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 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 Shire-court. _See_ County Court Shire-reeves, i. 131 Shirley, James, v. 303 Shore, Jane, iii. 117 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 Shropshire ravaged by the Welsh, iii. 19 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 Sidney, Sir Henry, iv. 241 Sidney, Sir Philip, v. 6, 7, 11, 12 Sikhs, the, vii. 234 Simeon of Durham, i. 6, 173, 243 Simnel, Lambert, iii. 176 Siward, Earl of Northumbria, i. 150, 152, 153 Sixtus V., Pope, iv. 353 Skeffington, Lord Deputy in Ireland, iii. 328 Skelton, John, iii. 273; iv. 43 Slanning, Sir Nicholas, vi. 6 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 Sluys, sea-fight off, ii. 228 Smerwick, slaughter of its garrison, iv. 316 Smith, Adam, viii. 73 Smith, John, settler of Virginia, v. 307 Smith, Sir Sidney, viii. 141 Smithfield, Priory of St. Bartholomew at, i. 223; Archbishop Boniface's visitation of, ii. 32 Smollett, Tobias, vii. 297 Snowdon, Lords of, ii. 53 Solway Moss, battle of, iv. 25 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