So´tenville (Mon. le baron de), father of Angélique, and father-in-law of George Dandin. His wife was of the house of Prudoterie, and both boasted that in 300 years no one of their distinguished lines ever swerved from virtue. “La bravoure n’y est pas plus hérdéitaire aux mâles que la chasteté aux femelles.” They lived with their son-in-law, who was allowed the honor of paying their debts, and receiving a snubbing every time he opened his mouth, that he might be taught the mysteries of the haut monde.--Molière, George Dandin (1668).
Soulis (Lord William), a man of prodigious strength, cruelty, avarice and treachery. Old Redcap gave him a charmed life, which nothing could affect “till threefold ropes of sand were twisted round his body.” Lord Soulis waylaid May, the lady-love of the heir of Branxholm, and kept her in durance till she promised to become his bride. Walter, the brother of the young heir, raised his father’s liegemen, and invested the castle. Lord Soulis having fallen into the hands of the liegemen, “they wrapped him in lead, and flung him into a caldron, till lead, bones, and all were melted.”--John Leyden (1802).
(The caldron is still shown in the Skelfhill, at Ninestane Rig, part of the range of hills which separates Liddesdale and Teviotdale.)
South (Squire), the Archduke Charles of Austria.--Arbuthnot, History of John Bull (1712).
Southampton (The earl of), the friend of the earl of Essex, and involved with him in the charge of treason, but pardoned.--Henry Jones, The Earl of Essex (1745).
Sovereigns of England (Mortual Days of the).
Sunday: six, viz., Henry I., Edward III., James I., William III., Anne, George I.
Monday: six, viz., Stephen, Henry IV., Henry V., Richard III., Elizabeth, Mary II. (Richard II. deposed).
Tuesday: four, viz., Richard I., Charles I., Charles II., William IV. (Edward II. resigned, and James II. abdicated).
Wednesday: four, viz., John, Henry III., Edward IV., Edward V. (Henry VI. deposed).