ge I am experte in poetry,
As the monke of Bury, floure of eloquence.

Stephen Hawes, _The Passe-Tyme[TN-21] of Plesure_ (1515).

=Monk of Westminister=, Richard, of Cirencester, the chronicler
(fourteenth century).

This chronicle, _On the Ancient State of Britain_, was first brought to
light in 1747, by Dr. Charles Julius Bertram, professor of English at
Copenhagen; but the original being no better known than that of Thomas
Rowley's poems, published by Chatterton, grave suspicions exist that Dr.
Bertram was himself the author of the chronicles.

=Monks= (_The Father of_), Ethelwold, of Winchester (*-984).

_Monks_, _alias_ Edward Leeford, a violent man, subject to fits. Edward
Leeford, though half-brother to Oliver Twist, was in collusion with Bill
Sykes, to ruin him. Failing in this, he retired to America, and died in
jail.--C. Dickens, _Oliver Twist_ (1837).

=Monkbarns= (_Laird of_), Mr Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary.--Sir W.
Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George III.).

=Mon'ker and Nakir= [_Na.keer'_], the two examiners of the dead, who put
questions to departed spirits respecting their belief in God and
Mahomet, and award their state in after-life according to their
answers.--_Al Kor[^a]n._

"Do you not see those spectres that are stirring the burning coals?
Are they Monker and Nakir come to throw us into them?"--W.
Beckford, _Vathek_ (1786).

=Monmouth=, the surname of Henry V. of England, who was born in that town
(1388, 1413-1422).

[Asterism] Mon-mouth is the _mouth of the Monnow_.

_Monmouth_ (_The duke of_), commander-in-chief of the royal army.--Sir
W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).

[Asterism] The duke of Monmouth was nicknamed "The Little Duke," because
he was diminutive in size. Having no name of his own, he took that of
his wife, "Scott," countess of Buccleuch. Pepys says: "It is reported
that the king will be tempted to set the crown on the Little Duke"
(_Diary_, seventeenth century).

=Mon'ema=, wife of Quia'ra, the only persons of the whole of the
Gu[=a]rani race who escaped the small-pox plague which ravaged that part
of Paraguay. They left the fatal spot, and settled in the Modai woods.
Here they had one son, Yer[=u]ti, and one daughter, Mooma, but Qui[=a]ra
was killed by a jag[)u]ar before the latter was born. Mon[)e]ma left
the Mondai woods, and went to live at St. Jo[)a]chin, in Paraguay, but
soon died from the effects of a house