Sunderland, Robert Spencer, second Earl of, vi. 301; opposes the Exclusion, 307, 310; urges Charles II. to yield to it, 319, 321; relations with Charles, vii. 2; with James II., 12; betrays James to William, 37; urges the calling of a Parliament, 39; dismissed, 40; character, 82; his ministerial system, 83, 84, 98 Sunderland, Charles Spencer, third Earl of, ambassador at Vienna, vii. 125; Secretary of State, 131; his policy, 132; dismissed, 139; in the Stanhope ministry, 190 Surajah Dowlah, vii. 261, 262 Surrey, rising in, iii. 64 Surrey, Thomas Holland, Duke of (Earl of Kent), iii. 7, 8 Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, iv. 42-45 Surrey, Thomas Howard, second Earl of, iii. 210. _See_ Norfolk Surrey, Thomas Howard, third Earl of, iii. 244, 248. _See_ Norfolk Surrey, Earls of. _See_ Warenne Sussex accepts Wulfhere's overlordship, i. 85; conquered by Ine, 90; rising in, iii. 64; Protestant martyrs in, iv. 96; ironworks in, iv. 279. _See_ South Saxons Sussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, third Earl of, iv. 111, 240, 241, 269 Swan, Edward I.'s vow on the, ii. 95, 173, 174 Sweden united under King Eric, i. 128 Swein I., king of Denmark, i. 140-143 Swein II., Estrithson, king of Denmark, i. 167 Swein, son of Earl Godwine, i. 150, 151, 152 Swereford, Alexander de, ii. 43 Swift, Jonathan, vi. 158; vii. 138 Swineshead, abbey of, i. 356 Swinford, Catherine, ii. 369; iii. 59 Sydenham, Thomas, vi. 166 Table, the Round, legends of, i. 247; of Edward I., ii. 95; of Edward III., 249, 290 "Tables," the, v. 331, 333 Taillebourg, battle of, ii. 35 Taillefer, i. 163 Tailors' gild at Exeter, i. 318 Talavera, battle of, viii. 188 Talbot, John, Lord, iii. 56, 63. _See_ Shrewsbury Taliesin, ii. 53, 57 Tallard, Marshal, vii. 120 Talleyrand, Maurice de, viii. 206 Tamworth fortified by Æthelflæd, i. 118 Tancred, king of Sicily, i. 260 Tangier ceded to England, vi. 192; English garrison withdrawn from, vii. 4 Taunton founded by Ine, i. 89; Blake's defence of, vi. 78; Monmouth at, vii. 9 Taxation under the Norman kings, ii. 104; under Richard I., i. 264, 350; under John, 330, 322, 351; regulated by Great Charter, 351; ii. 105, 145; under Edward III., 291; Wolsey's plans of, iii. 245, 246; character under Elizabeth, iv. 233; Parliament regains control over, vii. 60, 61; during the French war, viii. 114, 137; arbitrary, abolished, v. 352; indirect, its introduction and growth, ii. 105; of personal property, i. 257; ii. 105; of boroughs, 152, 153; of wool, 107; of America, schemes for, vii. 311, 326; viii. 3, 4, 14; papal, of the clergy, ii. 42 Taylor, Jeremy, vi. 134-137, 326 Taylor, Rowland, iv. 92-94 Teignmouth burnt by the French, vii. 76