Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, fourth Duke of, iii. 140, 143-145
Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of (_see_ Rochester), v. 193, 204-207
Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of (_see_ Hertford), iv. 46; Protector, 47; his policy, 48, 53, 54; relations with Scotland, 52; victory at Pinkie Cleugh, 513; revolts against, 55; his misrule, 56; fall, 57; beheaded, 65
Somerset, Charles Seymour, sixth Duke of, vii. 21, 146
Somerset, Frances, Countess of. _See_ Howard
Sophia, Electress of Hanover, vii. 103, 144
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, first Earl of (_see_ Wriothesley), iv. 47
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of, v. 41, 43
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, fourth Earl of, vi. 193, 244
Southwark burnt by William the Conqueror, i. 165; Bishop Beaufort's palace at, attacked, iii. 44
Spain, its relations with Aquitaine and France, ii. 281, 282; Edward III.'s policy in, 282, 283, 287; its growth under Ferdinand and Isabel, iii. 186; its greatness under Philip II., iv. 325-327; possessions in the New World, 329; ruin of its power, 366; its relations with James I., v. 212-214, 226, 227, 230-233; decline, vi. 113, 190; Cromwell's war with, 117; relations with Charles II., 187; with Lewis XIV., 249, 250; joins the Grand Alliance, vii. 49; dispute for the succession in, 90, 92-94, 98, 99; English descent on, 118; Peterborough's campaign in, 126; attempts to regain its lost possessions, 186-188; end of the succession quarrel, 188; relations with Austria, 199, 200; with France, 213-216; efforts to regain monopoly of trade in America, 216, 217; war with England, 219, 306; cedes Florida, 307; league with France and America, viii. 30; mastered by Napoleon, 185; rises against him, 186; Wellesley's campaigns in, 187, 188, 199, 200; the French driven from, 202
Spencer, George John, second Earl, viii. 104, 156
Spice Islands conquered by England, viii. 112
Spottiswood, Archbishop of St. Andrews, v. 326
Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, vi. 321
Stair, John Dalrymple, second Earl of, vii. 229
Stamford, one of the Five Boroughs, i. 117; submits to Eadward the Elder, 119
Stamford, Henry Grey, first Earl of, vi. 5
Standard, battle of the, i. 217; Harold's, at Senlac, 163, 164; of Wessex, the Golden Dragon, 96, 163