succession in, 90, 92-94, 98, 99;
English descent on, 118;
Peterborough's campaign in, 126;
attempts to regain its lost possessions, 186-188;
end of the succession quarrel, 188;
relations with Austria, 199, 200;
with France, 213-216;
efforts to regain monopoly of trade in America, 216, 217;
war with England, 219, 306;
cedes Florida, 307;
league with France and America, viii. 30;
mastered by Napoleon, 185;
rises against him, 186;
Wellesley's campaigns in, 187, 188, 199, 200;
the French driven from, 202

Speed's _Chronicle_, v. 4

Spencer, George John, second Earl, viii. 104, 156

Spenser, Edmund, v. 11-19

Spice Islands conquered by England, viii. 112

Spinola, Ambrogio, v. 219, 220

Spires, Diet of, iv. 19

_Sports, Book of_, v. 296

Spottiswood, Archbishop of St. Andrews, v. 326

Sprigge's _Anglia Rediviva_, v. 73

Spurs, battle of the, iii. 210

Stafford fortified by AEthelflaed, i. 118

Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, vi. 321

Stafford, Henry, iii. 166

Stafford, Sir Humphrey, iii. 66

Stafford, Thomas, iv. 107

Stair, John Dalrymple, second Earl of, vii. 229

Stamford,
one of the Five Boroughs, i. 117;
submits to Eadward the Elder, 119

Stamford Bridge, battle of, i. 162

Stamford, Henry Grey, first Earl of, vi. 5

Standard,
battle of the, i. 217;
Harold's, at Senlac, 163, 164;
of Wessex, the Golden Dragon, 96, 163

Stanhope, James, first Earl, vii. 182, 190, 192

Stanley, Thomas, Lord, iii. 171, 172

Stanley, Sir William, iii. 172

Staple, Gild of the, ii. 304;
reform of, under Richard II., 355

Star-Chamber, Court of, i. 256; ii. 112; iii. 178;
regulates the Press, iv. 343;
developement under Charles I., v. 278;
Laud's use of, 329;
its civil jurisdiction abolished by Long Parliament, 363

States-General, the French, viii. 83;
become a National Assembly, 86

Statutes
substituted for Ordinances, ii. 298, 299;
Petitions changed into, iii. 90;
of Apparel, 65;
of Appeals, 302;
of Occasional Conformity, vii. 123;
repealed, 184:
Conventicle, vi. 220;
Corporation, 207;
Declaratory, vii. 338;
of Economical Reform, viii. 64. 76;
of First-fruits, iii. 302, 304;
Five Mile, vi. 229;
of Grace, vii. 69;
Habeas Corpus, vi. 305, 306;
suspended, vii. 184;