Savoy, Duke of, his persecutions of the Vaudois, 227, 228
Scotch, defeat Charles I.’s forces in Bishops’ Wars, 41;
adventurers in the Netherlands, 58;
relations with Parliamentarians, 78;
they aid the Parliamentarians, 84;
besiege York, 85;
at Marston Moor, 86, 87;
their military qualities, 94;
Charles I.’s surrender to, 98;
relations with Charles I. in Parliament, 116;
declare for King against army, 120;
they aid the cavaliers, 121;
in Second Civil War, 122;
Presbyterians at Ulster, 122;
union with Royalists, 124;
at Preston, 125–128;
Puritan treatment of, 129;
support Parliament after Second Civil War, 131;
in touch with Ulster, 146;
share in Irish war, 147;
at Trim, 157;
declare for Charles II., 162, 164;
losses at Dunbar, 171;
assemble at Stirling, 174, 220;
immigrants into Ireland, 223;
their share in British expansion, 238
Scotch Highlanders, military type of, in Civil Wars, 95
Scotch Presbyterians, support Charles II., 150
Scotland, character of, 18;
Episcopacy rejected there, 38, 40;
demands indemnity after Bishops’ Wars, 41;
its claims paid by the Long Parliament, 54;
makes terms with Charles I., 55;
brawls in, 58;
league with Parliamentarians, 80;
Royalist hope of, 94;
end of Royalist party there, 98;
complex political conditions, 122, 123;
Royalists and Covenanters, 165, 166;
subdued by Parliamentarians, 178;
definitive union with England, 201;
rule under the Protectorate, 220, 221
Scout-master, 84
Sea-power, Spanish, in sixteenth century, 227
Secession, right of, in American States, 62
Sectaries, Parliamentarian intolerance of, 116;
hatred of the Kirk for, 169
Self-denying Ordinance, the, 93, 94
Self-government, qualities of, 235
“Serving men and tapsters,” 73
Severn, river, 71
Seymour, American Vice-President, 103
Sheridan, American cavalry commander, 70;
compared with Cromwell in pursuit, 171
Ship Money, 34;
payment of, refused by Hampden, 35, 45;
declared illegal by Long Parliament, 54
Short Parliament, hostility of, to Charles I., 41.
_See also Parliament_
Sixty-seventh Regiment, Cromwell’s captaincy in, 58
Skippon, Parliamentarian major-general, wounded at Naseby, 97
Slavery, prisoners of Puritans sold into, 129, 153;
in the United States, 193
Sligo, captured, 148
Smithfield, 39
Soldiers, citizen and regular types compared, 64–69;
veterans at Marston Moor, 87;
pay neglected by Parliament, 116;
Scotch at Preston, 128;
their ready changes of allegiance, 129;
religion not always a cause of efficiency among them, 166
South Africa, volunteers in, 67
South American republics, 193
Southerners, in the United States, 102
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