Mallet's, Mons., Introduction to the His-
tory of Denmark, reference to, ii.
352, 362.
Man-at-arms, Gray's description of a,
iii. 394.

Manchester, Duke of, reported to have
an ancient genealogy of the English
kings, with portrait of Richard III.,
iii. 309.

Manduit, Mr., pamphlet against the
German war, iii. 91.

Mann, Horace, entertains Gray at
Florence, ii. 52.

description of his residence, ii. 86.
Gray sends him a parcel of books, ii.
128.

reference to his sufferings, ii. 132.
Manning of Brun, Robert, his octo-
syllabic rhyme, i. 353.

translator of Peter Langtoft's chron-
icle, i. 353, 356.

Mapletoft, John, Fellow of Pembroke,
reference to, ii. 288; iii. 69, 183.
note on, iii. 69.
Marcello, see Delaval, ii. 155.
Margaret of Anjou, foundress of
Queen's College, i. 95.
Margaret, Lady, Countess of Rich-

mond, foundress of St. John's
College, portrait of, i. 310.
Margate, like Bartholomew fair, flown
down into Kent, iii. 240.
Mari, Huon de, Tournoyement d'Anti-
christ of, i. 337.

Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary,
Gray's sympathy with, ii. 129, 134.
Marivaux, Gray recommends the ro-
mances of, ii. 107.

his novel of Marianne, ii. 128.
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, quar-

rel with Duchess of Queensberry,
ii. 133.

Marriage, the Fatal, tragedy by South-
erne, ii. 11.

Marriott, Sir James, Master of Trinity,
visits Gray, iii. 182.

notes relative to, iii. 182, 296.
competitor with Gray for the Chair

of Modern History, iii. 320, 324.
raises a subscription for a musical
amphitheatre, iii. 331.
reference to, iii. 331.
Marsham, Mr., assists in the compila-

tion of the Catalogue of ancient
authors, ii. 158.

Martin, Jaques, Religion of the Ancient
Gauls cited by, ii. 294.

Martinique, command of the expedi
tion refused by seven generals, ii.

385.

Mary, Queen of Scots, furniture used
by her at Wingfield religiously pre-
served at Hardwick, iii. 136.
Masinissa and Sophonisba, story by, ii.

115-116.

Mason, Rev. William, his inordinate
vanity, i. xv.

his capacity for writing sublime
Odes, i. 36.

opinion of Gray's Education and
Government, i. 121.

gives the origin of Gray's Ode on
Vicissitude, i. 123.

Shakespeare verses sent to, i. 133.
Gray sends him some comic lines, i.
138.

elegiacal Epitaph on his wife, im-
proved by Gray, i. 141.

his opinion of the picturesque point
in landscape, i. 260.

The Progress of Poetry delayed by a
remark of, ii. 111.

Ode to a Water Nymph by, ii. 184.
Gray's opinion of him, ii. 184, 196-
197, 212.

Ode on the Installation of the Duke of
Newcastle, ii. 196.

Gray's comment on Elfrida, ii. 212;
iii. 148.

Gray sends a copy of Elfrida to Wal-
pole, ii. 213.

elected a Fellow of Pembroke College,
ii. 188.

contributes an Ode to Dodsley's Mis-
cellaneous Poems, ii. 222.

Essays on church music, ii. 241.
his attainments in the composition
of music, ii. 242.

Gray comments on the death of the
father of, ii. 242, 243.

his loss of fortune, ii. 243.

death of his friend Dr. Pricket, ii. 244.
his fellowship his sole support, ii.
246.

presented to the prebend of Holme
through John Hutton, ii. 250,
261.

on the use of the strophe, etc. ii. 263.
Gray influences the style of Carac-
tacus, ii. 262.

gives Gray's reason for changing his
college, ii. 279.

publication of four new Odes, ii. 280.
suffering from his eyes, ii. 299, 366,
387, 392; iii. 205, 206, 207.
promised Irish preferment, ii. 287.
his interest sought on behalf of Dr
Brown for Mastership of Peter
house, ii. 288.

resides in Arlington Street, ii. 289.

Mason, Rev. William, his chair given by
Mitford to a poet laureate, ii. 299.
Gray sends a fragment of The Bard,
ii. 312-313.

Chaplain in ordinary to George II.,
ii. 326.

his proposition to write a comment
on Gray's Odes, ii. 329.
in waiting, ii. 332.

christens Mr. Dayrolles's child and
Lady Yarmouth's son, ii. 353-354.
criticism of his Elegies, ii. 354-358.
and the Duchess of Norfolk, ii. 367.
and Sir Conyers d'Arcy, ii. 367.
his poetical exertion attributed by
Gray to rivalry, ii. 368.

his uncle Dr. Balguy, ii.. 368.

Dr. Warburton sends his New Lega-
tion to, ii. 369.

Gray tries to quell his quarrel with
Garrick, ii. 376.

goes to Aston for the winter and

saves a curate, ii. 383.
and Lord Holdernesse, ii. 383.
his poetical indolence, ii. 394.
plants some roses for Hurd at

Thurcaston, ii. 397.

boasts of his skill in planting, ii. 397.
entertains Gaskarth at Aston, iii. 9.
Lord Holdernesse sends him much
news, iii. 9.

Syon Hill his place of residence, iii.

Mason, Rev. William, acquires the
friendship of Fred. Hervey, iii. 77.
made a Residentiary of York and
Precentor, iii. 82, 108.
established at York, iii. 125.
Letters to Lord D. in Royal or Lady's
Magazine, iii. 131.

his reflections on Kitty Hunter, iii.
131.

Gray staying with him at York, iii.

132.

his position as Precentor, iii. 132-133.
Gray's criticism of Elegy V. on the

Death of a Lady, iii. 139.

Count Algarotti sends him a pane-
gyric on his Odes, iii. 151.
repining at his twenty-four weeks'
residence at York, iii. 161.

makes a collection for C. Smart, iii.

162.

his acquaintance with Bedingfield,
iii. 163.

Gray's criticism of one of his Sonnets,
iii. 163, 199.

Gray recommends the music of Carlo
Bach to, iii. 164.
tendency to marry, iii. 168.
modelling antique vases in clay, iii.
171.

reference to "future bride," iii. 183.
reference to his betrothment and note
on date of his marriage, iii. 198, 202,
207.

Gray's Sonnet to his servant Mrs.
Anne, iii. 205-206.

Gray's reasons for not visiting him at
York, but sends his blessing to
both, iii. 223.

Mrs., said to be very handsome, iii,
224; by no means in health, iii.
232, 244; Dr. Heberden thinks her
irretrievably gone in consumption,
iii. 244.

grown extremely fat and his wife
lean, iii. 244.

Gray sends in disguise his wickedness
to Dr. Gisborne, iii. 246.
opportunity of his obtaining other
preferment than York, iii. 253.
Mrs., anxiety concerning, iii. 252;
Gray's description of, iii. 258; Gray
enquires after her health, iii. 261;
Lord Holdernesse offers the use of
Walmer Castle for Mr. and, iii. 262;
Gray advises Ramsgate for, iii. 263;
Gray's letter of sympathy on death
of, iii. 265.

his esteem of Gray's letter, 266.
Gray writes part of Mrs. Mason's
Epitaph, iii. 266.

date of his death, iii. 164.

Gray criticises an Epitaph written at
the Archbishop's request, iii. 274-
275, 278.

remonstrated with upon withdrawal
of the Epitaph, iii. 276.
reference to another Epitaph that
moved Dr.Wharton to tears, iii. 276.
Cambridge society anxious to see
him, iii. 296-297.

with Stonehewer at Queen Street in
London, iii. 317.
informed of Gray's appointment as
Professor of Modern Languages,
iii. 322-323.

rectory of Oddington in his gift, iii.
328.

reported to be married, iii. 331.
complaint of his circulation of Gray's
lines on Lord Holland's seat, iii. 334.
Gray cannot visit him from Old Park
owing to difficulty of road to
York, iii. 348.

Gray tells him of his travels in the
western counties, iii. 381.
passes the winter in Curzon Street,
iii. 404.

references to, ii. 251, 260, 261, 262,
283, 285; iii. 1, 15, 50, 63, 65, 97,
131, 149, 150, 282, 296, 297, 303.
see also Caractacus.
Materialism, discourse on, ii. 373-375.
Mathematics, Gray's aversion to, ii. 5.
Mathias, T. J., first publishes the Essay

on Norman Architecture, i. 294.
observations on English metre, i. 324.
his 4tc edition of Gray forms the
basis of Mr. Morris's Graiana, iv.
339.
Mattei, Colomba, her success as a
singer, iii. 80.

Maty, Matthew, M.D., librarian of
British Museum, iii. 6.
Maurus, Rhabanus, Archbishop of

Mentz in 847, his Glossary of the
Bible, i. 363.

May, Ode on, Gray praises Richard
West's, ii, 112.

May 29th, Latin poem on the, i. 166.
May, N., quarrels with Dr. Long, ii.

155.

interests himself on behalf of C.
Smart, ii. 178.

May, Dr. Samuel, Fellow of Pembroke,
ii. 288.

May, Thomas, precedes Gray as a
dramatiser of Agrippina, ii. 106.
Maynard, Lord, his seat near Dunmow,
iii. 139.

patron of Richard Forrester, iii. 139.
Mead, Dr. Richard, his corpulence, ii.
117.

Méchant, Le, comedy by Gresset, ii. 183.
Villemain's praise of, ii. 183.
Gray recommends it, ii. 184.
Mediocrity, Gresset's Ode on, ii. 184.
Melara, a favourite of Benedict XIV.,
ii. 93.
Melbourne, first Lord, a son of Sir
Matthew Lamb, ii. 346.
Melmoth, William, author of Sir Thos.
Fitzosborne's Letters, ii. 222.
Melpomene, an Ode, Gray enquires who
wrote it, ii. 338.

Gray thanks Mason for the history of,
ii. 338.

Melton, Archbishop of York, built the
Minster nave, iii. 147.
Memoires, Duclos's, ii. 291.
de la Porte, ii. 291.

de Madame Staël, ii. 291.
Memoirs, Ludlow's, ii 128.
Memoirs of a celebrated Literary and
Political Character, ii. 293.
Memory, half a word written on or

near the spot worth a cartload of
recollection, ii. 380.

Merope, by Aaron Hill, acted on behalf
of C. Smart, ii. 391.

Merveille, Arnauld de, his metre, i. 334.
Message-cards, paper in Museum on, by
H. Walpole, ii. 143.
Metaphysics, Gray's dislike of, ii. 5.
Methodism, Pembroke College owes
its preservation from fire to, iii. 301.
Methodist singing-man, reference to a,
iii. 297.

Metre, observations on English, i. 323-
409; editorial note, i. 324.

use of the Anglo-Saxon prefixes, i.
326.

use of final syllable of verbs, i. 326-
327.

termination of "an" or "eon" omit-
ted after settlement of Danes, i. 327.
insertion or omission of initial or
final letters intended to perfect
the measure, i. 327.

use of the Cæsure, i. 329-330, 332, 333.
example from Milton, i, 332.
example from Lord Surrey, i. 333.
Ryme Dogrell, i. 330, 339.

examples from Fabian, i. 330.

Metre Alexandrines, i. 331, 357.
the decasyllabic measure, i. 333.
example from Wyatt, i. 334.
example from Surrey, i. 334.
example from Spenser, i. 341.
heroic measure of the Italian, i. 334.
Riding Rhyme, i. 335, 336, 339.

example from Chaucer, i. 335.
example from Spenser, i. 339.
attempt to introduce the hexameter,
sapphic, etc., in the reign of Eliza-
beth, i. 341.
Measures of Verse, i. 343-360.

Rime Plate of the French, i. 343.
Versi Sciolti of the Italians, i. 343.
Ottava Rima of the Italians, i. 347.
Terzetti, or Terza Rima, its invention,
i. 348.

Sonnet, its invention, i. 349.
Sestine, i. 350.

Canzoni of the Italians, i. 351.
Octosyllabic, i. 353.

Couwe, i. 354.

of the Vision of Pierce Plowman, i.
369.

Metre of Lydgate's time uniform to

the ear, if not to the eye, i. 393.
Michell, Mr., an acquaintance of Dr.
Wharton, i. 262.
Middleton, Mr., his residence near
Burnley, i. 280.

Middleton, Dr. Conyers, his Cicero,
ii. 128.

his work on the Roman Senate, ii.
163, 175.

presented with a sinecure by Sir J.
Frederick, ii. 163.

his Inquiry into the Miraculous Power
of the Church, ii. 163.

his income, ii. 164.

Gray laments his death, and the loss of

an old acquaintance, ii. 199; iii. 151.
his writings analysed by Mr. Leslie
Stephen, ii. 199.

Thomas Asheton writes against, ii.

210.

opposes Dr. Waterland's Doctrine of
the Trinity, ii. 215, 216.
his Miscellaneous Works, ii. 215.
his influence on the Essay on the
Philosophy of Lord Bolingbroke, i.
286.

Midridate, Prince, reference to, ii. 227.
Milbourne, Mr., Fellow of Pembroke,
ii. 288.

Mildmay, Sir Anthony, his portrait in
Emanuel College, i. 310.
Mildmay, Sir Walter, founder of
Emanuel, his portrait in that Col-
lege, i. 310.

Minden, French storm, ii. 402.
victory at, iii. 8.

Mingotti, famous singer, ii. 282, 305;
iii. 20, 21.

Ministry, probable change of, iii. 153.
their narrow majorities, iii. 168.
altogether by the ears, so are the
Opposition, iii. 181.

subversion of, on its last legs, iii.
204.

position of, in Dec. 1767, iii. 293, 294.
Minorca, reference to its loss by
Admiral Byng, ii. 284.

Miraculous Powers in the Church, Free
Inquiry into the, by Dr. C. Mid-
dleton, ii. 164.

Miraculous Powers, Warburton on, ii.
128.

Mirepoix, Madame de, daughter of
Prince Craon, ii. 85.

Mirror of Magistrates, a supplement to
The Fall of Princes, i. 409.
Mitford relates the cause of R. West's
death, ii. 113.
Mob Grammar, The.
Gray, i. 142.

Lost piece by

Modena, Duke of, his collection of
paintings at, ii. 50.

Modern History and Languages, Gray
appointed to the Chair of, iii. 318.
Professorship unsolicited by Gray,
iii. 319

his competitors for, iii. 320.
Gray's feelings on kissing hands for,
iii. 323.

worth £400 a year, iii. 326.
Money, its effect, ii. 155.
Mongon, Abbe de, Memoires of, ii. 200.
Monosyllables, their prevalent use in
rhyme, i. 396.

Montagu, Duke of, his preservation of
Kirkstall, i. 281.

Montagu, Frederick, Gray in town with,
ii. 284.

Gray sends him a copy of The Odes,
ii. 320.

proposed visit with Gray to Cam-
bridge, iii. 104.

obtains the Residentiary of York for
Mason, iii. 82.

appointed an executor to Sir William
Williams, iii. 104.

Montagu, Frederick, induces Gray to
write an Epitaph on Sir William
Williams, i. 128; iii. 109.
Montagu, Frederick, of Paplewick.
Did he write Melpomene? ii. 338.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, public
opinion of her poems, ii. 222.
story of her fictitious gift to Com-
modore Barnet, iii. 91, 100.
story related by Lord Camelford
to her parsimony, iii. 99-100.
her Dialogues of the Dead, iii. 42.
Montagu, Wortley, his death, iii. 90.
his wealth and testamentary be-
quests, iii. 90-91, 99.
Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Lois, its
effect on Gray, i. 113; ii. 191, 193,

199.

as

his Voix du Sage et du Peuple, ii.

229.
Monthly Review, matter relative to G.
Colman, Mason, and Gray, ii. 57.
Moore, Edward, his comedy of Gil
Blas, ii. 213.
Moorfields, penny literature sold on
the rails of, ii. 258.

Mora, Madame de, at Miss Chudleigh's
ball, iii. 62.

Moral and Political Dialogues, by Hurd,
ii. 325.

Morceau, first part of Gray's Bard, ii.
266.

Mordaunt, Sir John, to take part in a

secret military expedition, ii. 320.
his part in the attack on Rochefort,

ii. 342.

Morley, his proposed marriage, ii. 155.
Morrice, Gil, or Child Maurice, the old
ballad of, ii. 316.

Morris, Mr. John, description of his
fine collection of Graiana from the
Dawson-Turner and Dillon collec-
tions. iv. 339-343.

Morris, Lewis, on ancient British
poetry, i. 382.

Mortimer, Edmond de, i. 42
Morton, Dr. Charles, of British Museum,

reference to, and note on, iii. 117.
Muffs worn by the countrymen in
France (1739), ii. 19.

Mugherino tree, reference to a, ii. 126.
Müller, J. S., engraver of the initial
letters in Gray's Elegy, ii. 234.
Murdin's, William, Collection of Eliza-
bethan State Papers, ii. 396.
Murray, Mr. John, possessor of the
MS. of Gray's Journal in France, i.
xvii., 236.

Murray, William, Solicitor-General, and
Lord Balmerino, ii. 142.

Musgrave, J., his verses on the death
of Frederick, Prince of Wales, ii.

119.

Music, Mason's Essays on Church, ii. 242.
Music, MS., enumeration of the valu-

able collection made by Gray in
Italy, and sold at Mitford's sale,
iii. 164.

Musical composition, English language
not adapted to, iii. 158.

Expression, Avison's Essay on, iii.
242.

glasses, see Glasses, water, iii. 125.

NARES, Archdeacon, his opinion of
Lady Hervey, iii. 62.

Natural history, Gray's keen observa-
tions in, iii. 383.
Needham, Mr., tutor to Lord Gormans-

town, his discovery and interpreta-
tion of an ancient inscription, iii. 85.
Netley Abbey, references to and de-
scription of, ii. 266; iii. 177-178,
180.

Nevelois, Jean li, his poem of La Vie
d'Alexandre, i. 357.

Neville, F., his verses on the death of

Frederick, Prince of Wales, ii. 119.
Neville, Thomas, of Jesus College,

Gray shows him the Bard, ii. 314.
biographical note on, ii. 314.
Gray sends him a copy of The Odes,
ii. 320.

he and the old musicians do not
appreciate Carlo Bach, iii. 164.
New Bath Guide, by C. Anstey, iii. 240,

245.

Newcastle, Gray and Dr. Wharton visit,
iii. 281.

Newcastle, Duke of, his journal going
to Hanover, one of the lost pieces
of Gray, i. 142.

installation as Chancellor of Cam-
bridge University, ii. 195.

laying a foundation-stone at Cam-
bridge, and Gray's desire to avoid
him, ii. 259.

probable interest on behalf of Mr.
Addison, ii. 288.

called by Gray the fizzling Duke, and
by Dr. Warner Hubble-bubbie, ii.
368.

probable visit to Cambridge to open
a new library, ii. 368.

Gray does not stay to receive him at
Cambridge, ii. 370.

his remark to Bishop Yonge, ii. 371.
effect of his sister's death upon the,
ii. 402.