TENTH SEEIES.
181
Minstrels and players at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
xii. 222
Minstrelsy : ' English Minstrelsy,' 1810, and Sir W. Scott, ix. 170, 256
Mint, Keeper of the, bond and sureties for the office, x. 467
Mint, royal, at Leeds, Yorkshire, iii. 489 ; iv. 51
Minuet, pronunciation of the word, vi. 266, 311
Minuet named after Lady Coventry, v. 307, 355, 518
Minus and plus, use of the terms, vi. 27
Miracle play, ' St. Christian,' c. 1505, xi. 230
Miraculous births, viii. 208
Mirages observed in British Isles, vii. 390, 453, 495 ; viii. 155
Miramoline, a ghost-word, xi. 45
Miranda on Major Monro, iii. 487. Pepy's ' Diary,' and 365 children, i. 68
Mirfield book society, i. 368
Mirror, Dr. Dee's magic, i. 16
Misanthropy, Lord Byron's antidote against, viii. 126
Miserere carvings, v. 29
Misicks, 1691, meaning of the word, v. 128, 174, 218
Misprints : in 'Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,' i. 4, 97; in Thoms's ' Survey of London,' Stow's edition, 205; and other typographical errors, ix. 123, 493
Missal, use of the word, iv. 34, 75, 138
1 Missal, The,' picture in the New Gallery, iii. 469
Missing link, the; ii. 249, 317
Missing word, x. 327, 398
Missirini (Melchiore), his ' Life of Bartolozzi,' i. 289
Mist (Nathaniel), his widow Anne, c. 1735, vii. 187
Mr., use of the prefix, iv. 67 ; degradation of the title, 134
Mistletoe, in church at Chalons-sur-Marne, i. 66 ; its curative properties, x. 506
Mistletoe on Agnes and Ann, viii. 507. Almanac, c. 1744, iv. 486. Betterment, v. 166. " Cera Panis," vi. 113. Comether, its meaning, xii. 231. Copyright in letters, v. 314. Cumber- land dialect, iv. 294. Dunmow flitches, vi. 486. Feudal system, i. 353. Funeral invitations in Scotland, v. 487. Goldsborough shield, viii. 271. Greig (Admiral Sir Samuel), i. 433. Hart- ley (William), i. 156, 253. Howson's case, vii. 46. Hutton Hall, vi. 276. L.S., ii. 517. Male, legal word, ii. 517. Manor Court of Edwin- stpwe, ii. 353. March 25 as New Year's Day, vii. 15. Men of family as parish clerks, viii. 517. Nine maidens, ii. 235. Parish bull and boar, vii. 126. ' Passive Resister," viii. 316. Proverbs in Waverley Novels, ii. 37. Rewman, vi. 456. Royal Oak Day, iv. 132. Searchers, 18. Stephenson (Governor) of Bengal, Tideswell and Tideslow, ii. 152. Washington Medal, vi. 232. Yates (Maghull), x. 14.
Mistrigris on dog training, iv. 537 Mitchel & Finlay, eighteenth-century bankers, i.
310, 374 ; ix. 497 Mitchell (Major A. J.) on Boer War of 1881, i. 226.
Regiments at Boomplatz, ii. 148 Mitchell (C. J.) on war medals, iii. 247 Mitchell (L. O.) on parish sundial, i. 208 Mitchell (S.), history of High Peak and Scarsdale,
iv. 88
Mitchell (Col. T.), longest-service Volunteer, ii. 17 Mitchell ( )= Frances Sarah Pell, v. 369
Mitchiner (J. H.) on Fifth-Monarchy Men, vii.
334. London and Birmingham Railway, viii.
292. Quotations, English and Spanish, ii. 308
Mite, a coin, its history, viii. 69, 138, 454
Mitis, etymology of the word, vii. 68,' 115
Mitton (G. E.) on Fingal and Diarmid, ii. 87
Mivart's, now Claridge's Hotel, its history, ix. 47
Mlech=a barbarian in Hindu, vi. 32
Moaler lamp, origin of the word, vii. 127, 198
Mobarship, 1467-8, its meaning, vii. 267
Mocassin, its pronunciation, ii. 225, 495
Mocock, Indian dialect word, its meaning, viii. 107
' Modern London,' 1804, its value, iii. 169
' Modern Ship of Fools,' satire published 1807, xi.
429
- Modern Universal British Traveller,' v. 69, 97
Moffatt (Robert), c. 1565, vi. 149 Mohammed, date of battle of Bedr, ii. 409, 475 ;
his will, iii. 368 Mohammedan and Christian chronology, xi. 107,
212
Mohammedanism in Japan, vii. 167 Mohock, use of the word, 1772, vii. 267 Mohun (Major), actor, and Charles II., ii. 485 Moira (Lord), and the United Irishmen, iv. 28 " Moiree Melanique," method of engraving, iv. 29 Moke, a donkey, vii. 68, 115, 257, 415, 473 ; viii.
257
Mokes in netting, explained, vii. 260 Moles, dead, exposed on willows, x. 149, 457 Molesey, its manors, ix. 317
Moliere, inscription on his statue, i. 213 ; verse translations, ii. 448, 516 ; iii. 55 ; on opium, xi. 88, 154 ; record price for his comedies, xii. 47 Molle (John), translator of the ' Living Librarie,
iv. 425, 494
Molle, its various meanings, iv. 55 Molloy (Fitzgerald), ' Romance of Irish Stag,' ii.
247
Mollusca and moon, viii. 186, 317 Moloker, Yiddish for a silk hat, x. 385, 435, 477 Mplony (A.) on curious Christian names, i. 171. Dilliana, iv. 7. Fannings of co. Clare, ix. 175. Molony (Mrs. Jane), vii. 187. Pronty : Bronte, xii. 210. St. Helena Medal, ii. 95 Molony (Mrs. Jane), painter, d. 1839, vii. 187 Molubdinous slowbelly, meaning of the term, i. 13 Molusio, ghost- word, ix. 126 Momba, South African snake, vi. 10, 115, 152,
218, 294 Mompesson (Col.), Lieutenant- Governor of Isle of
Wight, x. 29
Mon droit=right hand, the interpretation, vi. J Mona and cognate names, their interpretation,
vii. 101 Monaci (Dr. Ernesto), his ' Crestomazia Italiana,
iii. 447
Monaco, prison farce in, ix. 507 Monaco (Prince of), petition to Carnot, vii. 125,
244 ; his letters, viii. 83
Monadnock, American pseudonym, viii. 289 Monaghan press, 1787-96, vii. 188, 251 Monastic and parochial churches combined, xii.
168
Monastic estates, their extent, x. 250, 354 Monastic scriptorium, viii. 429 Monck, Monke, or Monk family, iv. 449 Monckton (Horace W.) on " Posui Deum adju- torem meum," vii. 29. St. Kilda colds, vii. 307 Monckton (L.) on police uniforms : omnibuses,
iii. 75 Mondanite (Madame) at Bale Cathedral, ii. 149
