Scroggs, Chief-justice in 1678—the year of Titus Oates and the “Popish Plot.” A worthy successor to Jeffreys
Scudert, George de, French poet and novelist (1601-67)
Scudery, Madeleine, a woman of good qualities, but as a novelist exceedingly tedious (1607-1701)
Scythians, i. e. Russians. Scythia proper is the steppe-land between the Carpathian Mountains and the river Don in South-East Russia
Seged (see The Rambler, Nos. 204, 205)
Shafton, Sir Piercie (see Scott’s The Monastery)
Shaw, prize-fighter of immense strength and size, who enlisted in the Life Guards, and was killed at Waterloo
Sieyes, Abbe, one of the leaders of the Revolution, who retired on discovering that his colleagues were using him for their own end (d. 1836)
Simond, M. (the reference is to his Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain during the years 1810 and 1811, PP. 48-50)
Simonides, lived at Athens and Syracuse, and besides being a philosopher, was one of Greece’s most famous lyric poets (556-467 B.C.),