in Europe who received the Christian faith, iv. 63. Is made the fecond by descent from Marius, 64. After a long reign bu- ried at Gloucester, ibid.
Lucifer, the first prelate angel, i. 89.
Lucretius, his Epicurifm, published the second time by Cicero, i.
Lud, walls about Trinovant, and calls it Caer-Lud, Lud's town, iv. 23.
Ludgate, whence named, iv. 23.
Ludiken, the Mercian, going to avenge Bernulf, is surprised by the Eaft-angles and put to the fword, iv. 161.
Lupicinus, fent over deputy into this ifland by Julian the emperor, but foon recalled, iv. 74.
Lupus, bishop of Troyes, affiftant to Germanus of Auxerre, in the reformation of the British church, iv. 90.
Luther, a monk, one of the first reformers, i. 206. His vehement writing against the errours of the Roman church commended, 232.
Lutherans, an errour charged upon them, iv. 262.
Lycurgus, how he fecured the crown of Lacedemon to his family, iii. 189. Makes the power of the people fuperiour to that of the king, 240.
MADAN, fucceeds his father Locrine, iv. 12.
Magiftrates, civil, to be obeyed as God's vicegerents, i.95. Should take care of the public fports and feftival paftimes, 121, 122. Their particular and general end, 133. Tenure of, ii. 271. Effeminate ones not fit to govern, 447, 448. Not to ufe force in religious matters, 324, 343. Reafons against their fo doing, 337. Should fee that confcience be not inwardly violated, 342. Maglaunus, duke of Albania, marries Gonoril eldest daughter of king Leir, iv. 15.
Maglocune, furnamed the Ifland Dragon, one of the five that reigned toward the beginning of the Saxon heptarchy, iv. 114. His wicked character, ibid.
Magus, fon and fucceffor of Samothes, whom fome fable to have been the first peopler of this ifland, iv. 3.
Maimonides, his difference between the kings of Ifrael and those of Judah, iii. 144.
Malcolm, fon of Kened king of Scots, falling upon Northumber- land, is utterly overthrown by Uthred, iv. 221. Some fay by Iric, 227.
Malcolm, fon of the Cumbrian king, made king of Scotland in the room of Macbeth, iv. 244.
Malcolm, king of Scotland, coming to vifit king Edward, fwears brotherhood with Tofti the Northumbrian, iv. 246. Afterward in his abfence haraffes Northumberland, ibid.
Mandubratius, fon of Immanuentius, favoured by the Trinobantes against Caffibelan, iv. 36.
Manifefto of the lord protector of England, &c. against the depre- dations of the Spaniards, v. 12. In Latin, vi. 90.
Marcus Aurelius, ready to lay down the government, if the fenate or people required it, iii. 250.
Marganus, the fon of Gonoril, depofes his aunt Cordeilla, iv. 16. Shares the kingdom with his coufin Cunedagius, invades him, but is met and overcome by him, ibid.
Marganus, the fon of Archigallo, a good king. iv. 22.
Marinaro, a learned Carmelite, why reproved by cardinal Pool, ii. 167.
Marius, the fon of Arviragus, is faid to have overcome the Picts, and flain their king Roderic, iv. 64.
Marriage, not properly fo, where the most honeft end is wanting, i. 350. The fulfilling of conjugal love and happiness, rather than the remedy of luft, 353. Love and peace in families broke by a forced continuance of matrimony, 357. May endanger the life of either party, 371. Not a mere carnal coition, 373. Compared with other covenants broken for the good of men, 373, 374. No more a command than divorce, ii. 13. The words of the inftitution, how to be underflood, 22. The mife ries in marriage to be laid on unjust laws, 51. Different defi- nitions of it, 141-144. The grievance of the mind more to be regarded in it, than that of the body, ibid. Called the covenant of God, 153. The ordering of it belongs to the civil power, 79. Popes by fraud and force have got this power, 79, 80. Means of preferving it holy and pure, 83. Allowed by the ancient fathers, even after the vow of fingle life, 87. Christ intended to make no new laws relating to it, 91. The properties of a true christian marriage, 99. What crimes diffolve it, 100. Expofitions of the four chief places in Scripture treating of, 111. A civil ordinance or houfhold contract, 370. The folemnizing of it recovered by the parliament from the encroachment of priefts, 371. See Divorce.
Martia, wife of king Guitheline, faid to have inftituted the law called Marchen Leage, iv. 20.
Martin V, pope, the firft that excommunicated for reading he- retical books, ii. 293.
Martinus, made deputy of the British province, failing to kill Paulus, falls upon his own fword, iv. 73.
Martyr, Peter, his character of Martin Bucer, ii. 67. His opinion concerning divorce, 233.
Martyrdom, the nature of it explained, iii. 83, 84.
Martyrs, not to be relied on, i. 241.
Mary, queen of Scots, her death compared with king Charles's, iii.
Massacre, of Paris, owing to the peace made by the protestants with Charles IX, ii. 302. Irish, more than 200,000 proteftants - murdered in it, 364.
Matrimony, nothing more difturbs the whole life of a Christian than an unfit one, i. 359. See Marriage.
Matth. xix. 3, 4, &c., explained, ii. 170.
Maximianus Herculeus, forced to conclude a peace with Caraufius, and yield him Britain, iv. 70.
Maximus, a Spaniard, ufurping part of the empire, is overcome at length and flain by Theodofius, iv, 76. Maximus a friend of Gerontius, is by him fet up in Spain against Constantine the ufurper, 78.
Mazarine, cardinal, Oliver's letters to him, iv. 388, 407, 451, 452, 453, 457. Richard the protector's, v. 2, 7, 9.
Medina Celi, duke of, letter of thanks to him for his civil treatment of the English fleet, iv. 336.
Mellitus, Juftus, and others fent with Auftin to the conversion of the Saxons, iv. 121. He converts the Eaft-Saxons, 123. St. Paul's church in London built for his cathedral by Ethelred, as that of Rochester for Juftus, ibid.
Mempricius, one of Brutus's council, perfuades him to haften out of Greece, iv. 8.
Mempricius and Malim, fucceed their father Madan in the kingdom, iv. 12. Mempricius treacherously flays his brother, gets fole pof- feffion of the kingdom, reigns tyrannically, and is at last devoured by wolves, ibid.
Mercia, kingdom of, first founded by Crida, iv. 115.
Mercian laws, by whom instituted, iv. 20.
Merianus, an ancient British king, iv. 22.
Micah, his lamentation for the lofs of his Gods, &c. iii. 66, 67. Military Skill, its excellence confifts in readily fubmitting to com- manders orders, i. 81.
Militia, not to be difpofed of without confent of parliament, ii. 470.
Milles, Hermann, letter to, i. xix.
Milton, the author, his account of himself, i. 223, &c. vi. 380, 401. of his complaint in his eyes, i. xxiv.
Mimes, what they were, i. 216, 217.
Minifter, different from the magiftrate, in the excellence of his end, i. 140. Duties belonging to his office, ibid. Whether the peo- ple are judges of his ability, 255.
Minifters, have the power of binding and loofing, i. 93. Their la- bours reflected on, by licenfing the prefs, 313. How dif- tinguished in the primitive times from other chriftians, iii. 390. Minifters, Prefbyterian, account of their behaviour, when the bi- fhops were preached down, iii. 126.
Minocan, an ancient British king, iv. 23.
Mithridates, why he endeavoured to ftir up all princes against the Romans, iii. 116.
Mollo, the brother of Kedwalla, purfued, befet, and burnt in a house whither he had fled for fhelter, iv. 143. His death re- venged by his brother, ibid.
Molmutine Laws, what and by whom established in England, iv. 17. Monarchy, faid to have been firft founded by Nimrod, ii. 470. The ill confequences of readmitting it, iii. 419, &c.
Monk, general, letter to him concerning the establishing of a free commonwealth, iii. 398.
Monks, invented new fetters to throw on matrimony, ii. 69. Du bious relaters in civil matters, and very partial in ecclefiaftic, iv. 79, 80. One thousand one hundred and fifty of them massacred,
124. Morcar, the fon of Algar, made earl of Northumberland in the room of Tofti, iv. 248. He and Edwin duke of the Mercians put Tofti to flight, 252. They give battle to Harold Harvager, king of Norway, but are worsted, 254. They refuse to set up Edgar, and at length fwear fidelity to duke William of Nor- mandy, 257.
Mordred, Arthur's nephew, faid to have given him in a battle his death wound, iv. 113.
More, Alexander, Defence of the Author against, v. 269. Ac- count of him, vi. 370.
Morindus, the fon of Elanius by Tangueftela, a valiant man, but infinitely cruel, iv. 20. Is devoured by a fea monfter, ibid. Mofco, fertility of the country between this city and Yeraflave, iv. 276. Said to be bigger than London, ibid. Method of travelling thence to the Cafpian, ibid. Siege of it raised, and peace made with the Poles, by the mediation of king James, 298. Mofcovia, defcription of the empire, iv. 273. Exceffive cold in winter there, ibid.. Succeffion of its dukes and emperors, 287, &c.
Mofes, inftructed the Jews from the book of Genesis, what fort of government they were to be subject to, i. 79. Defigned for a lawgiver, but Chrift came among us as a teacher, 197. Of- fended with the prophane speeches of Zippora, fent her back to her father, 363. Why he permitted a bill of divorce, ii. 42. An interpreter between God and the people, iii. 155. Did not exercise an arbitrary power, 166.
Moulin, Dr. remarks on his argument for the continuance of bi- fhops in the English church, i. 206.
Mulmutius. See Dunwallo.
Mufic, recommended to youth, i. 283.
NASSAU, houfe of, hinted at, as dangerous to a commonwealth,
Natanleod, or Nazaleod, fuppofed the fame with Uther Pendragon, iv. 104.
Nations, at liberty to erect what form of government they like, ii. 276, iii. 132. Their beginning why obfcure, iv. I. Nazianzen, his wifh that prelacy had never been, iii. 46.
Nature, her zodiac and annual circuit over human things, ii. 206. Nero, had no right to the fucceffion, iii. 172. Comparison be- tween him and king Charles, 237.
Netherlands, faved from ruin by not trufting the Spanish king, ii. 302.
Nonnichia, wife of Gerontius, her resolution and death, iv. 78. Is- highly praised by Sozomen, ibid.
Nimrod, reputed by ancient tradition, the first that founded mo- narchy, ii. 470.
Ninnius, an author reputed to have lived above 1000 years ago,
Norway, prince Frederic heir of, the council of state's letter to him, iv. 361. Oliver's letter to him, 435. Newgate, when built, iv. 23, note.
OBEDIENCE, defined, ii. 294.
Ofta, and Ebiffa, Hengift the fon and nephew of, called over by him, iv. 98. They poffefs themfelves of Northumberland,
Odemira, Conde de, Oliver's letter to him, iv. 413.
Oenus, one in the catalogue of ancient British kings, iv. 22. Oeric, or Oife, fucceeds his father Hengift in the kingdom of Kent, and from him the Kentifh kings called Oifcings, iv. 103. He is otherwife called Efca, 110.
Offa, the fon of Siger, quits his kingdom of the East Saxons to go to Rome and turn monk, iv. 146, 150.
Offa, defeating and flaying Beornred, becomes king of Mercia after Ethelbald, iv. 151. He fubdues a neighbouring people called Haftings, 152. Gets the victory of Alric king of Kent at Occanford, ibid. Inviting Ethelbrite king of the Eaft-Angles to his palace, he there treacherously caufes him to be beheaded, and feizes his kingdom, 155. Had at firft enmity, afterwards league with Charles the Great, 156. He grants a perpetual tribute to the pope out of every house in his kingdom, ibid. He draws a trench of wonderous length between Mercia and the British confines. His death, ibid.
Oldenburgh, count of, letter from the council of state to him, iv: 362. Letters from Oliver to him, 371, 372.
Oldenburgh, Henry, letters to, i. xxii. xxviii. xxxv. xl. Oliver, the protector, letters written in his name to feveral princes and potentates, iv. 371, &c. In Latin, vi. 1, &c. His ma-
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