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GENERAL INDEX.
.-Spirit and wine glasses, English, ii. 328, 378, 434
" Spiritual members," meaning of, c. 1620,
x. 490 : xi. 18 'Spiritual Songs,' 1685, an " Acrostick " in,
xii. 160
- Spitting and stamping the feet in the Litany,
iii. 148, 217, 294, 396 " Spon," " Spoon," meaning in place-names,
xi. 431, 499 Spong (Rosamond), d. 1840, her epitaph and
descent, iii. 269
- Spong family, viii. 389, 456 ; ix. 38
'Sponge cake, early mention of, 1808, x. 407 Sponge-plant, a substitute ior ginger, xii. 182
- Sponges, first used for domestic purposes, xi. 46
.Sponging houses in eighteenth century, i. 328,
414
Spoon folk-lore, x. 146, 196 Spooner (B. C.) on spon : spoon, xi. 431 Spooner (W.) on sonnet by Wordsworth, xii. 100 Spoons as a pledge of ownership, 1473, vi. 429 Sport of kings, origin jf the phrase, vii. 7, 138,
278
" Sportsman " Hotels, list of, v. 269 " Spot "=stain or besmirch in epitaph, 1652,
vii. 446 Spottiswood (Archbishop) and Lav,-, their
letter to James I., xi. 129 Spottiswoode & Co. and Ballantyne, Hanson
& Co., union of the printing houses, xii. 419 Sprig, 14th-century word, its meaning, ii. 509;
iii. 233
.Spring on owns : blithering, iii. 148 "Spruce " = " natty," use of the word, x. 489;
xi. 33
" Spruce girl," term used 1778, xi. 187
- Spur : wearing one spur, the custom, ii. 367, 471,
534
- .Spurgeon (C. H.), his knowledge of Greek, iii. 267,
476 : commemorative tablet, x. 280 ; memorials
to, 303, 386, 433
Spurrier- gate, hamlet of Yorkshire, v. 150, 234 Spurring (Richard yEneas), his book-plate, iv. 289 Spurway (C.) on families : duration in male line,
v. 355
.Spy, Turkish, in Paris, c. 1642. v. 489 ; vi. 55 .Spy shot at the Tower of London, 1914, x. 407 "Square," in "four square humours," vii. 287,
354 Square, the largest in London, vii. 470 ; viii. 52 ;
the smallest in London, viii. 126, 174, 298 Squash, slang term for crowded entertainment,
L169 Squires (E. E.) on duck's storm : goose's storm, xi.
188 ; John Owen of Hcmel Hempstead, school- master, iv. 9 ; Thomas Rogers of St. Giles-in-
the-Fields, vii. 428
Squires of England, stories relating to, iii. 227 " SS " on capital of pillar, Coventry, viii. 350,
397, 475 ; ix. 78
" Stackfreed," origin of the word, ix. 306 Stael (Baron de) in Scotland, ii. 387, 517 ; iii. 238 .Staff, curious, ebony and silver, 1803, v. 49, 138,
237. See also Staves. Stafford (Christopher), Rector of Bothal, 1691-
1730, iii. 469 .Stafford (E.) on Barbados filtering stone, xi. 310 ;
House of Normandy, 386 ; Scarborough warn- ing, 233 ; " Tune the old cow died of," 309 .Stafford (Thomas), his capture of Scarborough
Castle, 1557, xi. 233
Stafford (Sir Thomas) of Grafton, c. 1345, x. 149,
197, 260
Stafford family of Wokingham, iv. 268 Staffordshire charter, c. 1180, witnesses of,
iii. 349 Staffordshire poets, the birthplaces of, ix. 448,
492 Stage, Thackeray's connexion with, ii. 428, 494 ;
iii. 28, 74, 91, 132
Stage history : Wilson Barrett, iii. 225, 276 Stained glass, old, in Essex churches, ii. 361, 462 ;
iii. 41
Stainton (Elizabeth), Abbess (?), 1247, xi. 9, 72- Stair divorce, 1820, the co-respondent, ii. 489 ;
iii. 74, 174
Stamford, parish registers printed, vii. 148 ' Stamford Mercury,' earliest copies of, vii. 365,
430, 471 ; viii. 37 Stamp (T. M.) on authors of quotations wanted,
ii. 388 Stamp, red, intertwined initials, " J. W.,"
xii. 118
Stampe (W.), D.D., c. 1650, his mother, vi. 30, 96 Stamping the feet and spitting in the Litany,
iii. 148, 217, 294, 396 Stamps, farthing Victorian, x. 489 ; xi. 34, 93,
134, 176 ; inventions for perforating, iii. 183,
251 ; iv. 197, 298 Stamps and coins, British, x. 191, 235, 255, 276,
318
" Stamysonnail," meaning of the word, viii. 426 Standard, Royal, use of separate quarters, iv. 85 ;
and St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, vi. 106, 125 Standard-bearer, hereditary, of Scotland, litiga- tion concerning, i. 381 ; at Bosworth Field,
xi. 208 ' Standard Psalmist,' arranged by W. H. Birch,
c. 1857, iv. 348, 433 Standen (Sir Anthony and Anthony), and Armada
preparations, i. 388, 469 ; ii. 33 Standerwick (J. W. ) on Hanover Chapel, Peckham,
ii. 455 ; Rev. J. Samwell, Rev. J. Peacock,
iii. 9
' Stand it," use of the phrase, iv. 465, 536 Stanfield (Clarkson), R..A, his biograohv, iii. 409,
454 Stanhope ( ), Sir Walter Scott's friend, vii. 409 ;
viii. 116 Stanhope (Lady)=Capt. C. Morris, i. 348, 392,
450
Stanhope (John), London printer, 1664, iv. 48 Stanhope (Langdale),- Oxford graduate, 1728,
vii. 110
Stanion Church, " dun cow's rib " in, x. 168, 236 Stanley (Dean), his Easter Day sermons, v. 229 Stanley (John), Etonian, 1756, xi. 169, 235 Stanley Grove, Mortlake, engraving of, vii. 410 Stanton (E. M.), U.S. Secretary" of War, and
Dickens, v. 344, 452 Stanyan (Temple), 1677 (?)-1752, his marriage,
i. 189 Staple in place-names, its derivation, ii. 128, 191,
252 Staple of Calais, Guild of Merchants of, 1661,
iv. 507- Stapleton (A.) on barrow at Gotham, vi. 48
Bunyan family at Nottingham, vi. 267^-
Burial -entries of strangers, iii. 84 Children
with same Christian name, i. 112 Churches and
churchyards, inscriptions in, ii. 537 Coltman
