marries his cousin, Rose
Fleming.--C. Dickens, _Oliver Twist_ (1837).

=Mayor of Garratt= (_The_). Garratt is between Wandsworth and Tooting. The
first mayor of this village was elected towards the close of the
eighteenth century, and the election came about thus: Garratt Common had
often been encroached on, and in 1780 the inhabitants associated
themselves together to defend their rights. The chairman was called
_Mayor_, and as it happened to be the time of a general election, the
society made it a law that a new "mayor" should be elected at every
general election. The addresses of these mayors, written by Foote,
Garrick, Wilks, and others, are satires and political squibs. The first
mayor of Garratt was "Sir" John Harper, a retailer of brickdust; and the
last was "Sir" Harry Dimsdale, a muffin-seller (1796). In Foote's farce
so called, Jerry Sneak is chosen mayor, son-in-law of the landlord
(1763).

=Mayors= (_Lord_) who have founded noble houses:

_Lord Mayor._
AVELAND (_Lord_), from Sir Gilbert Heathcote 1711
BACON (_Lord_), from Sir Thomas Cooke, draper 1557
BATH (_Marquis of_), from Sir Rowland Heyward, cloth-worker 1570
BRAYBROOKE (_Lord_), from Sir John Gresham, grocer 1547
BROOK (_Lord_), from Sir Samuel Dashwood, vintner 1702
BUCKINGHAM (_Duke of_), from Sir John Gresham, grocer 1547
COMPTON (_Lord_), from Sir Wolston Dixie, skinner 1585
CRANBOURNE (_Viscount_), from Sir Christopher Gascoigne 1753
DENBIGH (_Earl of_), from Sir Godfrey Fielding, mercer 1452
DONNE (_Viscount_), from Sir Gilbert Heathcote 1711
FITZWILLIAM (_Earl of_), from Sir Thomas Cooke, draper 1557
PALMERSTON (_Lord_), from Sir John Houblon, grocer 1695
SALISBURY (_Marquis of_), from Sir Thomas Cooke, draper 1557
WARWICK (_Earl of_), from Sir Samuel Dashwood, vintner 1702
WILTSHIRE (_Earl of_), from Sir Godfrey Boleine 1457
(queen Elizabeth was his granddaughter).

=Maypole= (_The_), the nickname given to Erangard Melousine de
Schulemberg, duchess of Kendal, the mistress of George I., on account of
her leanness and height (1719, died, 1743).

=Mazarin of Letters= (_The_), D'Alembert (1717-1783).

=Mazarine= (_A_), a common council-man of London; so called from the
mazarine-blue silk go