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 Americanus, 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 Petition, 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. Mulberries first planted in England, 76; law for promoting the raising of, in Virginia, 77; repealed, 79. Muskrat skins valued for their odor, 19. Names, fanciful, of the Newfoundland coast, 225, 229. Names, Indian, of places changed, 244. Nansemond, settlement at, 37; settlers driven from, 38. Narragansett Bay recommended to Williams by Winthrop, 293; proposal to remove to, alarmed the magistrates, 294; colony on, founded on the true principle, 316.