entertained by many Eastern nations
and by the Druids, ib.; Welsh system of, explained by Sharon Turner,
193; believed in Mexico, 194; Plutarch's description of, ib.

MICHAEL ANGELO, anecdote of, i. 258.

MIGNARD, a celebrated painter, curious anecdote concerning, i. 258,
259.

MILTON, his controversy with Salmasius and Morus conducted with
mutual revilings, i. 152, 153; absurdly criticised by Bentley,
370-373; indebted to Andreini for the first idea of Paradise Lost,
ii. 141; his works suffered at the hands of both Royalist and
Republican licensers, 223; his Areopagitica, 225; a passage in his
History of England suppressed, but preserved in a pamphlet, 448; his
Comus escaped the destruction of the Bridgewater papers, 451; the
story of him and the Italian lady, probably an invention of George
Steevens, iii. 299; copied from a French story purporting to be of
the 15th century, 300.

MILLINERS'bills, ancient and modern, ii. 39.

MIMES, Arch-mime followed the body of Vespasian at his funeral, iii.
120.

MIMI, an impudent race of buffoons, ii. 120; harlequin, a Roman
mime, 121, and note.

MINISTERS, origin of the term as applied to the pastors of Christian
churches, i. 128; palaces built by, notices of several, iii.
186-192; Sir Robert Walpole's remarks on the imprudence of their
erecting such, 193; yet builds one himself, ib.

MINSTRELS, ancient and modern, pickpockets, ii. 146, note.

MISHNA, see TALMUD.

MISSALS, gross adornments of, i. 366.

MODERN stories and plots, many derived from the East, i. 111, 112.

MODES of salutation in various nations, ii. 12.

MONK, General, anecdote of him and his wife, i. 468; his conduct
towards Charles II. at his landing, iii. 389.

MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley, suppression of her MSS., ii. 450.

MONTFLEURY, a French actor, death of, i. 248.

MONTLUC, Bishop of Valence, his negotiations for the election of the
Duke of Anjou as King of Poland, iii. 349-362.

MORALIITIES, see MYSTERIES and MORALITIES.

MORALITY of "Every Man," referred by Percy to the class of tragedy,
ii. 278.

MORE, Doctor, his extravagant Platonic opinions, i. 216.

MORUS, controversy of Salmasius with Milton, continued by, with
mutual abuse, i. 153.

MUSIC, use of, in discovering indispositions by the voice, i. 151;
influence of, in the cure of diseases, 269-271; ef