th whom he had long lived
in such close friendship as to give rise to the belief that they were
_m._, he _d._ Among other works may be mentioned a description of the
Arundel Marbles (1629), a treatise concerning the Jewish calendar (1646),
and, specially, his _Table Talk_, _pub._ 1689, of which Coleridge said
"there is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I can find in the
same number of pages of any uninspired writer." He was likewise the
author of various treatises on constitutional matters and the law of
nations, including _Mare Clausum_ (a Closed Sea), in defence of the
property of England in its circumfluent seas. Most of these were written
in Latin.

_Coll. Works_ with _Life_, Dr. Wilkins (3 vols., folio, 1726), Aikin's
_Lives_ of Selden and Ussher.

SELLAR, WILLIAM YOUNG (1825-1890).--Scholar, _b._ in Sutherlandshire, his
_f._ being factor to the Duke of Sutherland, _ed._ at Glasgow Univ. and
Oxf., became in 1859 Prof. of Greek at St. Andrews and, in 1863, of Latin
at Edin. He _pub._ a work on the _Roman Poets of the Republic_ (1863),
followed by _The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age_. Both of these hold a
high place among modern works of scholarship.

SEMPILL, ROBERT (1530?-1595), SEMPILL, ROBERT (1595?-1659?), SEMPILL,
FRANCIS (1616?-1682).--Scottish poets, all belonging to the same family,
the last two being _f._ and _s._ The first was mainly a satirist, was in
Paris at the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and belonged to the extremist
division of the Reforming party, _The Regente's Tragedy_ laments the
death of Murray, _Ane Complaint upon Fortoun_, the fall of Morton. The
second Robert wrote _The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper_, a
humorous description of old Scottish life. Francis wrote occasional
pieces. The song _She Rose and let me in_, formerly attributed to him, is
now known to be by Tom D'Urfey (_q.v._).

SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864).--Economist and essayist, _s._ of a
clergyman, was _b._ at Compton Beauchamp, Berks, _ed._ at Eton and Oxf.,
studied law, and was called to the Bar in 1819. He twice held the
Professorship of Political Economy at Oxf., 1825-30 and 1847-52, rendered
important service as a member of the Poor Law Commission of 1833, and
wrote its Report. S. holds a high position among English economists, and
made many contributions to the literature of the science, including
_Outline of the Science of Political Economy_ (1836). He was, moreover, a
writer of consi