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Machine ships. See Ships.

Maids of Honour. See Royal Household.

Malt Duty. See Excise—malt.

Malt Lottery. See Lotteries.

Manors, named—
-, Bucklawren.
-, Catterick.
-, Deeping.
-, East Greenwich.
-, Farrington Gurney.
-, Gillingham.
-, Howleigh.
-, Kennington.
-, Killyon.
-, Laverton.
-, Pickering.
-, Reigate.
-, Scalby.
-, Shippon.
-, Shuttington.
-, Softley.
-, Stonetown.
-, Stratton Sanctuary.
-, Tarbert.
-, Tew, Great.
-, Thornton Briggs.
-, Tregameer.
-, Trelowia.

Marine Regiments, accounts of, 36, 198.
-, colonels of, 236, 282.
-, First Regiment, 282.
-, issues for, 282.
-, officers of, 60, 185, 237, 256, 263, 282.
-, Second Regiment, 282.

MARRIAGES, births, burials, bachelors and widowers, duty on (as by 6–7 Wm. III, c. 6 and 8–9 Wm. III., c. 20), commissioners for, clerk to, 166.
-, collectors of, 300.
-, improvement of, 243.
-, loans on, 32, 191.
-, managers of, clerks to, 221; messenger to, 221; salaries of, 221, 303.
-, parochial assessors of, 300.
-, Receivers General of, 86, 91, 93, 99, 188, 221, 227–8, 313, 341, 347.
-, Surveyors, etc., of, 12, 13, 14, 122, 136, 157, 166–8, 227–8, 243, 286, 300, 302–3, 313; salaries of, 48.
-, to be managed by Agents for Taxes, 5, 6, 12.

Mart, Letters of, 312.

Maundy, issues for, 94.

Mediterranean Duty. See Customs— duties, One per cent.

Merchants, 10, 33, 39, 62, 69, 71, 89, 99, 109, 155, 160, 170, 178, 184, 186, 187, 188, 190, 193, 195, 205, 206, 215, 222, 230, 231, 240, 244, 268, 271, 278, 279, 283, 296, 300, 307, 312, 314, 341; acceptance of Exchequer Bills, 284; persons pretending to negotiate business for, 199.

Messengers. See Chamber, The; King's Messenger.

Milled money. See Mint—money.

Million Florin loan from Holland, 12, 69, 72, 73, 285, 297, 299, 311.

Minerals, lease to search for, 219–20, 232.

MINT, THE —
-, blockmaker, 175.
-, clippers and coiners, estates of, 175, 294, 349; execution of, 294; rewards for discovering and apprehending, 60, 175, 215, 241, 250, 259, 268.
-, coinage Acts (8–9 Wm. III, c. 2), 88, 221; (8–9 Wm. III, c. 8), 288, 299.
-, coinage, hastening of, 20, 170; of Scotland, 46.
-, coining, instruments for, 2.
-, counterfeiters, 2, 241, 294.
-, Country mints, 3.
-, accounts, 5, 100.
-, at Bristol, 46, 70, 288; officer of, 192.
-, at Chester, 70, 204, 211, 271, 288; officer of, 68; warden of, 271.
-, at Exeter, 60, 70, 288.
-, at Norwich, 46, 70, 288; allegations concerning ill practices of officers of, 76, 310.
-, at York, 16, 17, 46, 70, 288; officers of, 159; tellers at, 119.
-, Deputies of, 100, 175.
-, Deputy Masters, weekly accounts of, 147.
-, dies for, 75, 186.
-, incidents of, 39.
-, plate, bringing in of, 29, 45; coining of, 70, 288; recompence for, 75.
-, dies and puncheons, 75, 186.
-, engraver, 186.
-, issues for, 9, 70, 72, 75, 287, 299, 304, 305, 306.
-, Master and Worker of, 70, 119, 287, 299, 304, 305, 306; weekly accounts of, 147.
-, medals, 75, 186.
-, melter and refiner, 271.
-, Money—
-, clipped, 12, 340; paid into the Exchequer, 179, 191; price of, 12; tellers for exchange of, 119.
-, counterfeit, 232.
-, hammered, 148, 201, 340.
-, account demanded of payments of, 3, 100.
-, adjudged not sterling, 204.
-, deficiency of, 88.
-, issues out of new money proceeding from, 8, 32, 122, 162, 192, 348.
-, loss by answering new money by tale on, 249.
-, melting and re-coining of, 44, 88–9, 135, 221, 299, 305, 310, 348.
-, price of, 46, 122, 135, 152, 166, 221, 299, 305, 306, 309, 348.
-, received for Excise, 89.
-, received from Customs and Excise officers, weekly account of, 25, 175.
-, Receivers of, 152.
-, recompence for, 72, 75.
-, milled, 142, 162, 246, 247; price of, 152; Receivers of, 152.
-, punched, 249.
-, Scotch, 12, 18, 46.
-, Moneyers, 29.
-, officers of, refusal to take silver, 171.
-, officers [Principal], 5, 25, 29, 39, 43, 44, 46, 58, 60, 67, 70, 75, 100, 170, 175, 185, 270, 271; report concerning pistols and louis d'or, 60; to report on currency of foreign gold, 257.
-, plate, bringing in of, 29.
-, coining of, 70; issues for, 287.
-, price of, 152.
-, Receivers for bringing in wrought plate, 91.
-, Receivers of, 152.
-, taking in of, 60.
-, tellers for exchange of, 119.
-, trial pieces, 2.
-, See also Mint—Country mints.
-, Pyx, trial of, 10, 20, 185.
-, silver, price of, 171.
-, Warden of, 88, 171, 175, 186, 294.
-, workmen of, 58.
-, works and charges of, 20, 78.

Money, allowances for bags in public offices to be discontinued, 76, 337; English Standard, 18; suspicious. See Exchequer— officers; See also Mint—money.

Moneyers. See Mint—Moneyers.

Monk, a Benedictine, pension granted to, 263.

Mum, duty on. See Excise—malt.

Murder, person executed for, 352; hanged for, 352.

Muslin neckcloths, seized, 160, 175.

Musters. See Army.