Of the first Mary, long and too deservedly known by the title of "Bloody Mary," we confess we can never think without commiseration. Unamiable she certainly was, and deplorably bigoted. She sent two hundred and eighty-four people to the stake during a short reign of five years and four months; which, upon an average, is upwards of four a week! She was withal plain, petty of stature, ill-colored, and fierce-eyed, with a voice almost as deep as a man's; had a bad blood; and ended with having nobody to love her, not even the bigots in whose cause she lost the love of her people. _Leigh Hunt: "Men, Women and Books."_ MARY II. (Queen of England and wife of William III.), 1662-1694. "_My Lord, why do you not go on? I am not afraid to die._" Said to Archbishop Tillotson who, reading to her, when she was upon her death-bed, the commendatory prayer in the office for the sick, was so overcome by grief that he was compelled to pause. MASANIELLO (Tommaso Aniello, the fisherman of Amalfi, who headed the revolt which occurred in Naples in 1647 against the Spanish viceroy, the Duke of Arcos. His victory lasted nine days, during which time he had one hundred and fifty thousand men under arms and at his command. He was murdered by his own soldiers), 1623-1646. "_Ungrateful traitors!_" said to the assassins. MATHER (Cotton), 1633-1728. "_I am going where all tears will be wiped from my eyes_," to his wife, who wiped his eyes with her handkerchief. Just before this he exclaimed: "Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh! I can bear this! I can bear it! I can bear it!" He was a masterful man, abundant in labors, the organizer of over twenty charitable societies, a leader of all movements in church and state, an omnivorous reader, and the author of 382 separate publications, besides his enormous "Biblia Americana," which remains to this day in manuscript. He surmounted the prejudices of his age in defending inoculation, but not with regard to witchcraft and some other matters. His character was marred by certain restless infirmities; "it was his unconcealed grief that he was never elected to preside over Harvard." His greatest work, "Magnalia Christi Americana," 1702, was reprinted in two volumes, with memoir, and translations of the numerous Hebrew, Greek, and Latin quotations, Hartford, 1855. _Biographical Dictionary._ MATHER (Increase, distinguished New England divine), 1639-1723. "_Be fruitful._" MATHER (Richard, celebrated Congregational minister in Dorchester, Mass. He was a voluminous author), 1596-1669. "_Far from well, yet far better than mine iniquities deserve_," in response to a question about his health. MATHEWS (Charles, English Comedian), 1776-1836. "_I am ready._"