Part 14
This story, which is told in “Jack of Dover,” 1604, is instructive if not amusing:—“There was of late (quoth another of the jurie) a ploughman and a butcher dwelling in Lancaster who, for a trifling matter (like two fooles), went to law, and spent much money therein, almost to both their undoings; but at last, being both consented to be tride by a lawyer dwelling in the same town, each of them, in hope of a further favour, bestowed gyftes upon him. The ploughman first of all presented him a cupple of good fat hens, desiring Mr. Lawyer to stand his good friend, and to remember his suite in law, the which he courteously tooke at his handes, saying that what favour he could show him, he should be sure of the uttermost. But now, when the butcher heard of the presenting of these hens by the ploughman, hee went and presently killed a good fatte hogge, and in like manner presented it to the lawyer, as a bribe to draw him to his side; the which he also tooke very courteously, and promised the like to him as he did before to the other. But so it fell out, that shortly after the verdict passed on the butcher’s side; which when the ploughman had notice of, he came to the lawyer, and asked him wherefore his two hens were forgotten. Mary, quoth he, because there came in a fatte hogge and eate them up. Now a vengeance take that hog! quoth the ploughman, that eate both my suit in law and hens together! Well, quoth Jacke of Dover, this in my minde was pretty foolery, but yet the foole of all fooles is not heere found, that I looked for.”
This seems to have been a rather favourite jest, for it is given also in the “Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson,” 1607, and in the “Mery Tales,” 1530, and is one of the mediæval jokes given by Wright in his “Latin Stories” (Percy Society).
Alexander Barclay and Manchester.
Probably the first purely literary reference to Manchester is that contained in the first eclogue of Alexander Barclay. Of the two shepherds who carry on a dialogue, Cornix is the chief speaker, and graphically pourtrays the miseries of life at court. Early in the conversation comes this passage:—
_Cornix._
. . . . . . Thus all be fooles which willingly there dwell, Coridon, the court is the bayting place of hell.
_Coridon._
That is hardly saide man, by the roode of rest.
_Cornix._
I graunt it is harde, but to say truth is best, But yet shall I proue my saying veritable, Aduert my wordes, see if I be culpable. Unto our purpose: by diuers wayes three Men may be fooles, I shall them count to thee: They all be fooles which set their thought and minde That thing for to seke which they shall neuer finde. And they be fooles which seke thing with delite, Which if they finde is harm and no profite; And he is a foole, a sotte, and a geke also, Which choseth a place unto the same to go, And where diuers wayes lead thither directly He choseth the worst and most of ieopardie: As if diuers wayes laye unto Islington, To Stow on the Wold, Quaueneth or Trompington, To Douer, Durham, to Barwike or Exeter, To Grantham, Totnes, Bristow, or good Manchester, To Roan, Paris, to Lions or Floraunce.
_Coridon._
What ho man abide, what already in Fraunce. Lo, a fayre journey, and shortly ended to, With all these townes what thing have we to do?
_Cornix._
By God man knowe thou that I haue had to do In all these townes and yet in many mo, To see the worlde in youth me thought was best, And after in age to geue my selfe to rest.
_Coridon._
Thou might haue brought one and set by our village.
_Cornix._
What man I might not for lacke of cariage. To cary mine owne selfe was all that euer I might, And sometime for ease my sachell made I light.
_Coridon._
To our first matter we better must entende, Els in twelue monthes we scant shall make an ende.
(_Spenser Society’s Reprint_, pp. 5-6.)
This passage has not escaped the notice either of Mr. T. H. Jamieson, who has edited Barclay’s translation of the “Stultifera Navis,” or of Dr. A. W. Ward, who has written his life in the “Dictionary of National Biography,” and puts the query that Godmanchester may be meant. The eclogue from which the quotation is taken, together with two others, are said to be “gathered out of a booke named in Latin, ‘Miseriæ Curialium,’ compiled by Æneas Silvius, Poet and Oratour.” This, of course, means that member of the Piccolomini family, who, after an earlier life not free from reproach, made a decorous pontiff, as Pope Pius II., and died in 1464. This book, drawn from his own experience of the unhappy life of courtiers, was the most popular of all his writings. It was often reprinted, but whether Barclay worked from a printed or a MS. copy is not known. Now, what his principles of translation were we know, both from his declaration and practice. In his version of Brandt’s “Ship of Fools,” he tells how he added and omitted as seemed best for his purpose of producing a book that should aid in strengthening the morality of the time. And in dealing with Æneas Sylvius, he has been even freer than in dealing with Brandt. Of the “Miseriæ Curialium,” there are several editions in the British Museum, and those of Paris (1475?), Cologne (1468?), Rome (1485? and 1578), have been examined for me by Dr. W. A. Shaw, to whom my best thanks are due for his kindness. “The book,” he says, “of Æneas Sylvius is in prose, and, in epistolary form addressed to ‘dñō Johī de Arch Pspicaci et claro Jurū cōsulto.’ There is none of the eclogue and dialogue form of Barclay’s work; there are no interlocutors, and there are no references, save to such names of classical antiquity as serve for satirical notice, in, say, Juvenal, with the exception that, in the section treating of the table and pleasures of eating, he refers briefly to the place of origin of the better known delicacies. There is no mention of Manchester, nor of England, from first to last, nor any possibility of it from the style of the letter, and taking it casually, side by side with Barclay, I cannot find a parallel point which would suggest a translation.”
We may, therefore, probably regard the passage as strictly autobiographical, and conclude that, in his wandering life as a preaching friar, Barclay, at some time or other, visited Manchester. From internal evidences, the eclogues are assigned to the year 1514, but it is curious that whilst there is a long reference to the death of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, in 1500, there is none to his successors, Redmayne (1501) or Stanley (1509). The early editions of the eclogues are undated, and the first three eclogues were apparently issued before the others. There are many points of interest in regard to the life and work of Alexander Barclay, which cannot be discussed in directing attention to one of the earliest—probably the very earliest—purely literary mention of a place that in after ages has not been without claims to distinction in literature and science. The date of Barclay’s birth is conjecturally, but with tolerable certainty, fixed in 1476, and he died in 1552. Since the biographies by Mr. Jamieson and Dr. Ward were written, some fresh information has appeared in Mr. James Gairdner’s “Letters and Papers of the reign of Henry VIII.,” vol. xiii., pt. 2 (1893). These show that whilst Barclay was conscious of ecclesiastical abuses and desirous of their reform, he was an object of suspicion to those who were carrying out the work of the suppression of the monasteries, and ran some risk by his retention of the distinctive habit of the friars. Robert Ward writes on October 9th, 1538, to Cromwell that at Barking, Suffolk, when Barclay preached there in the Whitsun holidays, he did not declare the King’s supremacy. Ward states that he reproached the preacher for not doing so, but does not record his answer. On October 12th, William Dynham writes to Cromwell: “Of late I came to the priory of St. Germayne in Cornwall, and sat at supper with the Prior, accompanied by Alexander Barckley, who the day before preached in honour of the Blessed Virgin, but not so much to the edifying of his audience as his demeanour next day was, I heard, to their destruction. At supper I moved such questions as I thought might do good to the audience. He served my purpose, till, ‘after a sodeyne dompe, he brake silence, as a man that had spoken too well (and yet a frere in a somewhat honester weed),’ and glorified himself. He first protested he would preach no new things, not set out by the King and his Council. I answered, wondering what he meant, when all men of literature and judgment ‘knew that our so Christian a Prince and his Council set forth no new thing but the gospel of Christ, and the sincere verity thereof.’ Barckley replied, ‘I would to God that at the least the laws of God might have as much authority as the laws of the realm.’ Asked him what he meant, and Barckley said, Nothing, but he thought men were too busy pulling down images without special commandment of the Prince. Dynham answered, he knew none pulled down, except such as idolatry was committed unto, and reminded him ‘of St. Margarets Patent is rode’ (the rood of St. Margaret Pattens in London), and the assembly, although somewhat dispraised, yet for the intent and good fact thereof, tolerated. Here, he demanded, what followed thereof? I requiring him to answer his demand, he said I knew how many tenements and some people were burnt soon upon. ‘What, Barckley?’ said I, ‘here is somewhat moved; ye have a versatile ingeyne, but were ye so sleper as an eel, here will I hold you. Would you infect this audience with that opinion, that God for such cause plagued them? Your cankered heart is disclosed. My true little stomach, with reverence of the prior and his board, must be opened lest it break. You are, Barckley, a false knave and a dissembling frere. You get no pence might I rule here. You seek your own profit vocall to hinder the truth more than unity to set forth the true and princely endeavour of our most Crysten, and of his church Supremest Head, most laudable enterprises; whereof, I trust, thou shalt hear.’”
Writing to Cromwell on October 28th, Latimer says that “A man has written to him that Frere Bartlow does much hurt in ‘Corwall and in Daynshyre,’ both with open preaching and private communication. Suspects he has some comfort from Rome, through Dr. Nycolasse.’ The Abbot of Evesham, the bearer, asks Latimer to thank Cromwell for him. Thinks he will find few who will better remember his kindnesses. He seems a very civil and honest man, and one who puts all his trust in Cromwell. Requests Cromwell to maintain him in his right to what he has obtained by his goodness.” These passages enable Mr. Gairdner to identify the subject of this anecdote told by Foxe, the Martyrologist: “Hereunto also pertaineth the example of Friar Bartley, who wearing still his friar’s cowl after the suppression of religious houses, Cromwell coming through Paul’s Churchyard, and espying him in Rheines’s shop. ‘Yea,’ said he, ‘will not that cowl of yours be left off yet? And if I hear by one o’clock that this apparel be not changed, thou shalt be hanged immediately, for example to all others.’ And so, putting his cowl away, he durst never wear it after.” It is satisfactory to know that he survived these dangers, received some preferment, and died peaceably in 1552.
Index.
Accrington, 35
Acson, Thomas, 89
Actors, French, in London, 62
Adam, progenitor of Scottish kings, 233
Adams, Roger, printer, 40
Adlington, 96
Advertisements, 61, 65, 69
Æneas Sylvius, 248
Agarde, Arthur, 80
Alchemy, 83
Alcock, Bishop, John, 247, 249
Ale, 176
Algerine pirates, 47
Algiers, 47, 53
Allen, Gabriel, 94; Cardinal Witham, 94
Allenson, Rev. Mr., 11
Amber, 57, 58
Ancoats, 226
Annapolis, 18
Anderton family, secret printing press, 39
Arab trade with Europe, 57
Ardwick, 230
Asshelle Lawne, 225
Assheton, Edmund, 96
Assheton crest, 81
Ashton, Sir Thomas, 83, 84
Atkinson, F. R., 185
Babelon, Ernest, 56
Babies for sale, 70
Babs, 71
Bacup, 33
Bailey, Mrs., centenarian, 29
Baker, Daniel, drowned, 97; Sir Thomas, 61, 65
Bamfield or Bampfield, Francis, 42; Sir John, 42; Thomas, 42
Bamford, Samuel, 173, 175; trial, 184
Banbury, 68
Bankes, Legh, 10, 11
Baptist preacher and sea captain, 46
Barcelona, 45
Barclay, Alexander, career of, 245; mention of Manchester, 246
Barley-bird, 76
Barton-in-Kendal, 30
Bauwens, Liévin, 119
Baxter, John, 93
Baxter, William, centenarian, 66
Bayley, Christopher, 94; James, 229
Bedloe, William, 14
Beggarwoman’s fortune, 64
Belfast, 36
Belgium and spinning machinery, 119
Belgrade, 64
Bell, James, priest, executed, 93
Berry, John, printer, journalist, etc., 61, 65, 70
Bexwyke, Hugh, 223, 224; Joan, 223, 224
Bickerstaffe, 26
Bickersteth, Anne, centenarian, 30
Billinge, Anne, 37; Charles, 37; Lydia, 37; Margaret, 37; Mary, centenarian, 36; William, 37
Birds’ feathers, 77
Birds’ language, 76
Birley, Capt., 183; H. H., 185
Birmingham, 186, 196
Blackbird, 77
Blackburn, 30, 78
Blackley, 235
Blackpool, 33
Blainscough, 93
Blake, Admiral, 45
Blakesley, Mrs., centenarian, 27
Blanketeers, 174
Blue titmouse, 77
Blundell, William, trial, 4, 24
Boardman, Mrs., centenarian, 29
Boardman, Bolton dwarf, 136
Boggart, flitting, 210
Bolton, 24, 94, 112, 136
Bolton Percy, 88
Bone and Skin, 228
Booksellers, 61, 65
Booth of Barton, 95
Boothe, Anne, 90; John, 90; Marget, 90
Boston, Mass., 19
Bowker, James, 201
Bradshaw, Rev. Joseph, 88
Bradford, 61, 65
Bradley, Mr., 61, 65
Braidley, B., 185
Branded for roguery, 9
Brandwood, Ellin, centenarian, 27
Bread baking, 223
Brereton, Col. Uriah, 9, 12
Brereton, Sir Urian, 87
Brierley, Ben, 200
Briscoe, William, centenarian, 28
Bristol, 18, 62; murder at, 17
Broadnax or Broadneux, Major Robert, centenarian, 25
Brome, H., 42
Bromfield, Dr., a Jacobite Quaker, 5
Brookes, Rev. Joshua, 34
Brookes, Mrs., 69
Brooks, John, 186
Breweries, 227, 230
Buckinger, Matthew, death of, 64
Buddhist stories, 219
Burnley, 24, 28, 204
Burt, James, 192
Bury, 30, 68
Byrom, John, 228
Cannel coal ornaments, 112
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 192
Cape Hone, 51
Carlisle, 34
Carmarthen, 17
Carpenter, General, 239
Carr, 28
Catharine of Liverpool, 163
Cecil, Lady Mildred, 95
Centenarians, Lancashire, 22-38
Chaderton, William, Bishop of Chester, 91, 92, 93
Chaffinch, 77
Chambers’s Cyclopædia, 65
Chapels wrecked, 235
Charles II., 47, 233; and Quaker sailor, 53
Cheetham, 230
Cheetham Hill, 36
Chester, 44, 61, 65
Chetham, Humphrey, 98
Childe of Hale, 133
Children, marriage of, 82, 86
Chimney, 87
China blue, 34
Chorlton, 94, 195
Chorlton-on-Medlock, 34
Chorlton, Alexander, 89
Chowbent, 240
Church porch marriages, 84
Church sites supernaturally changed, 204
Churchdown, 204
Circulating library, 144
Clavell’s catalogue, 42
Clay soils, 75
Clayton, 229
Clayton, William, centenarian, 29
Clifton, Sir Thomas, trial, 4, 5
Clitheroe, 27, 72
Clowes, Rev. John, 159
Coal ornaments, 112
“Cock nests,” 75
Cockerell, James, centenarian, 24
Cockerham, 7, 203
Coffee, 176
Colliers’ wages, 62
Cooper, Bishop, and Martin Marprelate, 39
Cooper, Dr. Thomas, 167
Cork, 64
Corn mill, 223
Corpse arrested for debt, 67
Cotton, 75
Coward, Timothy, centenarian, 25
Crawford, Sir James, 122
Creeper, 76, 77
Crest, Trafford, 80
Crossley, Frances, centenarian, 29
Croxteth, 7, 12
Cruikshank, the surgeon, 15, 22
Crumpsall, 35
Cuba, 67
Cuerdale, Kufic coins found at, 56
Curril, Elizabeth, centenarian, 29
Dacre, Lord, 186
Danes’ commerce with the East, 60
David le Seintpier, 83
Davis, Mr., 61, 65
Deacon, Anne, a rich beggar, 63
Deer, red, 26
De Quincey, Thomas, account of a highwayman, 15
Derby, 195
Derby, Earl of, 39
Derwentwater, Earl of, 237
Dettingen Battle, 31
Detrosier, Rowland, 189
Devil in folk-lore, 203, 212
Dialect, 106, 113
Diamond, Dr., 37
Dickenson, Mrs. Margaret, 64
Dicconson, Roger, 11, 13
Dicconson, William, trial, 3, 4, 7, 9
Disley, 25
Dissenters and Test Act, 232
Divine right, 233
Divorce, 87
Dixon, Elijah, 186, 195
Dog, mad, 68
Dolls, 70
Doni, Antonio Francisco, 208
Downes, Francis, 97; John, 97; Roger, 97
Dream, story of, 213
Dress, 113
Driving the stags, 26
Duberdo, Isaac, centenarian, 27
Dublin working schools, 64
Dudley, Earl of, 196
Duel, 81
Dukenhalgh, 7, 12
Dunstanville, Lord de, 186
Dwarf, 136
Dyer, J. C., 188
Dyeing, 34-35
Dynham, William, 250
Eccles, 83
Eccleston, Thomas, 3
Eels, 78
Eldon, Lord, 186
Elell, 27
Ellis, William, centenarian, 28
Enfield, 28
Everton, 37
Eveson, Susan, centenarian, 28
Executions, 63, 93, 242
Exon, 62
Eyre, Sir Giles, 12, 13
Fables, migration, 219
Fairies, 221
Faloghys, Thomas, 85
Featherstone’s doom, 204
Felons, prosecution, 68
ffarington, William, 99
Fielden, John, 195
“Fighting sailor turned peaceable Christian,” 54
Finch, John, recusant, executed, 93
Finger nails, 203
Fish ova artificial impregnation, 74
Fleming, Jane, 36
Fleming, Mr., centenarian, 27
Fleming the spy, 172
Fletcher, Mrs., 157
Flodden Field, 86
Folk-Lore of Lancashire, 197
Fool of Lancaster, 243
Ford, William, 41-42
Footpad, 67
Forster, General, 241, 242
Fox, George, and Thomas Lurting, 47-48
French players, 62
Friends, early, 46-55
Friers, Roger, centenarian, 25
Fulling mills, 226
Funeral, 88; by torchlight, 96; sermon, 96
Gainsburgh, William of, 153
Gairdner, James, 249
Gale, Miss, 68; Roger, 68
Gamul, story of, 206
Gardner, Martha, centenarian, 37-38
Garnett, Richard, 70; Dr. Richard, 70; Jeremiah, 78; Thomas, biographical notice, 72
Garstang, 27, 30
Gaskell, Mrs., her “Squire’s Story,” 15-21
George IV., 187
Gerard, Sir W., 3, 100
“Gesta Romanorum,” 208
Giants, 130
Gibson, Rev. T. E., 25
Glasgow, 34
Glass trade, 69
Glave family in Wigan, 32
Glover, Mr., centenarian, 27
Gomme. G. L., 199
Goosnargh, 7
Gorton, 230
Gosnal, Jane, centenarian, 29
Gosnell, Rev. James, 94
Goss, Rev. Alexander, 14
Gossamer, 78
Gough, Mr., 61, 65
Grammar School of Manchester, 222
Green, Rev. Henry, 20
Greenwood, John, 176
Greg family, 161; R. H., 188, 192
Grelle, Thomas, 223
Grey, Earl, 189, 194, 196
Grey wagtail, 75
“Guide to Heaven,” 41
Hadfield, George, 188, 192
Hale giant, 133
Halifax, 61, 65
Hall, J., 42
Hamer, Richard, centenarian, 30
Hamo de Massey, 80
Hanson, Colonel, trial of, 170
Harding, George, centenarian, 29
Hardwick, Charles, 201, 211
Harland, John, 200
Harper, Thomas, printer, 41-42
Harrison, Mary, centenarian, 33
Hartley, Barnard, centenarian, 32; John, 227
Hatton, Roman Catholic priest, 93
Haunted cabin, 46
Hawick, 66
Hawker, R. S., 204
Hawkshead, 29
Hay, Rev. W. R., 172, 174, 180, 181, 184
Hayes, Elizabeth, centenarian, 30
Hazard tables suppressed, 64
Healey, Joseph, trial, 184
Hearse cloth, 96
Henry III., imposture at his tomb, 148
Henry IV., 83
Henry VI., 83
Herle, Warden, 94
Hicks Hall, 69
Higgins, Edward, career as highwayman, 15-21
High Church Jacobites, 236
Highwaymen, 15, 63, 66, 67, 69
Hilton, Elizabeth, centenarian, 27
Hodgkins, a printer, 39
Hodgson, Mr., 61, 65
Holland glass trade, 69
Holmes, Mrs., centenarian, 28
Honford, John, 84; Margaret 85;
William, 85
Horse in woollen stockings, 16
Horsleydown, 54
Hoskins, Thomas, 45
Houghton tower, 96
Houghton, Sir Henry, 238
Howard, Queen Catharine, 90
Howard, _alias_ Dicconson, 12
Howley, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 192
Hoyle, Thomas, and Son, 34
Hudleston, Richard, Benedictine, 98
Hudson, William, 89
Hugh of Manchester, 146
Hugson, William, 89
Hulme, 33, 230
Hulme, Ralph, 223, 224
Hunt Fold, 30
Hunt, Henry, 178, 183, 190, 191; trial, 184
Hunter, Mrs., centenarian, 30
Husan, Mr., centenarian, 28
Hutton, John, centenarian, 34, 36
Ice, 78
Idelot de la Ferté, Baron, 125
Illegitimacy, 109
Indian, North American, princes, 31
Ireland, Sir Gilbert, 133
Irk, 224, 225
Irwell, 224, 225
Jackson, John, mathematician, 40
Jackson, Matthew, centenarian, 29
Jackson, Thomas, centenarian, 27
Jacobins, 167
Jacobite trials in 1694, 1; Rising of 1715, 231
Jaláuddin, 218
James III., 236, 238, 239, 242
Jamieson, T. H., 247
Jeanie Deans, a Manchester, 129
Jenkins, Jasper, centenarian, 27
Jesuits, 91
Johnson, John, 113
Johnson, Joseph, 195; trial, 184
Johnson, Thomas, centenarian, 27
Jones, Mary, centenarian, 30
Journalism, early, 70
Kay, Alexander, 188
Keck, Leigh, 185
Keggan, Thomas, centenarian, 28
Kelso, 237
Kendal, 25, 27, 238
Kensington, 65
Kenyon, James, 121; Mary, 121, 125
Kingswood riots, 62
Kirkpatrick, Mr., 61, 65
Knight, Joseph, trial, 184
Knightsbridge, 69
Knutsford highwayman, 15-21
Kufic Coins in Lancashire, 56
Ladridge, 27
Lampreys, 78
Lancashire Folk-Lore, 197
“Lancashire Journal,” 61, 70
Lancashire Plot, 1
Lancaster, 27, 30, 93, 236, 239, 243
Langholm, 237
Langton, Philip, trial, 4
Latimer, Hugh, 252
Laùro, 211
La Warr, Lord, 224, 226
Leading article in newspaper, 62
Leatherbarrow, Mary, centenarian, 33
Le Bon G., 56
Leeds, 186
Leek, 195
Legh, Peter, 26; Sir Peter, 96; Sir Urian, 96
Legh of Adlington, 86
Leghorn, 47
Leicester, Elizabeth, 90; Ralph, 91
Leigh, 26, 27, 29
Leversege, Thomas, 85
Lewis, Sir G. C., 23, 74
Library, circulating, 144
Liévin Bauwens family, 125
Linford, Peter, centenarian, 28
Lister, Dr. Martin, 24
Literary Taste of the Eighteenth Century, 144
Liverpool, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 44, 45, 47, 61, 65
Livesey, 29
Locusts, 77
London, 195
Longevity, 22-38, 66
Long Meg of Westminster, 131
Longworth, Mrs. Anne, centenarian, 30
Lord, Henry, centenarian, 28
Lord, Mrs., 61, 65
Lostock, 39
Low Moor, 72
Lunt, John, perjurer, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Lurting family, 44; Thomas, the fighting sailor, turned peaceable Christian, 44
Lyme, 25, 96
Lyndhurst, Lord, 186, 194
Lyon, Capt., 79
Macaulay, Margaret, centenarian, 30
MacKee, John, centenarian, 30
Mackintosh, Brigadier, 237, 240, 242
Mad Roger, 28
Maddock, Mr., 61, 65
Maghall, 28
Maghull, 29
Majorca, 48, 51
Manchester, 29, 30, 33, 34, 90, 186, 196, 236, 238
Manchester churchwarden and parish clerk appointed by Traffords, 95
Manchester Corn Mills, 224
Manchester, first book printed in, 39
Manchester Free Library, 41, 61
Manchester, mentioned by Alexander Barclay, 245
Manchester Grammar School Mill, 87, 222
Manchester Jacobite trials, 1
Manchester, Higgins, the highwayman, resident at, 19
Manchester in 1807, 117
Manchester Mathematical Society, 40
Manchester Parish Church, heads exposed on, 93
_Manchester Guardian_, 72, 75
_Manchester Magazine_, 65
Manchester, George, will of, 106
Manchester, Hugh of, 146
Marlborough, Duke of, 240
Massenius, 207
Marriages, 63, 69, 82, 84, 86, 90, 91
Marsh, William, centenarian, 27
Marshall, Christian, centenarian, 30
Marsh titmouse, 76
Martin Marprelate, 39
Matthew Paris, 208
Maryland, 78
Massey, Hamo de, 80
Massie, William, sermon at Trafford, 91
“Mathematical Lectures,” 40; Society, 40
Maud, Lady, 17
Mayfield print works, 34
Medicine, abstinence from, 29
Medicines, 71
Melfort, Jacobite Earl of, 8
Merry Andrew, 126
Merton Sands, 204
Methodism and theatres, 115
Middleton, 177
Middleton, John, the Hale giant, 134
Middlewich, 61, 65
Miller’s “Gardeners’ Dictionary,” 65
Milner, George, 200
Minnows, 78
Molyneux, Lord, 3, 7, 13
Monks, Jane, centenarian, 29
Monton, 235
“More work for the Cooper,” 39
Morocco, 66
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 228