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 Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, fourth Duke of, iii. 140, 143-145 Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of (_see_ Rochester), v. 193, 204-207 Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of (_see_ Hertford), iv. 46; Protector, 47; his policy, 48, 53, 54; relations with Scotland, 52; victory at Pinkie Cleugh, 513; revolts against, 55; his misrule, 56; fall, 57; beheaded, 65 Somerset, Charles Seymour, sixth Duke of, vii. 21, 146 Somerset, Frances, Countess of. _See_ Howard Somerset, Margaret, Duchess of, iii. 161 Somerton captured by Æthelbald, i. 91 Somerville, plotter, iv. 350 Soranzo's _Despatches_, iv. 3 Sophia, Electress of Hanover, vii. 103, 144 Soult, Marshal, viii. 188, 200, 202 Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, first Earl of (_see_ Wriothesley), iv. 47 Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of, v. 41, 43 Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, fourth Earl of, vi. 193, 244 South-Engle, i. 37, 119 Southey, Robert, viii. 135 South-folk, i. 42 South-Saxons, kingdom of, i. 34 South Sea Bubble, vii. 192 Southwark burnt by William the Conqueror, i. 165; Bishop Beaufort's palace at, attacked, iii. 44 Spain, its relations with Aquitaine and France, ii. 281, 282; Edward III.'s policy in, 282, 283, 287; its growth under Ferdinand and Isabel, iii. 186; its greatness under Philip II., iv. 325-327; possessions in the New World, 329; ruin of its power, 366; its relations with James I., v. 212-214, 226, 227, 230-233; decline, vi. 113, 190; Cromwell's war with, 117; relations with Charles II., 187; with Lewis XIV., 249, 250; joins the Grand Alliance, vii. 49; dispute for the succession in, 90, 92-94, 98, 99; English descent on, 118; Peterborough's campaign in, 126; attempts to regain its lost possessions, 186-188; end of the succession quarrel, 188; relations with Austria, 199, 200; with France, 213-216; efforts to regain monopoly of trade in America, 216, 217; war with England, 219, 306; cedes Florida, 307; league with France and America, viii. 30; mastered by Napoleon, 185; rises against him, 186; Wellesley's campaigns in, 187, 188, 199, 200; the French driven from, 202 Speed's _Chronicle_, v. 4 Spencer, George John, second Earl, viii. 104, 156 Spenser, Edmund, v. 11-19 Spice Islands conquered by England, viii. 112 Spinola, Ambrogio, v. 219, 220 Spires, Diet of, iv. 19 _Sports, Book of_, v. 296