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LEFT SACHEVERELL 168 S ACK VILLE-W EST S. spontaneum — have fibers used in the manufacture of ropes, strings, mats, and paper. The leaves and seeds are employed for thatch, and the culms of some for native pens. In chemistry, a term formerly synony- mous with sugar, but now used almost exclusively to denote an invert sugar pre- pared from cane sugar by the action of acids. It is largely used by brewers. SACHEVERELL (sa-shev'ur-el) , HENRY, an English clergyman; born in Marlborough, England, in 1674. While preacher at St. Saviour's, Southwark, he in 1709 delivered two bitter sermons against dissent and accused the existing Whig ministry of jeopardizing the safety of the Church. He was impeached in the House of Commons, tried in the spring of 1710, and suspended for three years. This persecution secured him at once the character of a martyr, and helped to stimulate the already fierce passions which then divided the Whig and Tory party. Sacheverell became the popular hero of the hour; while the Godolphin (Whig) ministry was overthrown. Par- liament thanked him for his defense of the Church, and as soon as his suspension expired, Queen Anne presented him with the rich living of St. Andrew's, Holborn. Sacheverell, having no merit to keep him permanently before the public, now fell back into obscurity. He died in London, June 5, 1724. SACHS, HANS, the most distinguished meistersinger of Germany in the 16th HANS SACHS oentury, born in Nuremberg, Germany, Nov. 5, 1494. He learned the trade of a shoemaker, commenced business in his native city, married (1519), and pros- pered. He took lessons under one of the chief meistersingers of Nuremberg, and soon surpassed all his contemporaries. As a staunch follower of Luther, and an ardent advocate of his teachings, Sachs succeeded in imparting to his hymns a fervor which considerably aided the spread of the Reformation. A bronze statue in his memory was erected in 1874 at Nuremberg, where his house may still be seen. He died in Nuremberg, Jan. 19, 1576. SACK (Spanish, seco; French, sec, "dry"), formerly a general name for the different sorts of dry wines, more espe- cially the Spanish, which were first ex- tensively used in England in the 16th century. Also a measure or weight, vary- ing according to the article and country.. Also a term applied to the plundering of a town or city. SACKVILLE, THOMAS, Lord Buck- hurst and Earl of Dorset, an English statesman; born in Buckhurst, England, 1536. At Oxford and Cambridge he dis- tinguished himself by his Latin and Eng- lish poetry, and as a student of the Inner Temple he wrote, in conjunction with Thomas Norton, the tragedy of "Gor- boduc," or "Ferrex and Porrex" (pub- lished in 1561), remarkable as the first example in English of regular tragedy in blank verse. The "Mirror of Magis- trates," and the "Complaint of Henry, Duke of Buckingham," contain fine pas- sages. He took a prominent and credi- table part in some of the chief events of Elizabeth's reign. He was a member of the court which tried Mary Queen of Scots; he succeeded Lord Burleigh as lord high treasurer; and presided at the trial of the Earl of Essex. From 1587- 1588 he suffered imprisonment at the in- stigation of the queen's favorite Leices- ter. In 1566 he had succeeded to his father's ample estate; was raised to the peerage as Baron Buckhurst shortly af- terward; and James I. created him Earl of Dorset in 1604. He died in London, April 19, 1608, and was buried in West- minster Abbey. SACKVILLE-WEST, SIR LIONEL SACKVILLE, an English diplomatist; born July 19, 1827; was British minister to the United States in 1881-1888. He received his passports in the latter year from President Cleveland for having writ- ten a letter during the presidential cam- paign in which he advised a vote for the Democratic ticket as conducing to British interests, in answer to a correspondent who represented himself to be a natural- ized English citizen desiring political advice. He died Sept. 3, 1908.