Mathias (129), a noted Anabaptist who, with John of Leyden, committed great excesses in the endeavour to set up a Kingdom of Mount Zion in Münster, Westphalia, 1535. Maximin (339), surnamed Thrax 'the Tracian.' Roman Emperor, 235-238. His cruel tyranny led to a revolt in which he was murdered by his Own soldiers. Meillerie (235), on the Lake of Geneva, immortalised by J. J. Rousseau. Merovingians (72), a dynasty of Frankish kings in the sixth and seventh centuries, embodiments of the principles of good and evil respectively, in the Zoroastrian religion. Padalon (231), the Hindu abode of departed spirits. Pastor Fido (19), a pastoral play, composed in 1585 by Guarini on the model of Aminta. Pescara (102), Marquis of. An Italian general (1490(?)1525), who betrayed to the emperor, Charles v., the plot of Francesco Sforza for driving the Spaniards and Germans out of Italy. Peters, Hugh (205), a famous Independent divine and chaplain to the Parliamentary forces, executed in 1660 for his alleged share in the death of Charles I. He was an upright and genial man, but somewhat lacking in moderation and taste. Pilpay (283), the Indian Æsop. For the pedigree of the Pilpay literature, see J. Jacobs: Fables of Bidpai (1888). Pisistratus and Gelon (116), two able Grecian tyrants who ruled beneficially at Athens (541-527, B. C.), and at Syracuse (484-478, B.C.), respectively. Politian (79), a distinguished poet and scholar in the time of the Italian Renaissance; professor of Greek and Latin at Florence (14541494). Pulci (79), a Florentine poet (noted for his humorous Sonnets), and friend of Lorenzo de'Medici (14321484). GLOSSARY Pye (231)-the immediateCibber (231)-a more remote -predecessor of Southey in the Laureateship. Quedlinburgh (299), an old town in Saxony at the foot of the Harz, long a favourite residence of the mediæval emperors. Relapse (260), a comedy by Sir John Vanbrugh (d. 1726), who also achieved some distinction as a soldier and as an architect. Richard Roe (67), a nominal defendant in ejectment suits. Cp. the 'M. or N.' of the Prayer-Book. Rymer (Thomas) (343), Historiographer-royal, and the compiler of Fœdera a collection of historical documents concerning the relations of England and foreign powers (1639-1714). Salmacius (48), the Latin name of Claude de Saumaise, an eminent French scholar and linguist (15881653), whose Defence of Charles I. provoked Milton's crushing reply, Defensio pro populo Angli cano. Scroggs (169), the infamous Chief-Justice of the King's Somers (122), the counsel for the Seven Bishops, 1688. He filled many high legal VOL. I. 385 offices and from 1708 to 1710 was President of the Council. Statius (285), a Latin poet (61-96, A.D.), author of the Thebaïs, who lived at the court of Domitian. Swerga (231), the Hindu Olympus on the summit of Mount Meru. Talus (57), Sir Artegal's iron man, who in Spenser's Faery Queen, Book v., represents the executive power of State Justice. Tamerlane (80), the great Asiatic conqueror (13361405), whose empire reached from the Levant to the Ganges. Thalia (94), the muse of Comedy and one of the three Graces. Thurtell, John (150), a notorious boxer and gambler (b. 1794), who was hanged at Hertford on January 9th, 1824, for the brutal murder of William Weare, one of his boon-companions. Thyrsis (20), a herdsman in the Idylls of Theocritus; similarly a shepherd in Virgil's Eclogues; hence a rustic or shepherd. Turgot (351), a French statesman (1727-1781), who held the doctrines of the philosophe party and was for nearly two years manager of the national finances under Louis XVI. Vaucluse (235), a village in South-East France, twenty miles from Avignon, where 2 B INDEX TO VOL. I ÆSCHYLUS AND THE GREEK Drama, 17, 29. Armies in the middle ages, Art of War, Machiavelli's, Authors, their present position, BANKING OPERATIONS OF ITALY Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen policy of government in Book of the Church, Southey's, on Bribery, foreign, in the time of |