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where the indications of the progress of Caesar’s expedition 
in this island may be traced ; and the collections which he 
made during these travels, were published in 1724, in folio, 
with numerous plates, under the title of “ Itinerarium Cu- 
riosurh and a second volume, containing his description 
of the Brill, or Caesar’s camp at Pancras, in 1725. 
In the following year, 1726, Dr. Stukeley quitted Lon¬ 
don, and settled at Grantham, where he speedily acquired 
an extensive reputation, and was consulted by the nobility 
and principal families in that neighbouring country. In 
1728 he married a lady of good family and fortune. The 
fatigues of the profession, however, and the repeated attacks 
of gout, which still harrassed him, became at length too great 
for his strength, and he determined to enter the church. He 
was ordained at Croydon, in 1720, by archbishop Wake; 
and in the same year was presented, by Lord Chancellor 
King, to the living of All-Saints in Stamford. About the 
time of his entering on his parochial cure, in 1730, Dr. 
Rogers of that place had just invented his oleum arithi- 
ticurn, which Dr. Stukeley was induced to try, and having 
experienced great relief from its use, both in his own person 
and in others, he was induced to publish an account of its 
effects, in a letter to Sir Hans Sloane, in 1733; and in the 
year follow ing, he printed “ A Treatise on the Cause and 
Cure of Gout, from a new Rationale.” Besides some tracts 
of minor importance relative to antiquities, he published, in 
1736, the first number of his “ Palseographia Sacra; or 
Discourses on the Monuments of Antiquity that relate to Sa¬ 
cred History.” In this work, which he intended to con¬ 
tinue, he maintains that the heathen mythology is derived 
from sacred history, and that the Bacchus of the poets, for 
example, is the Jehovah of scripture, the conductor of the 
Israelites through the wilderness. During his residence at 
Stamford, he arranged his collection of Greek and Roman 
coins according to the order of the scripture history, and 
from this time his publications were very numerous. 
In 1737 he lost his wife, and afterwards married the only 
daughter of the learned antiquary. Dr. Gale, dean of York, 
and sister of his intimate friends Roger aud Samuel Gale, 
from which period he often spent his winters in London. 
In 1740, he published an account of Stonehenge, which he 
regarded as a druidical monument. This was followed by 
his account of the remains of Abury, in the same county; 
and into these works he incorporated a great p irt of a 
** History of the ancient Celts, particularly the lirst Inha¬ 
bitants of Great Britain,” which he had announced as a 
separate work. In his “ History of Carausius,” in two 
volumes 4fo. published in 1757 and 1759, he has displayed 
much erudition aud ingenuity in settling the principal events 
of that emperor’s government in Britain. He published, 
besides, many interesting and valuable tracts, especially 
three numbers of “ Palaegraphia Britannica;” some papers 
respecting earthquakes, &c.: but the last labours of his 
life were dedicated to the completion of an elaborate work 
on ancient British coins, particularly those of Cunobelin, in 
which he felicitated himself on having discovered many new 
and curious anecdotes relative to the reigns of the British kings. 
Dr. Stukeley was one of the founders of the Egyptian 
Society in the year 1741, in which he became acquainted 
with the benevolent duke of Montague, who prevailed upon 
him, in 1747, to vacate his preferments in the country, and 
accept the rectory of St. George’s, Queen-square. He 
therefore moved his residence again to London, and had a 
retreat at Kentish Town. In February, 1765, he was seized 
with a stroke of the palsy, which terminated his valuable 
life in the March following, in the 78th year of his age. He 
was interred in the church-yard of East Ham, in Essex, in a 
spot which he had chosen when on a visit to the vicar a short 
time previous to his death. All his works evince a pro¬ 
found knowledge of ancient history, tinctured indeed with 
that propensity common to his fraternity, of magnifying the 
importance of his subjects by the assumptions of a lively 
fancy, and some credulity. 
STUKELY, Great, a parish of England, in Hunting¬ 
donshire ; miles north-north-west of Huntingdon. 
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STUKELY, Little, another parish in the above coun¬ 
ty ; one mile distant from the foregoing. 
STUKELY, a township of Lower Canada, in the county 
of Richlieu. Population 250. 
STULM, s. A shaft to draw water out of a mine. 
STULTI'LOQUENCE, 5. Foolish talk. 
STULTI'LOQUY, s. [stultiloquium , Lat.] Foolish 
babbling or discourse.—What they call facetiousness and 
pleasant wit, is indeed to wise persons a meer stultiloquy, 
or talking like a fool. Bp. Taylor. 
To STU'LTIFY, v. a. [stultus and facio, Lat.j To 
prove foolish or void of understanding.—In England no 
man is allowed to stultify himself. Johnson. 
STUM, s. Wine yet unfermented : must—An unctious 
clammy vapour, that arises from the stum of grapes, when 
they he mashed in the vat, puts out a light when dipped into 
it. Addison. —New wine used to raise fermentation in 
dead and vapid wines. 
Let our wines without mixture or stum be all fine. 
Or call up the master, and break his dull noddle. B. Jonson . 
Wine revived by a new fermentation. 
Drink ev’ry letter on’t in stum. 
And make it brisk champaig’ne become. Uudihras . 
To STUM, v. a. To renew wine by mixing fresh wine 
and raising a new fermentation.—Vapid wines are put upon 
the lees of noble wines to give them spirit, and we stum our 
wines to renew their spirits. Floyer. 
STUM, a small town of West Prussia ; 33 miles south- 
south-east of Dantzic. It contains 900 inhabitants. 
To STUMBLE, v. n. [This word Junius derives from 
stump, and says the original meaning is to strike, or trip 
against a stump. Todd supposes it may come from tumble.'] 
To trip in walking. 
As we pac’d along 
Upon the giddy footing of the hatches, 
Methought that Glo’ster stumbled ; and, in falling, 
Struck me, that sought to stay him, overboard. Shakspeare. 
To slip; to err; to slide into crimes or blunders. 
This my day of grace 
They who neglect and scorn, shall never taste; 
But hard be harden’d, blind be blinded more. 
That they may stumble on and deeper fall. Milton J 
To strike against by chance; to fight on by chance: with 
upon. 
What man art thou, that, thus bescreen’d in night. 
So stumblest on my counsel. Shakspeare. 
To STUMBLE, i>. a. To obstruct in progress; to make 
to trip or stop.—It holds out false and dazzling fires to stum¬ 
ble men. Milton. —To make to boggle ; to offend. 
This stumbles me: art sure for me, wench, 
This preparation is ? Beaum. and FI, 
STU'MBLE, s. A trip in walking; a blunder; a failure. 
—One stumble is enough to deface the character of an 
honourable life. L'Estrange. 
STU'MBLER, s. One that stumbles. 
Be sweet to all: is thy complexion sour ? 
Then keep such company; make them thy allay : 
Get a sharp wife, a servant that will low’r; 
A stum bier stumbles least in rugged way. Herbert. 
STU'MBLINGBLOCK, or Stu'mblingstone, s. Cause 
of stumbling; cause of error; cause of offence—Shakspeare 
is a stumblingblock to these rigid critics. Spectator. 
STU'MBLINGLY, adv. With failure; with blunder.— 
I know not whether to marvel more, either that he [Chaucer] 
in that misty time could see so clearly, or that we in this clear 
age go so stumblingly after him. Sidney. 
STUMP, s. [stumpe, Danish ; stompe, Dutch; stom- 
pen, Dan. to lop.] The part of any solid body remaining 
after the rest is taken away.—Your colt’s tooth is not cast yet., 
—Not while I have a slump. Shakspeare. —Worn to the 
stumps 
