.

ROYAL Promotions, ii. 10.

ROYAL SOCIETY, origin of, ii. 410-413.

ROYAL Society of Literature, ii. 406, note.

RUBENS, his house at Antwerp, iii. 398; his love for collections of
art, 399, and note.

RUFFS, extravagances in, i. 222-227.

RUMP, the origin of the term, iii. 482, 483; three stages in its
political progress, 484; songs upon, 485; debate of the, whether to
massacre all the king's party, 487; parallel between their course of
conduct and that of the leaders in the French Revolution, 489-493.

SAINTE Ampoule, ii. 434, note.

SALMASIUS, his controversy with and abuse of Milton, i. 152-154.

SALVATOR ROSA, fond of acting in extemporal comedy, ii. 133.

SANDRICOURT, the Sieur de, ruined himself by one fete, iii. 402-405.

SANS CULOTTES, iii. 83.

ST. AMBROSE, writes a treatise on Virgins, i. 412; and another on
the Perpetual Virginity of the Mother of God, ib.; his chastisement
of an erring nun, ib.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW, apology for the massacre of, iii. 255-260.

ST. EVREMOND, literary portrait of, by himself, i. 102.

ST. URSULA and the Eleven Thousand Virgins all created out of a
blunder, i. 324.

ST. VIAR, created by an error, i, 323.

SATIRICAL medals, iii. 156-160.

SATIRISTS may dread the cane of the satirised, i. 442.

SATURNALIA, institution of among the Romans, derived by Macrobius
from the Grecians, ii. 256; dedicated to Saturn, ib.; latterly
prolonged for a week, 257; description of, ib.; crept into the
Christian Church, 258, and note; practised in the middle ages, 259;
Feast of Asses, ib.; "December liberties," 260; the boy-bishop, 261;
Lord of Misrule, ib.; Abbot of Unreason, 262; description of a grand
Christmas held at the Inns of Courts, 263-265, and note; the last
memorable, of the Lords of Misrule of the Inns of Court, 266;
anecdote of a Lord of Misrule, 267; the Mayor of Garratt, 269;
regiment de la Calotte, ib., and note, 270; Republic of Baboonery,
ib.; medals used for money in, iii. 150, 151.

SAUNTERING, i. 175.

SAVAGES, various usages of at meals, i. 171-173.

SCALIGER, Julius, his singular manner of composition, ii. 86.

SCARAMOUCHES.--See PANTOMIME. Punch and Zany, prints of, ii. 125;
character of, invented by Tiberio Fiurilli, 126; power of a
celebrated, ib.

SCARON, account of his life and works, i. 421-428.

SCENERY of the old