Scots, i. 31; submit to Eadward the Elder, 119; league with Cumbrians and Welsh against Æthelstan, 119, 120; alliance with Eadmund, 123; conquer northern Northumbria, 146; cession of Lothian to, its results, 147; invade England, 217, 254; their mode of warfare, ii. 204, 205; recapture Berwick, 259, 263; defeated at Homildon Hill, iii. 12; besiege York, vi. 18; besiege Newcastle, 23; give up Charles I. to the Parliament, 49; invade England again, 62; defeated at Preston, _ib._
Scrope, Richard, Archbishop of York, iii. 18
Scutage, i. 233, 257, 344, 350, 351; ii. 104
Sectaries, their rise, v. 117; in London, vi. 28
Seminary priests, the, iv. 307-309, 354; banished, v. 156
Serfs, manumission of, i. 325. _See_ Villeins
Seven Years' War, its beginning, vii. 248; its importance, 273-275; its end, 307
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley, Cooper, first earl of (_see_ Ashley Cooper), Lord Chancellor, vi. 271; speech on the war, 272; relations with the king, 275; change of policy, 276, 277; dismissed, 278; his plans, 279, 280; committed to the Tower, 288; released, 295; attitude towards the Popish plot, 295-297; correspondence with Barillon, 298; President of the Council, 300; supports the Exclusion, 306, 307; project for Monmouth's succession, 309, 310; dismissed again, 311; revives the plot, 312, 313; struggle with Charles, 313-315, 321, 324; arrested, 324; bill of his indictment thrown out, 334; popularity in London, _ib._; flight and death, 336
Shakspere, William, his early life, v. 27-31; first plays, 31-35; historical plays, 35-36, 38-40; attitude towards religion, 37, 38; political sympathies, 39, 40; prosperity, 41, 42; gloom, 42-44; last plays, 45, 46; demand for his works in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, vii. 292
Shaxton, bishop of Salisbury, iii. 336, 347
Shelburne, William Fitzmaurice, second earl of, President of the Board of Trade, vii. 315-319; protests against the prosecution of Wilkes, 318; resigns, 319; advocates repeal of the Stamp Act, 331, 338; takes office under Chatham, 340; resigns office, viii. 6; heads a ministry, 65; makes peace with America, _ib._; resigns, 66. _See_ Lansdowne
Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, vi. 162
Sheriffs, their position under William I., i. 185; appointment regulated by Provisions of Oxford, ii. 61; functions in the shire-court, 149; disqualified from serving in Parliament, 300