| Lord Mayor. | |
| Aveland (Lord), from Sir Gilbert Heathcote | 1711 |
| Bacon (Lord), from Sir Thomas Cooke, draper | 1557 |
| Bath (Marquis of), from Sir Rowland Heyward, cloth-worker | 1570 |
| Braybrooke (Lord), from Sir John Gresham, grocer | 1547 |
| Brook (Lord), from Sir Samuel Dashwood, vintner | 1702 |
| Buckingham (Duke of), from Sir John Gresham, grocer | 1547 |
| Compton (Lord), from Sir Wolston Dixie, skinner | 1585 |
| Cranbourne (Viscount), from Sir Christopher Gascoigne | 1753 |
| Denbigh (Earl of), from Sir Godfrey Fielding, mercer | 1452 |
| Donne (Viscount), from Sir Gilbert Heathcote | 1711 |
| Fitzwilliam (Earl of), from Sir Thomas Cooke, draper | 1557 |
| Palmerston (Lord), from Sir John Houblon, grocer | 1695 |
| Salisbury (Marquis of), from Sir Thomas Cooke, draper | 1557 |
| Warwick (Earl of), from Sir Samuel Dashwood, vintner | 1702 |
| Wiltshire (Earl of), from Sir Godfrey Boleine | 1457 |
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Maypole (The), the nickname given to Erangard Melousine de Schulemberg, duchess of Kendal, the mistress of George I., on account of her leanness and height (1719, died, 1743).
Mazarin of Letters (The), D’Alembert (1717-1783).
Mazarine (A), a common council-man of London; so called from the mazarine-blue silk gown worn by this civil functionary.
Mazeppa (Jan), a hetman of the Cossacks, born of a noble Polish family in Podolia. He was a page in the court of Jan Casimir, king of Poland, and while in this capacity intrigued with Theresia, the young wife of a Podolian count, who discovered the amour, and had the young page lashed to a wild horse, and turned adrift. The horse rushed in mad fury, and dropped down dead in the Ukraine, where Mazeppa was released by a Cossack, who nursed him carefully in his own hut. In time the young page became a prince of the Ukraine, but fought against Russia in the battle of Pultowa. Lord Byron (1819) makes Mazeppa tell his tale to Charles XII. after the battle (1640-1709).
“Muster Richardson” had a fine appreciation of genius, and left the original “Mazeppa” at Astley’s a handsome legacy [1766-1836].—Mark Lemon.
M. B. Waistcoat, a clerical waistcoat. M. B. means “Mark [of the] Beast;” so called because, when these waistcoats were first worn by Protestant clergymen (about 1830), they were stigmatized as indicating a popish tendency.
He smiled at the folly which stigmatized an M. B. waistcoat—Mrs. Oliphant, Phœbe, Jun., ii. 1.
McGrath (Miss Jane), “is a woman. Uv course doorin’ the war she wuz loyal ez she understood loyalty. She believed in her State. She hed two brothers which went into the Confedrit servis, and she gave ’em both horses. But wood any sister let her brother go afoot?... Her case is one wich I shel push the hardest.... Ef Congress does not consider it favorably it will show that Congress hez no bowels.”—D. R. Locke’s, The Struggles—Social, Financial and Political—of Petroleum, V. Nasby.
Meadows (Sir William), a kind country gentleman, the friend of Jack Eustace, and father of young Meadows.