Martin, Sir William, on Roger Williams, 307, n. 1.

Martyr, Peter, Decade III, 24, n. 9.

Maryland, Baltimore's projected colony in, 236; change to, from Avalon, 239; small migration to, 240; policy of toleration in, 242, 250, 265, n. 25; committed to guardian angels, 243; arrival of the Catholic pilgrims, 244; ceremonies of the landing in, 244; said to have been named by King Charles, 245; called Colony of St. Maries, 245; efforts to convert the Protestants in, 246; openly a Catholic colony, 247, 264, n. 17; import tax on Catholic servants and convicts, 248, 264, n. 19; opposition to Maryland, 249; Puritan settlers invited, 252; civil wars of, 253, 254; Act of Toleration pa.s.sed, 255; again a proprietary government under Calvert, 257; disastrous results of religious differences in, 266.

Maryland Archives, 245, m.; 262, n. 10; 265, n. 21.

Maryland a.s.sembly too cunning to be trapped by Baltimore, 255.

Maryland charter, ambiguity of the, designed, 225, 236, 251, 259, n. 4; 262, n. 11; compared with charter of Avalon, 234; provisions of, 235, 236; extensive powers granted by, 236, 263, n. 12.

Ma.s.s celebrated in defiance of law, 226; abhorred by the Puritans in Avalon, 228.

Ma.s.sachusetts Bay, failure of commercial settlements on, 189; patent to lands in, granted to the Ma.s.sachusetts Company, 207.

Ma.s.sachusetts charter, Laud's effort to vacate the, 282, 284.

Ma.s.sachusetts colony, government under Endecott, 217, n. 7; people h.o.m.ogenous in religious affairs, 266; religious opinion, main source of disturbance in, 266, 267; self-consciousness of the, 278; preparations for resistance in, 284; failure as an agricultural colony, 320; three profound disturbances in, 326; in commotion over the Hutchinson controversy, 335.

Ma.s.sachusetts Company, rise of the, 199, 207; first colony of, under John Endecott, 199, 207; second company of emigrants, 203; fear that the charter might be revoked, 208; company and colony to be merged in one, 209; transfers its government and charter to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay, 210; the commercial corporation becomes a colonial government, 211; the colonists believed they were founding a new church, 212.

Ma.s.sachusetts government, evolution of the, 207; first court of, at Charlestown, 210; later became representative, 211; relieved from strain by the borough system, 276; a government of congregations, 308, n. 6; theocratical, 279; religious intolerance of the, 297, 349, n. 9; anomalous in character, 323; angered by Hooker's secession, 326.

Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Collections, 310, n. 15; 318, m.; 320, m.; 347, n. 1; 348, n. 7.

Ma.s.sachusetts Records, 206, m.; 285, m.; 290, m.; 291, m.; 308, n. 11; 310, n. 13, 17; 317, m.; 320, m.; 337, m.

Ma.s.sacre by the Indians put an end to all projects, 84, 92.

Ma.s.son's Life of Milton, 137, n. 6.

Mather's Magnalia, 152, m.; 154, m.; 217, n. 5; 328, m.; authority to be disregarded, 311, n. 17.

Maverick, Samuel, on Noddle's Island, 190; Description of New England, 273, m.

Maydstown laid off in Virginia, 72, n. 19.

Mayflower, conduct of the captain of the, 177.

Maynard to Laud, 344, m.

May-poles, opposition to, 118; pole of St. Andrew Undershaft sawed up, 119; law against May-poles, 119; the frolics around charged with immorality, 120; Morton's, at Merrymount, 190, 201.

Mediterranean Sea, a, looked for in the heart of America, 11.

Meeting, last all-night, in Pastor Robinson's house, 175.

Mennonites, Williams attracted to the doctrines of the, 312, n. 19; derived his broadest principles from the, 313, n. 19.

Mercurius America.n.u.s, 348, n. 6.

Merrymount, Morton's dangerous settlement at, 190, 201, 216, n. 1.

Metals, the precious, the only recognized riches, 75.

Mica mistaken for gold, 13, 30, 75.

Migration, the great, to New England, 196, 203.

Millinary Pet.i.tion, the, 159.

Millinery sins, regulations against, 285.

Mills's British India, 67, n. 9.

Milton, John, learned Dutch from Roger Williams, 273.

Mines, Mexican, reports of wealth of, brought support to Ralegh's undertaking, 74.

Ministerial office never so reverenced as by Puritans, 338.

Ministers, two, over one church, 106; might prophesy, but not a woman, 338.

Missionary impulse, first, in the English Church, 89, 94, n. 1.

Monatesseron, the earliest English, 93.

Montserrat, island of, settled by Catholics, 231, 232, 261, n. 9.

Months, scruples about the heathen names of the, 302.

Morals, austerity in, 119; advance of, under Puritan influence, 121; lack of sense of proportion is a trait of the age, 130; regularity of, purchased at a great sacrifice, 342.

More, Father Henry, 263, n. 14.

Morton, Thomas, and his deviltry, 190, 201, 216, n. 1; Memorial, 177, m.; New English Canaan, 216, n. 1.

Motives for founding English colonies, 73; commercial and sentimental, 86; religious, 89, 189.

Mount Desert, Jesuit settlement at, plundered, 47, 50.

Mourt's Relation, 184, n. 4.

Mouse and snake, battle between, 277; interpretation of, by Pastor John Wilson, 277.

Mouse nibbles a Book of Common Prayer, 278.

Movements, significant, usually cradled in rustic mangers, 146.