True, what, 286. A lefs number may counfel a greater to re-
tain their liberty, iii. 423. Can be preserved only by virtue,
Liberty, Chriflian, not to be meddled with by civil magiftrates, iii.
320, 331, 337.
Libraries, public, recommended, iii. 388.
Licenfers, the inconveniencies attending their office, i. 308.
Licenfing, of books, crept out of the inquifition, i. 290. Hiftorical
account of licensing, ibid. 295. Not to be exempted from the
number of vain and impoffible attempts, 302. Conduces no-
thing to the end for which it was framed, 303. Not able to re-
ftrain a weekly libel against parliament and city, 307. Italy and
Spain not bettered by the licenfing of books, ibid. The mani-
feft hurt it does, 308, &c. The ill confequences of it, and dif-
couragement to learning, 316. First put in practice by anti-
christian malice and mystery, 319.
Linceus, faid to be the husband of one of the feigned fifty daughters
of Dioclefian, king of Syria, iv. 4. The only man faved by
his wife, when the rest of the fifty flew their husbands, ibid.
Litany, remarks on it, i. 261.
Liturgy, confeffes the fervice of God to be perfect freedom, i. 146.
Reflections on the use of it, 163. Remarks on the arguments
brought in defence of it, 165-174. Detefted as well as pre-
lacy, 172. Reason of the ufe of liturgies, 173. Arguments
against the use of them, 259. The inconveniences of them,
ibid. Taken from the papal church, 261. Neither liturgy nor
directory fhould be impofed, iii. 39.
Livy, praifes the Romans for gaining their liberty, ii. 282. A
good expofitor of the rights of Roman kings, iii. 228.
Locrine, the eldest son of Brutus, has the middle part of this island
called Loegria for his fhare in the kingdom, iv. II.
Logica, Artis, plenior Inftitutio, vi. 195.
Lollius Urbicus, draws a wall of turfs between the Frith of Dun-
britton and Edinburgh, iv. 63.
London, first called Troja Nova, afterward Trinovantum, and faid to
be built by Brutus, iv. 11. Tower of, by whom built, 19.
Enlarged, walled about, and named from king Lud, 23. New
named Augusta, 75. With many of her inhabitants by a fudden
fire confumed, 157. Danes winter there, 175. The city burnt,
206.
Loneliness, how indulgently God has provided against man's, ii. 129.
Lothair, fucceeds his brother Ecbert in the kingdom of Kent, iv.
140. Dies of wounds received in battle against Edric, 142.
Love, produces knowledge and virtue, i. 225. The fon of Penury,
begot of Plenty, 355. How parabled by the ancients, ibid.
Lubec, Oliver's letter to the fenators and confuls of that city, iv.
434.
Lucius, a king in fome part of Britain, thought the first of any king
in Europe who received the Chriftian 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 Epicurism, 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 firft 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 use force
in religious matters, 324, 343. Reasons 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 say 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 visit 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.go.
Marcus Aurelius, ready to lay down the government, if the fenate or
people required it, iii. 250.
Marganus, the fon of Gonoril, deposes 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 understood, 22. The mise-
ries in marriage to be laid on unjuft 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. Chrift
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 houthold 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 first 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 proteftants with
Charles IX, ii. 302. Irish, more than 200,000 protestants
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 Conftantine 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 Austin to the converfion of
the Saxons, iv. 121. He converts the East-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 submitting to com-
manders orders, i. 81.
Militia, not to be disposed of without consent 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, i. 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 shelter, 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,
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 refufe to fet 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 Yeraslave, iv.
276. Said to be bigger than London, ibid. Method of travelling
thence to the Cafpian, ibid. Siege of it raifed, 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 Genefis, what fort
of government they were to be subject to, i. 79. Designed for
a lawgiver, but Chrift came among us as a teacher, 197. Of-
fended with the prophane fpeeches 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.
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