to Parliament, 69;
debates thereon, 69, 71;
punishment resolved on, 70;
Walpole's plan to restore credit; officers of the company forbidden to
leave England, 71;
ministers proved to have been bribed by shares, 73, 77;
directors apprehended; treasurer absconds, 73;
measures to arrest him, 73, 74;
directors expelled from Parliament, 74;
chairman's examination, 75;
treasurer imprisoned at Antwerp, but escapes, 76;
reports on the details of the fraud, 76;
Mr. Stanhope, Secretary to Treasury, charged but acquitted;
dissatisfaction thereon, 78;
Mr. Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, committed to the Tower, and
consequent rejoicings (_engraving_), 79;
Sir George Caswall punished; the Earl of Sunderland acquitted; death of
Mr. Secretary Craggs, and his father, participators in the fraud, 80;
heavy fines on the directors; account of these proceedings by Gibbon the
historian, 81;
measures adopted to restore credit, 83;
caricatures by Hogarth and others (_seven engravings_), 60, 61, 68, 70,
76, 82, 84.

South-Sea House, _view_ of, i. 45.

Spara, Hieronyma, the slow poisoner of Rome, her trial and execution,
ii. 205.

Speculations. (_See_ Money Mania, the Mississippi Scheme, South-Sea Bubble,
and Bubble Schemes.)

Spenser, his description of Merlin and his cave, i. 232, 237.

Spirits. (_See_ Demons, Witchcraft, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, &c.)

Sprenger, a German witch-finder; his persecutions, ii. 118-159.

St. Bernard preaches the second Crusade, ii. 53, 55;
his miracles, 56;
failure of his prophecies, 62.

St. Dunstan and the devil, ii. 103.

St. Evremond, his account of the impositions of Valentine Greatraks,
i. 270.

St. Germain (Count de), the alchymist, memoir of, i. 200;
his profusion of jewels, 203;
his pretensions to long life, 205.

St. John's Eve, St. Mark's Eve, St. Swithin's Eve, superstitious customs,
i. 258.

Stanhope, Earl, supports the proposition to punish the directors of the
South-Sea Company, i. 72, 73;
is stigmatised in Parliament, and dies suddenly, 75.

Stanhope, Charles, secretary to Treasury;
his participation in the South-Sea fraud, i. 77, 78;
his acquittal by parliament, and consequent disturbances, 78.

Stedinger, the, a section of the Frieslanders; their independence; accused
of witchcraft by the Pope, and exterminated by the German nobles,
ii. 1