Mary of Guise, queen of Scotland, iv. 23, 25, 28; Regent, 112; relations with the Protestants, 118, 168; with France, 170; death, 176
Mary of Modena, wife of James II., vi. 278; vii. 29, 34
Mary, daughter of Henry VII., iii. 232; iv. 46
Massachusetts, first settlement in, v. 310; first charter granted to, 311; protests against English taxation, vii. 326; proposes a congress, 330; its assembly dissolved, viii. 14; resists the tea-duty, 15; its charter altered, 18; takes up arms against England, 19; repudiates English government, 23; refuses to join in war against England, 203, 204
Massey, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, vii. 25
Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, i. 159
Matilda or Maud (Edith), wife of Henry I., i. 198-200, 246
Matilda or Maud, daughter of Henry I., i. 208, 213, 219, 220
Maximilian I. of Austria, iii. 147; marries Mary of Burgundy, 151; war with Lewis XI., _ib._; treaty with him, 170; supports Perkin Warbeck, 180; relations with France, 232-234; death, 239; policy towards Luther, iv. 18
May's _History of the Long Parliament_, v. 72
Mayenne, Charles of Lorraine, Duke of, iv. 367, 372
Mayor of a town, successor of portreeve, i. 303; right of electing, 315; of Oxford, 310
Measures, uniformity of, enacted by Great Charter, i. 352
Melfort, John Drummond, first Earl of, vii. 17
Melrose, Cuthbert at, i. 75; _Chronicle_ of, 273; English raid on, iv. 29
Melville, Andrew, v. 133, 136, 138, 164, 165
Merchant Adventurers, English, in Flanders, iii. 155; of London, iv. 283, 284
Merchant-gild, the, i. 297, 300; struggle with craft-gilds, 316-318; of London, 319
Mercia under Penda, i. 66, 70-73; submits to Oswiu, 73; becomes Christian, _ib._; its revival under Wulfhere, 78, 85; struggle with Wessex, 90-91; greatness under Offa, 97, 98; struggle with Wales, ii. 46; civil strife in, i. 101; conquered by Ecgberht, 102; attacked by northmen, 104; conquered by them, 105; English, under ealdorman Æthelred, 117; annexed to Wessex, 118; revolts against Eadwig, 137; submits to Cnut, 143; earldom of, 146
Merlin, legend of, i. 247; prophecies of, ii. 57, 119
Methodists, vii. 204-207, 210, 211; their influence, viii. 46
Meulan captured by John of Bedford, iii. 39
Middle English settle round Leicester, i. 37; become Christian, 72