Ship-money, v. 317; Laud's developement of, 318; Hampden's resistance to, 323; its legality asserted by the judges, _ib._; trial of Hampden's case, 324, 330; judgement on, 331; declared illegal, 352
Shires, i. 185; restriction of franchise in, iii. 101, 102; the six, of York, i. 295
Shrewsbury (Pengwern), i. 98; castle at, 168; reduced by Llewelyn ap Jorwerth, ii. 55; Parliament at, 121, 371; battle of, iii. 14; Charles I. at, vi. 2
Shrewsbury, John Talbot, first Earl of (_see_ Talbot), iii. 70, 71
Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, twelfth Earl and first Duke of, vii. 23, 28; signs the invitation to William, 35; sends him funds, 37; Secretary of State, 67; negotiates with James, 77; member of the Junto, 88; President of the Council, 146
Sicily, crown of, offered to Edmund of England, ii. 59; ceded to Savoy, vii. 142, 186; conquered by Spain, 187
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, first Viscount (_see_ Addington), viii. 174, 179, 183
Sidney, Algernon, supports the Independents, vi. 45; relations with Lewis XIV., 229, 298; holds meetings with Monmouth, etc., 336; beheaded, 337; his attainder reversed, vii. 66
Siward, Earl of Northumbria, i. 150, 152, 153
Skeffington, Lord Deputy in Ireland, iii. 328
Slave-trade at Bristol, i. 250; negro, its beginning, iv. 283; in the eighteenth century, viii. 52; proposals for its abolition, _ib._, 79; abolished, 178, 179
Slavery in Old England, i. 16, 17; dies out, 321, 322
Smerwick, slaughter of its garrison, iv. 316
Smithfield, Priory of St. Bartholomew at, i. 223; Archbishop Boniface's visitation of, ii. 32
Somers, John, vii. 46; member of the Junto, 85; Lord Keeper, 88; retires, 98; impeached, 105; arranges the Union with Scotland, 128; President of the Council, 133; of the Royal Society, vi. 166; death, vii. 182
Somerset conquered by West Saxons, i. 90; rises against William I., 168; lead-mines in, 30
Somerset, John Beaufort, Earl of, (Marquis of Dorset), iii. 7
Somerset, John Beaufort, first Duke of, iii. 59
Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, second Duke of (_see_ Beaufort), Regent of France, iii. 62; recalled, 67; arrested, 68; released, _ib._; captain of Calais, 69; committed to the Tower, 71, 72; released, 72; slain, 74
Somerset, Henry Beaufort, third Duke of, iii. 78, 80, 126