46;
civil strife in, i. 101;
conquered by Ecgberht, 102;
attacked by northmen, 104;
conquered by them, 105;
English, under ealdorman AEthelred, 117;
annexed to Wessex, 118;
revolts against Eadwig, 137;
submits to Cnut, 143;
earldom of, 146

Mercians, their settlement, i. 37

Meres, Francis, v. 32, 41, 42

Merlin,
legend of, i. 247;
prophecies of, ii. 57, 119

Merton, school of, i. 225

Methodists, vii. 204-207, 210, 211;
their influence, viii. 46

Meulan captured by John of Bedford, iii. 39

Meulan, Robert, count of, i. 201

Mexico conquered by Cortes, iv. 329

Michiel, Giovanni, iv. 3

Middle English
settle round Leicester, i. 37;
become Christian, 72

Middle Saxons, i. 54

Middlesex elects Wilkes, viii. 5, 7

Middleton, Thomas, v. 42

Milan Decree, Napoleon's, viii. 181

Mile-end, meeting of Richard II. and the Kentishmen at, ii. 322

Milford Haven, Richard II. lands at, ii. 380

Millenary Petition, v. 151

Milton, John,
his early life, v. 98-101;
life at Horton, 302, 303;
early poems, 304;
_Comus_, 305, 306;
_Lycidas_, 332;
views on Church reform, 355;
change in his ecclesiastical views, vi. 32;
his sonnet on the Vaudois, 123;
his _Defence of the English People_, 231;
his later life, 232, 233;
_Paradise Lost_, 234-237;
_Areopagitica_, 305

Minden, battle of, vii. 264

Mines in England, i. 30; ii. 107; viii. 57

Minorca
ceded to England, vii. 142;
lost, 248;
restored, 307;
ceded to Spain, viii. 41

Mirebeau, Arthur of Britanny captured at, i. 268

Mise
of Amiens, ii. 68;
of Lewes, 71

Model, New. _See_ Army

_Modus Tenendi Parliamentum_, i. 275

Mogul Empire, the, vii. 234

Monaco, soldiers of, at Crecy, ii. 236

Monarchy,
growth of its strength, iii. 88, 89;
new policy, 89;
causes of its power, 111;
its position at Thomas Cromwell's death, iv. 7;
changes in its system under Elizabeth, 232;
James I.'s theory of, v. 169-171;
change in its relations to the country, 183, 184;
abolished, vi. 68;
proposal to restore it, 119-121;
restored, 152;
character after the Restoration, 172, 173, 183, 184;
character since the Revolution, vii. 60;
its insignificance under the House of Hanover, vii. 172-175.
_See_ King

Monasteri