_Sorbonne_, decision of the, about Henry VIII.’s marriage, ii. 27, and _note_ _Spahis_, name of a regiment of the Imperial guard, i. 154, and _note_; mentioned, 283 _Spain_, the posts to, stopped, ii. 151; threatens the liberties of Europe, 226 _Spaniards_, the, take Djerbé, i. 317-318; their fleet defeated by the Turks, 318; their sufferings during the siege, 320-321; their sufferings in prison alleviated by Busbecq, 326-328 _Spanish_ ambassador, his remonstrances about Salceda’s head, ii. 155 _Spanish_ officer employed as gooseherd, i. 209 _Stag_, fierceness of a, i. 208 _Standing armies_, dangers of, i. 296-297 _States-General_, their meeting demanded, ii. 57; mock States-General convened, 87; summoned, 257 _Sterckenburg_, officer sent by Casimir to Elizabeth, ii. 130 _Strasburg_, the Bishop of, notice of Elizabeth’s departure sent to him, ii. 124, and _note_; prevented from coming to Nancy by fear of the German reiters, 129; his return home, 133; remains at Bâle, 135 _Strozzi_, Philippe, Marshal of France, ii. 39; killed at the Azores, 146 _Sunnites_ and Schiis, the two great sects of Mohammedans, i. 161, _note_ _Sweden_, marriage between the daughter of the King of, and Henry III. spoken of, ii. 43; her portrait, 63 _Swiss_ Ambassadors at Paris, ii. 63; entertainments and presents to them, 158, 160 _Swiss_ troops defeated by Montbrun, ii. 78 _Symplegades_ or floating islands at the mouth of the Bosphorus, i. 132 _Szigeth_, fortress in Hungary, attacked by Ali Pasha, i. 236; relieved by the Archduke Ferdinand, 237-238 _Tahmasp_, Shah, at war with Solyman, i. 115; his character and mode of life, 300; sends envoys to Bajazet, 307; invites him to visit him, 308; his treachery towards him, _ib._; and his motives, 309; causes him to be arrested at his table and his followers to be murdered, 311; prefers that Selim should succeed to the throne, 312; his treacherous conduct, 378; consents to Bajazet’s execution, 381 _Tamerlane_, indignities inflicted by him on Bajazet and his wife, i. 112; his descendants, 379 _Tartar, a_, his hair his only head covering, i. 85 _Tartars_ in the Crimea, account of the, i. 356 _Tashkend_, city of, visited by Turkish pilgrim, i. 360 _Tassis_ (_or Taxis_), _J. B._, Spanish ambassador in Paris, superseded and sent to the Netherlands, ii. 230, and _note_ _Taxis_, Leonhard de, Postmaster-General in the Netherlands, ii. 28, and _note_ _Tchekmedjé_, Buyuk and Kutchuk, bays near Constantinople, i. 109, _note_ _Tchourlou_, town of, famous for the defeat of Selim, i. 108