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its architecture in 1685, 314. Ra-vages of the great fire; resuscita-tion from its ruins; change in itscharacter, and in the habits of itscitizens, 345. 346. Magnificenceof its mansions in the olden lime,346.347. Patriotism of its ancientcitizens; splendour of its civicfestivities, 347. Its political, in-tellectual, monetary, and militaryimportance, 348. 349. Its train-bands and their services at criti-cal junctures; Buckingham andShaftesbury’s'city mansions, 349.350.

Fashionable LondonBlooms-bury Square, Monmouth’s man-sion in Soho Square, 350. South-ampton House, snipe shooting;Montague House (afterwards theBritish Museum); Saint James’s;Clarendon’s Palace 351. The Con-duit; the Peslfield; Covent Gar-den,352. Lincoln’s InnFields, 353.St. James’s Square, ib,

London Streets:—Absence ofpavements and drainage; shopsigns; dangers at night, 354. 355.Introduction of street lamps byHeming, 356.

Londoners; intercourse betweenthem and provincials in the 17thcentury, 304.

Low Countries. See Holland.

Luther, 76. 80.

Mackintosh, Sir James, 384. note.

Magistrates,Puritan; interfere withpopular sports, 161.

—, Royalist; persecute the Dis-senters, 175.

Magna Charla, 15.

Manchester; introduced into Crom-well’s parliamentary scheme, 133.Its privilege abolished, 138. Itsprosperity in the 17th century,335. Its manufactures and popu-lation, ib.

Marston Moor; victory of, 116.

Mary, Queen; effects of the cruel-ties of her reign upon publicfeeling, 227. 228.

Mary, Princess; her marriage withWilliam of Orange, 223.

Marylebone. See London, 344.

Matthias and Ktiiperdoling, 45.

Maurice of Nassau, 214.

Military system of England underCharles II., 285—299.

Militia; organised in aid of Monk,146. 147. Its constitution andcomplement, 286. Party and po-pular sentiments Inspired by it,287. 288.

Milton, John; ineffectually appealsagainst a censorship, 245. Hispolitical works burned at Oxford,266.

Mines and Minerals in England; atthe deathofCharlesII.,311. Earlyimportance of the tin mines ofCornwall, and quantity producedabout 1685, 311. Account of thecopper mines in 1685,311. Worth-lessness of the salt formerly ma-nufactured in England, 311.312.English iron works in 1685, 312.Importance of the English coalmines, and former and presentconsumption of coal, 312. 313.

Mings, Sir Christopher; bis heroism,299.

Ministers; limited nature of theirresponsibility in the 17ib century,269. Their official incomes, andcorruption, 303. 305.

Misgovernment; importance ofconstitutional checks upon,33.34.

Mob; when first heard of, 253.

Moliere, 396.

Monarchies, limited, of the middleages; their nature, 27. 28. Ge-neral subsidence into absolutemonarchies, 41. English mo-narchy an exception to this rule,42.