as to give rise to the belief that they were m., he d. Among other works may be mentioned a description of the Arundel Marbles (1629), a treatise concerning the Jewish calendar (1646), and, specially, his Table Talk, pub. 1689, of which Coleridge said “there is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I can find in the same number of pages of any uninspired writer.”  He was likewise the author of various treatises on constitutional matters and the law of nations, including Mare Clausum (a Closed Sea), in defence of the property of England in its circumfluent seas.  Most of these were written in Latin.

Coll.  Works with Life, Dr. Wilkins (3 vols., folio, 1726), Aikin’s Lives of Selden and Ussher.

SELLAR, WILLIAM YOUNG (1825-1890).—­Scholar, b. in Sutherlandshire, his f. being factor to the Duke of Sutherland, ed. at Glasgow Univ. and Oxf., became in 1859 Prof. of Greek at St. Andrews and, in 1863, of Latin at Edin.  He pub. a work on the Roman Poets of the Republic (1863), followed by The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age.  Both of these hold a high place among modern works of scholarship.

SEMPILL, ROBERT (1530?-1595), SEMPILL, ROBERT (1595?-1659?), SEMPILL, FRANCIS (1616?-1682).—­Scottish poets, all belonging to the same family, the last two being f. and s. The first was mainly a satirist, was in Paris at the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and belonged to the extremist division of the Reforming party, The Regente’s Tragedy laments the death of Murray, Ane Complaint upon Fortoun, the fall of Morton.  The second Robert wrote The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper, a humorous description of old Scottish life.  Francis wrote occasional pieces.  The song She Rose and let me in, formerly attributed to him, is now known to be by Tom D’Urfey (q.v.).

SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864).—­Economist and essayist, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Compton Beauchamp, Berks, ed. at Eton and Oxf., studied law, and was called to the Bar in 1819.  He twice held the Professorship of Political Economy at Oxf., 1825-30 and 1847-52, rendered important service as a member of the Poor Law Commission of 1833, and wrote its Report.  S. holds a high position among English economists, and made many contributions to the literature of the science, including Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836).  He was, moreover, a writer of considerable versatility, his works in general literature including Essays on Fiction (1864), Historical and Philosophical Essays (1865), and specially his notes of conversations with many eminent persons, chiefly political, e.g., De Tocqueville, Thiers, and Guizot, which combine fulness of information with discretion; he also pub. journals of his travels in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, etc.