Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . sidence. He took th<! comniand of thearmy which was to act in s\ipport of .Maria Theresain conjunction with a Dutch anil Austrian force, buthad already lost ground strategically in presenceof Noailles, when George II. came to take com-maml in jierson. Stair showed his usual courageat petlingen. but after the victory was allowed toresign. He died at Qiieensberry House, Edinburgh,9th May 1747. See the Annals by Graham. Stalactites, Stalagmites. See Cave, p. 34. Stall, the technical English name for the seatsin churches reserveil
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . sidence. He took th<! comniand of thearmy which was to act in s\ipport of .Maria Theresain conjunction with a Dutch anil Austrian force, buthad already lost ground strategically in presenceof Noailles, when George II. came to take com-maml in jierson. Stair showed his usual courageat petlingen. but after the victory was allowed toresign. He died at Qiieensberry House, Edinburgh,9th May 1747. See the Annals by Graham. Stalactites, Stalagmites. See Cave, p. 34. Stall, the technical English name for the seatsin churches reserveil f(n- the clergy and choir, andusually lining the choir or chancel on both shies,sometimes in two ur more rows. In cathedralsand other large churches tbev are generally en-closed at the back wilh a high screen, anil areoften Kurmounted with pinnacled canojiios of taber-nacle work, the backs and arms being usually carved in a more or less ornate manner. At thewest end are often return stalls, facing east, forthe dean, warden, chancellor, or other stalls, WL-stminstur Abbey. In Henry Chapel (1502-20), WestminsterAbbey, the dark oak choir stalls, with their finely-carved Misereres (), are appropriated to theKnights of the Bath, and the lower seats to theirsquires; and each stall bears its occuiiantsarmorial hearings in brass, with a swoni andhannerabove. At Winchester, Chester, Windsor,and Kings College, Cambridge, are also lineexamples of stalls. Stallbaiiiii. Gottfried (1793-1861), professorat Leipzig, edited Herodotus, Plato (12 ), and other classics. StalybridgO, a cotton town of Cheshire andLancashire, with machine-shops, i*i:c., if, miles N. of Manchester, ll made a munici]ialborough in 1857, a parliamentary borough in of the former (1851) 20,7li0; (1891) •.ti,783;of the latter (1891) 44,135. Stamboiil. See Constantinople. Staiiibiilofr. Stephan Nikolok, was born, the son of an innkeeper, in185
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