Slang phrases. (_See_ Popular Follies.)

Slow Poisoners, the. (_See_ Poisoning.)

Smollett, on history and the South-Sea Bubble, i. 67.

Soliman the Sultan, his conflict with the Crusaders, ii. 18.

Somerset, the Earl of (poisoner of Sir Thos. Overbury), _portrait_ of,
ii. 200;
his origin and rise at court; supposed vicious connexion with James I.;
his intrigue and marriage with the Countess of Essex; the murder of
Overbury; the earl's trial and sentence, 193-201.

Somerset, the Countess of, her participation in the murder of Sir Thos.
Overbury, with _portrait_, ii. 201.

Songs:
on the Mississippi scheme, i. 36;
on the South-Sea Bubble, 50;
on famous thieves, ii. 260;
on witchcraft, popular in Germany, 165;
popularity of "Cherry Ripe," "The Sea," "Jim Crow," 246.

Songs, Beranger's "Thirteen at Table," i. 257.

Songs of the Rosicrucians, i. 168, 204.

Sorcery. (_See_ Witchcraft and Alchemy.)

Sorel, Agnes, her patronage of Jacques Coeur, the alchymist, i. 132.

SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE, history of, i. 45-84;
the Company originated by Harley, Earl of Oxford; its primary object, 45;
visionary ideas of South-Sea trade; restrictions imposed by Spanish
Government, 46;
proposals to Parliament to reduce the debt; capital increased to twelve
millions; success of the Company, 47;
its application to take the whole state debt; counter application by the
Bank of England; the former adopted by Parliament; stock rises
from 130 to 300, 48;
Sir R. Walpole's warning; directors' exertions to raise the prices, 49;
bill passed; great demand for shares, 50;
other bubble schemes started and encouraged, 51, 52;
eighty-six of them dissolved, 55, 57;
shares at 400; fall to 290, but raised by the directors' schemes, 51;
dividend declared; increased excitement, 52;
Swift' lines on Change Alley; extent of the delusion; frauds of
schemers, 54;
fears of the judicious; bubble companies proclaimed unlawful, 55;
continued excitement; stock at 1000, 62, 63;
Sir John Blunt, the chairman, sells out; stock falls; meeting of the
company; Mr. Secretary Craggs supports directors, 63;
increased panic; negociation with Bank of England, 64, 65;
they agree to circulate the company's bonds, 66;
total failure of the company; social and moral evils of the scheme, 67;
arrogance of the directors; petitions for vengeance on them; King's
speech