Michiel, Giovanni, iv. 3 Middle English settle round Leicester, i. 37; become Christian, 72 Middle Saxons, i. 54 Middlesex elects Wilkes, viii. 5, 7 Middleton, Thomas, v. 42 Milan Decree, Napoleon's, viii. 181 Mile-end, meeting of Richard II. and the Kentishmen at, ii. 322 Milford Haven, Richard II. lands at, ii. 380 Millenary Petition, v. 151 Milton, John, his early life, v. 98-101; life at Horton, 302, 303; early poems, 304; _Comus_, 305, 306; _Lycidas_, 332; views on Church reform, 355; change in his ecclesiastical views, vi. 32; his sonnet on the Vaudois, 123; his _Defence of the English People_, 231; his later life, 232, 233; _Paradise Lost_, 234-237; _Areopagitica_, 305 Minden, battle of, vii. 264 Mines in England, i. 30; ii. 107; viii. 57 Minorca ceded to England, vii. 142; lost, 248; restored, 307; ceded to Spain, viii. 41 Mirebeau, Arthur of Britanny captured at, i. 268 Mise of Amiens, ii. 68; of Lewes, 71 Model, New. _See_ Army _Modus Tenendi Parliamentum_, i. 275 Mogul Empire, the, vii. 234 Monaco, soldiers of, at Crécy, ii. 236 Monarchy, growth of its strength, iii. 88, 89; new policy, 89; causes of its power, 111; its position at Thomas Cromwell's death, iv. 7; changes in its system under Elizabeth, 232; James I.'s theory of, v. 169-171; change in its relations to the country, 183, 184; abolished, vi. 68; proposal to restore it, 119-121; restored, 152; character after the Restoration, 172, 173, 183, 184; character since the Revolution, vii. 60; its insignificance under the House of Hanover, vii. 172-175. _See_ King Monasteries, suppression of, iii. 310, 311, 346; iv. 13 Monasticism, revival of, under Henry I. and Stephen, i. 222; its condition in the sixteenth century, iii. 309-310 Monk, George, subdues the Highlands, vi. 108; commander in Scotland, 150; gathers a Convention at Edinburgh, _ib._; leads his army to London, 151; restores Charles II., 152; Duke of Albemarle, 193; fight with De Ruyter, 238 Monmouth, James, Duke of, vi. 176, 309; schemes for his succession, 309, 310; comes to court, 312; ordered to leave London, _ib._; returns, 314; his progresses, 316, 322; arrested, 335; flight, 337; finds refuge at the Hague, vii. 8; his attempt on England, 9; defeat and death, 10 Monmouth, Humfrey, iii. 258 Monopolies, sale of, by Edward III., ii. 291; abolished by Elizabeth, v. 58; revived by James I., 222; by Charles I., 279 Mons surprised by Lewis of Nassau, iv. 298; captured by Lewis XIV., vii. 76 Montacute, Henry Pole, Lord, iii. 349, 350