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GENEBAL INDEX.
Seion, evangelizer of Wales, i. 152
Sejanus on Ben Jonson and Bacon, ii. 469
Selby, Yorks, Peculiar Court, and parish registers
xii. 409, 475 Selby Abbey, Admiral Christ epitaph in, vi. 43u.
517 ; Christmas at, 1397, x. 506 Self-made men, list in Wroughton House, Wilts,
iii. 426 Selincourt (E. de) on recently discovered Keats
MSS., iii. 81
Selle (L. S.) on Sherwood family, ix. 389 Sellinger (St. Leger), 1730-1, i. 428, 491 Sellpuc on Cuplahills, i. 189 Sellwood (W. M. M.) on St. Mary's, Shrewsbury,
xi. 48 Selvaggi (Giovanni), his tribute to Milton, viii.
48
Selwyn (Mrs. E.) on Zoffany, x. 130 Selwyn (G.), fondness for executions, xii. 107,
175 Semaphore signalling, xi. 168, 211, 271, 336, 358,
433
Semicolon, abbreviating, its origin, ii. 301 Semi-effigies in Lichfield Cathedral, ii. 269, 434 Semites, their attitude towards labour, vii. 515 Semper family, iv. 487 ; v. 52, 112" Semur, horse-racing at, v. 167, 237, 294 Senage and Proxege, in records of St. Paul's, xi.
27, 77 Send of the sea, meaning of the term, i. 368, 456,
517
Seneca, reference to passage by, vii. 110 Senex on Sir Alexander Brett, x. 289. Deux-
saint family, x. 309. Kingsley's ' Lorraine,'
x. 278. Mercury in Tom Quad, iii. 32. " Poeta
nascitur, non fit," ii. 388. Rime v. rhyme, v.
469 ; vi. 52. Welsh judges, xii. 28 Senga on Gray's ' Elegy,' v. 428. " Raisins of the
Cure," ix. 308. Tulipomania, iv. 137 Senon on Browning portrait by Leighton, ,viii. 67 Sentry at Windsor Castle and clock striking
thirteen, iii. 229, 277, 310 Seoul, its pronunciation, i. 43
September, Baskish name for, its meaning, vi. 326 Sepulchres, Easter, instances of, i. 265, 398 ;
iii. 304 ; ix. 305
Seraskier, its pronunciation, xi. 144, 197, 293, 352 Serbian-English dictionary, vi. 28 Sergeant (John), his ' Reason against Raillery,'
viii. 447
Sergeant (J. E. H.) on heraldic pewter, viii. 487 Sergeants, their sashes, i. 168, 238, 277 ; their
chevrons, 349, 472 Seringapatam, account of its storming, vii. 230,
317 Serjeantson (R. M.) on mayors elected in churches,
xii. 148 Serjeantson family, ii. 250 Serjeantson family of Hanlith, Yorkshire, ii. 250 ;
iii. 133
Serle or Searle family of Epping, x. 8 Serle's Coffee-House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, vi. 9, 95,
158, 217 Sermon, caustic, by Rev. H. Welstead, 1711, viii.
207
Serpent bound to the cross, vi. 109, 172 Servat's Tower in Bucklersbury, xii. 330, 396 Servian surnames, their formation, x. 305 Service-tree, derivation of its name, ii. 166 Servius Sulpicius and Bret Harte, literary parallel,
viii. 205, 2P7, 357
Session, Court of, Scotland, its history, viii. 41 Seton of Andria (Baron) on book of Loughseur,
iv. 334. Directory of Foreign Peers, iv. 428.
Fastolf (Sir John), vi. 14. Great Seal of Scot-
land, iii. 312. Horse-racing in Scotland, iii. 450.
O'Connell's speech at the Hall of Tara, vi. 130.
Yachting, iv. 108
Setsure on Berenice, wife of Ptolemy III., iv. 193 Settlements, married woman's : Miss Watson,
viii. 148
Seven Dials, column removed, vii. 327 Seven Kings, place-name, xi. 89, 154, 234, 335, 376 Seventeenth -century firearms, iii. 89 Seventeenth-century inventories, viii. 389 ; ix. 53- Seventeenth-century MSS., ix. 201 Seventeenth-century phrases, ii. 425, 533 ; iii. 371 Seventeenth-century quotations, xii. 217 Severance as a proper name; iv. 148 Severn, river legend, xii. 488 ' Sevigne, une," explained, xi. 410, 495 Seville, maze at, ii. 508 ; iii. 54, 76 Seward (Anna), portraits of, ix. 171, 218 ; un- published poem, 285 Seward (Thomas), ' D.N.B.' on, vii. 122 Sewell (John)=Wilhelmina Robertson, xi. 290 Sewell (Rev. William), D.D., on ' The Clouds ' of
Aristophanes, v. 129 Sex before birth, determination of, i. 406 ; ii. 235,
313 Sexdecim Valles in Yorkshire topography, iii. 129,
175
Sexes, disproportion of, ii. 209, 315 Sexton, office held by one family 277 years, x. 246 Sexton's tombstone at Peterborough, i. 457 Seymour (F. T.) on character is fate, iv. 405 Seymour (H.)=Louise, Countess of Ponthieu, vii..
148
Seymour (Sir John), epitaph, i. 87, 137, 232 Seynt-pro-seynt, a wine, origin of the name,.
viii. 48 ; xii. 76, 158 Sh and sch in German and English, iii. 396 Shack, a wooden hut, American term, xii. 306 Shacklewell and Charles Lamb, iii. 288, 352, 414 Shacklewell Lane, alterations in, x. 126 Shadow shows, their literature, ix. 267 ; x. 257 Shadow-catcher = photographer, use of word,.
vii. 67, 158 Shadwell (Thomas), his 'Bury Fair,' i. 221;
eulogy of Pietro Reggio, ii. 270 ; version of
1 Tempest,' 330 Shairp (S. C.) on Shairp and Mordaunt families, xi..
308
Shairp family, xi. 308 Shakerley family, viii. 437
Shakespeare (Edimmd), brother of William, iii. 340 Shakespeare (John), bitmaker, x. 104 Shakespeare (John), of Lapworth, his will, viii.
486 ; x. 353 Shakespeare (John) of Layston, d. 1732, ix. 9, 178 ;.
x. 317
Shakespeare (Lieut.-Col.) in 1656, viii. 406 Shakespeare (Mary), her relationship to the poet,
i. 448 ; ii. 94 Shakespeare (T.), High Bailiff at Alcester, 1530, ix.
107 Shakespeare (Thomas), 1613, his biography, xi.
310 Shakespeare (W.), his knowledge of the classics,
i. 33 ; his knowledge of geography, i. 51 ; x.
346 ; epitaph by, i. 126 ; his grave and busts in
Stratford Church, i. 288, 331, 352, 416, 478 ;
ii. 195, 292 ; iii. 495 ; ix. 9, 195 ; early MS.
mention, i. 310 ; poems on, i. 409, 472 ; ii. 18 ;
his books, i. 465 ; ii. 464 ; his autographs, ii.
107, 248, 332 ; his wife's name, 389, 428, 473 ;
called " gentle," iii. 69, 169, 290 ; mythical
