Magdalen of Valois, queen of Scots, iv. 23
Maine conquered by counts of Anjou, i. 212; by William of Normandy, 158, 213; by Philip Augustus, 269; ceded to France, ii. 63
Major-Generals, Cromwell's, vi. 107, 118, 119
Malmesbury, James Harris, first Lord, viii. 121, 123
Malmesbury, William of, i. 4, 6, 173, 243, 244
Malta conquered by Buonaparte, viii. 132; blockaded by a British fleet, viii. 162; surrenders, 165
Man, Isle of, conquered by Eadwine, i. 63
Manchester seized by Eadward the Elder, i. 119; its rise, vii. 196
Manchester, Edward Montagu, second Earl of (_see_ Mandeville), head of the Association of the Eastern Counties, vi. 8, 13, 18; quarrels with Cromwell, 24, 34; retires, 35
Mandeville, Geoffrey de, Earl of Essex, i. 343
Mandeville, Edward Montagu, Viscount, v. 354, 358. _See_ Manchester
Mans, Le, seized by Geoffrey Martel, i. 212; rebels against William Rufus, 197; Henry II. besieged in, 258; surrendered to Charles VII., iii. 62
Mansfield, William Murray, first Earl of, vii. 259
Mantes, William the Conqueror wounded at, i. 190
Mantua, siege of, viii. 123; surrenders to Buonaparte, 125
Manufactures, growth of, under Elizabeth, iv. 278-280; in Yorkshire, their rise, v. 281; English, in eighteenth century, viii. 53, 54, 59, 60; altered conditions of, 193, 194; of linen, in Ireland, v. 291; of silk, at Spitalfields, vii. 14
Manumissions, sale of, to the king's serfs, i. 325
Mar, John Erskine, sixth Earl of, vii. 145, 183
March, Roger Mortimer, first Earl of. _See_ Mortimer
March, Roger Mortimer, fourth Earl of, ii. 378
March, Edmund Mortimer, fifth Earl of, iii. 2, 13, 14, 28, 30
Marchers, the Lords, ii. 67, 75, 80-82, 85
Mardyke, capture of, by the French, vi. 124
Maria Theresa of Austria, vii. 199; queen of Hungary, 220; her struggle with Frederick the Great, 221, 223, 225, 246
Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI., iii. 61; her policy, 72, 74; flies to Scotland, 75; victory at St. Albans, 79; defeated at Towton, 80; appeals to Lewis XI., 121; defeated at Hexham, 123; reconciled with Warwick, 137; lands at Weymouth, 143; captured at Tewkesbury, 145
Margaret, wife of Malcolm III., king of Scots, i. 170
Margaret, daughter of Henry VII., wife of James IV. of Scotland, iii. 185; her second marriage, 231; strife with Albany, 232, 235, 247, 248; with her husband, iv. 22