 
sidered in some degiee as a continuation of it. An important 
and lofty branch passes into Kamtschatka and the Kurile 
islands. This chain is supposed to consist of chiefly 
granite and porphyry, though there are whole mountains 
composed of green jasper. 
STANSFIELD, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 4j 
miles ncrih-by-east of Clare. Population 380. 
STANSTEAD, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 5 miles 
north-east of Wrotham. 
STANSTEAD, Abbotts, a parish of England, in Hert¬ 
fordshire, situated in a vale, by the river Lea; 2j miles 
north-east of Hoddesdon. In this parish stands the Rye- 
house, remarkable for the Rye-house plot in reign of Charles 
I. Population 832. 
STANSTEAD, Montfiohet, a parish of England, in 
Essex, which derives its name from an ancient castle built 
here on an artificial mount, about a quarter of a mile from 
the church, some relics of which were not long since visible. 
Population 870; 18 miles north-west of Chelmsford. 
STANSTEAD, a township of Lower Canada, on the 
eastern side of Lake Memphramagog, in the county of Rich- 
lieu. Population 2500. 
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STANTHORNE, a small village of England, in Cheshire, 
near Middlewich. 
STANTON, a hamlet of England, in Derbyshire; 3[ 
miles south-south-east of Bakewell. Population 656. 
STANTON, a parish of England, in Derbyshire, situated 
near the Erwash and Derby canal; 8 j miles east-by-north 
of Derby. Population 356. 
STANTON, a township of England, in the parish of 
Stepenhall, Derbyshire. Here is a very ancient chapel, the 
inside of which is still entire, and the ceiling, which was 
painted, carved and gilded, is in tolerable preservation. In 
the tower there are three rooms accessible by winding stone 
stairs ; one of these was occupied by Pope, when he "passed 
two summers here in retirement, while employed in his trans¬ 
lation of Homer, and where he was frequently visited by 
Gay. Population 946; 124 miles south-west of Derby, 
and 2 south-east of Burton-upon-Trent. 
STANTON, a hamlet of England, in Dorsetshire; 5 
miles west-by-south of Bridport. 
STANTON, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire; 
44 miles north-east of Winchcombe. 
STANTON, a parish of England, in Derbyshire; Gj 
miles south-by-east of Derby. 
STANTON, a township of England, in Northumberland ; 
5J miles north-west of Morpeth, 
STANTON, a township of England, in Staffordshire; 
4 miles west of Ashborn. 
STANTON, a parish of England, in Worcester, near 
Ridmerly, on the borders of Gloucestershire. 
STANTON, or Stannton, a parish of England, in 
Gloucester; 34 miles east-by-north of Monmouth. 
STANTON, a hamlet of England, in Lancashire, south¬ 
east of Dalton. 
STANTON, a small town of England, in Lincolnshire, 
with a market on Monday; 6 miles east-north-east of Lin¬ 
coln, and 146 north of London. 
STANTON, All Saints and St. John’s, two united 
parishes of England, in Suffolk; 3 miles north-east of Ix- 
w'orth. Population 816. 
STANTON-ON-ARROW, a parish of England, in 
Herefordshire; 54 miles east-north-east of Kington. Popu¬ 
lation 370. 
STANTON-UNDER-BARDON, a township of England, 
in Leicestershire; 9 miles north-west of Leicester. 
STANTON, St. Bernard’s, a parish of England, in 
Wiltshire; 5} miles east-by-north of Devizes. 
STANI’ON BARRY, a parish of England, in Bucking¬ 
hamshire ; 3 miles west-by-south of Newport Pagnell. 
STANTON-DREW, a parish of England, in Somerset¬ 
shire, situated on the river Chew, which runs into the Avon 
near Pensford. At a short distance from the church is a 
monument resembling Stonehenge, supposed to have been 
a Druidical temple. It consists of a circle of stones 5 or 6 
feet high, the diameter of which is 90 paces. Population 
682 ; 2 miles west-south-west of Pensford. 
ST ANION FEN, a parish of England, in Hunting¬ 
donshire ; 2 miles south-by-east of St. Ives. Population 
742. 
STANTON FITZWARREN, a parish of England, in 
Wiltshire; 2 miles south-west of Highworth. 
STANTON ST. QUINT1N, a parish of England, in 
Wiltshire; 4 miles north-by-west of Chippenham. 
STANTON ST. GABRIEL, a parish of England, in 
Dorsetshire, situated on the coast; 5 miles west-by-south of 
Bridport. 
STANTON HARCOURT, a village and parish of Eng¬ 
land, in the county of Oxford, situated on the banks of the 
Thames. In the fields adjacent there is a large barrow, near 
which are some stones called the Devil’s Coits: these are 8 
feet high, and 7 broad near the bottom, and are supposed to 
have been formed by cementing together small stones, of 
which there are vast numbers in these fields. Population 
553; 4 miles from Witney, and 6 west of Oxford. 
STANTON LACY, a parish of England, in Salop; 3| 
miles north-north-west of Ludlow. Population 1026. 
STANTON 
