117;
in London, vi. 28

Sedgemoor, battle of, vii. 10

Sedley, Sir Charles, vi. 163

Selden, John, v. 306, 322

Seminary priests, the, iv. 307-309, 354;
banished, v. 156

Senlac, i. 162, 163

Serfs, manumission of, i. 325.
_See_ Villeins

Seven Years' War,
its beginning, vii. 248;
its importance, 273-275;
its end, 307

Seville, Treaty of, vii. 200

Seymour, Sir Edward, vi. 253

Seymour, Jane, iii. 326, 351

Seymour, Thomas, Lord, iv. 47, 56

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley, Cooper, first earl of (_see_ Ashley
Cooper),
Lord Chancellor, vi. 271;
speech on the war, 272;
relations with the king, 275;
change of policy, 276, 277;
dismissed, 278;
his plans, 279, 280;
committed to the Tower, 288;
released, 295;
attitude towards the Popish plot, 295-297;
correspondence with Barillon, 298;
President of the Council, 300;
supports the Exclusion, 306, 307;
project for Monmouth's succession, 309, 310;
dismissed again, 311;
revives the plot, 312, 313;
struggle with Charles, 313-315, 321, 324;
arrested, 324;
bill of his indictment thrown out, 334;
popularity in London, _ib._;
flight and death, 336

Shakspere, William,
his early life, v. 27-31;
first plays, 31-35;
historical plays, 35-36, 38-40;
attitude towards religion, 37, 38;
political sympathies, 39, 40;
prosperity, 41, 42;
gloom, 42-44;
last plays, 45, 46;
demand for his works in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
vii. 292

Sharp, Rev. Dr., vii. 18

Shaxton, bishop of Salisbury, iii. 336, 347

Shelburne, William Fitzmaurice, second earl of,
President of the Board of Trade, vii. 315-319;
protests against the prosecution of Wilkes, 318;
resigns, 319;
advocates repeal of the Stamp Act, 331, 338;
takes office under Chatham, 340;
resigns office, viii. 6;
heads a ministry, 65;
makes peace with America, _ib._;
resigns, 66.
_See_ Lansdowne

Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, vi. 162

Sheriffmuir, battle of, vii. 183

Sheriffs,
their position under William I., i. 185;
appointment regulated by Provisions of Oxford, ii. 61;
functions in the shire-court, 149;
disqualified from serving in Parliament, 300

Ship-money, v. 317;
Laud's developement of, 318;
Hampden's resistance to, 323;