o Louis XIV., 314.

MARIA THERESA (of Austria), character of, 395.
her attachment for the Duke of Lorraine, 395.
marriage of, 398.
ascends the Austrian throne, 415.
solicitations of to foreign powers, 417.
her apparent doom, 421.
consents to part with Glogau, 424.
a son born to her, 426.
desire of that her husband should obtain the imperial crown, 427.
her coronation at Presburg, 429.
address of to the diet, 431.
reinforcements of, 436.
ambitious dreams of, 439.
forbids the conference for the relief of Prague, 440.
attempt of to evade her promise to Sardinia, 446.
arrogance of excites indignation of the other powers, 449.
rouses the Hungarians, 450.
recovers Bohemia, 450.
interview of the English ambassador with, 454.
signs the treaty of Dresden, 458.
indignation of at peace being signed by England, 460.
chagrin of, 461.
her energetic discipline, 462.
secures the friendship of the Marchioness of Pompadour, 465
reproaches towards England, 466.
her diplomatic fib, 468.
victories of, 475.
loses Russia and Sweden, 480.
recovers the cooeperation of Russia, 481.
children of, 486.
letter of to Maria Antoinette, 488.
letter to Frederic desiring peace, 489.
charge to her son, 490.
death of, 491.
fate of her children, 491.

MARY ANNE (of Spain) affianced to the dauphin of France, 372.
insulting rejection of, 373.

MARGARET (of Bohemia), engagement of, 46.
marriage and flight of, 49.
divorce of, 49.

MARGARET, celebration of the nuptials of, 314.

MARK OF BRANDENBURG, taken possession of by Gustavus Adolphus, 281.

MARTINETS thrown from the palace by the mob, 328.

MASSACRE, the, of St. Bartholomew, 171.

MATHEW HENRY (Count of Thurn), leader of the Protestants, 234.
convention called by, 236.

MATTHIAS (of Hungary), invasion of Austria by, 75.
death of, 79.

MATTHIAS, character of, 201.
chosen leader of the revolters in the Netherlands, 202.
increasing popularity of, 203.
announces his determination to depose Rhodolph III., 204.
his demand that Rhodolph should abdicate, 205.
distrust of by the Protestants, 205.
arrest of the Lord of Inzendorf by, 206.
reluctance of to sign the conditions, 207.
elected king, 207.
haughtiness of towards the Austrians, 208.
political reconciliation between Rhodolph III. and, 219.
march of against Leopold, 221.
limitations affixed to the offer of the crown to, 222.