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Machine ships. See Navy—ships; Ordnance.

Malt. See Excise—malt.

Manorial rents etc. See Rents.

Manors—named:
-, Barne; Barnsley cum Dodsworth; Barrow; Barton; Birling; Birstall Garth; Bonyalva; Boyton; Bray; Bucklawren; Calstock; Catterick; Climsland Prior; Cookham; Denbigh, Drakelow; East Farleigh; East Greenwich; East Peckham; Eye; Eye Hall; Farrington Gurney; Goxhill; Grantham; Grinton; Guildford; Hendon; Heywood; Hogsthorpe; Hooe Court; Horham Comitis; Hornsea; Iham; Kennington; Knucklas; Leven; Lucan; Macclesfield; Marylebone; Merston; Midsomer Norton; Molesey; Moresk; Moyally; Newcastle; Page Street; Patrington; Penrith; Penryn; Petersham and Ham; Pickering; Richmond and Sheen; Rillaton; Rudheath; Shippon; South Ruralt; Stoke Climsland; Stradbroke; Stratton super Fosse; Swingfield; Terrington; Thornton Bridge; Thwing; Treverbyn Courtney; Upton; West Anthony; West Harting.

Marine Regiments, 59, 72.
-, clothing and beds for, 132, 300, 338.
-, colonels of, 252, 300, 338.
-, First Regiment, 132, 300; colonel of, 423; commissaries, pay of, 300.
-, officers of, pay for the year 1695, 68, 252, 300.
-, Second Regiment, 300, 338.

Marque, letters of, 168.

Marriages, births and burials, duty on (as by 6–7 Wm. & Mary, c. 6), commissioners of, 155, 257.
-, estimated yearly produce from, 322.
-, estimate of deficiency on, 322.
-, loans on, 95; account of, 318; payment out of, 300.
-, Receivers General of, 67, 155, 257, 302, 313, 330, 424.

Maundy, issues for, 76, 265.

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

Melting house. See Mint.

Milled money. See Mint—Money.

Million Adventure. See Lotteries.

Mint:
-, clippers and coiners, estates of, 17, 26, 49, 154, 311.
-, prosecutions, 54, 69, 72, 93, 113, 153, 212, 213, 256, 273, 310, 334, 378, 417.
-, executions, 176, 293, 311, 406.
-, rewards for apprehending, 388, 399.
-, clippings, claim to by sheriffs, 44, 50, 53, 266; seizure of, 50.
-, coinage Acts (7 Wm. III, c. 1), (7–8 Wm. III, c. 19), (8–9 Wm. III, c. 2), (8–9 Wm. III, c. 8), 2, 102, 167, 195, 198, 259, 336, 338, 341, 369, 437.
-, plate coined under, 14, 195, 198, 229, 248, 326, 336, 363, 364, 365, 382, 437.
-, coinage duty, loans on, 2; issues out of loans on, 107.
-, coinage money, issues out of, 433.
-, coinage, overseeing of, 34, 190.
-, Commissioners, salary of, 2.
-, Comptrollers of, 27, 28, 226, 340, 369, 399, 435; oath of, 399.
-, Country mints, 27, 28, 40, 55, 337, 406.
-, accounts, 27.
-, at Bristol, 16, 151, 226, 286; comptroller of, 43, 226; silver for, 44.
-, at Chester, 49, 50, 70, 287, 362; officers of, 287; silver for, 44.
-, at Exeter, 9; assistant in, 363; credit for, 30, 33; erection of, 11, 286; materials for, 248; officers for, 13, 145; silver for, 44; survey of the work done at, 405, 406.
-, at Hereford, 9, 16, 151.
-, at Norwich, 9, 151, 287; misdemeanours of the deputy at, 376; officers of, 287; silver for, 44.
-, at Warwick, 16.
-, at York, 9; erection of, 11, 286; officers for, 13, 145; silver for, 44.
-, comptrollers of, 40.
-, deputies for, 26.
-, dies for, 16; polishing of, 39.
-, issues for, 32, 43, 48, 70, 229, 231, 241.
-, marking tools for, 18.
-, materials for, 10.
-, mills for, 11, 18, 23, 118, 191.
-, officers for, 26, 27, 151, 242.
-, plate coined in, recompense of 6d. per ounce, 330.
-, preparation for, 1, 10, 16, 26, 286.
-, presses for, 118, 214.
-, proposal for coining farthings and half-pence in, 344.
-, re-coinage of clipped money at, 40, 256; account to be kept, 242.
-, recompense of 6d. per ounce for, 70.
-, workmen for, 18, 59.
-, dies and puncheons in, 351, 358.
-, engravers, 107, 216, 351.
-, gold, delivered back from, 5.
-, issues for, 2, 32, 39, 40, 43, 54, 61, 64, 69, 209, 256, 287, 293, 311, 326, 364. See also Mint— Master and Worker, assistant to.
-, Master and Worker of, 18, 19, 54, 89, 118, 130, 141, 182, 214, 222, 229, 231, 241, 326, 337, 338, 363, 369; contract for ironwork, 18; place of, 28; profits of, 28; salary of, 28; payments by, 191, 310, 433; assistant to, issues for as recompense for coining plate and clipped money, and for the mint, 326; oath of, 399.
-, Melter of, 141, 229.
-, melting house, 1, 12, 80, 134, 151.
-, money, brass, 403, 404.
-, clipped, 4, 19, 20, 21, 154, 270, 320, 334, 336, 381, 382.
-, Act (6 & 7 Wm. III, c. 17) to prevent counterfeiting and clipping, 218.
-, deficiency of, 20, 88, 319, 320, 321, 398; account of, 236.
-, loans in, 190, 191, 215, 236, 256, 261; interest on, 256; payments in new money out of, 48, 50, 70, 195, 198, 234, 238, 241, 256, 257, 273, 274, 278, 280, 287, 296, 307, 329, 333, 356, 398.
-, paid into the Exchequer, 3, 94, 259, 320, 336; account of, 34, 46, 192; amounts of, 260, 336; book of, to be kept, 191; deficiency of, 318, 320; directions concerning, 191.
-, price of, per ounce, 40, 47, 70, 191, 215, 236, 242, 248, 256, 403.
-, recoinage of, 12, 40, 134, 141, 184, 236, 242, 256, 336, 337; recompense for, 326.
-, refinement of, 40, 44, 229, 236, 256.
-, security of, at the Exchequer, 12.
-, to be collected by payments on assessments etc., 2, 3, 17, 28, 43, 59, 94, 102, 173, 259, 299, 347, 348, 349.
-, to be kept separate in the Exchequer, 94.
-, hammered, 72, 73, 191; Act (8–9 Wm. III, c. 7) to encourage the bringing in of, 425; deficiency of, 369; directions to the Exchequer to take loans in, 317; loans in, issues of out new money proceeding from, 336, 340, 347, 358, 373, 381, 405, 414; melting and recoining of, 328, 338, 339, 341, 369; price of, 317, 320, 339, 341, 345, 357, 381, 405; received for Excise, statement of demanded, 341.
-, milled, 26, 153, 221, 256, 296; seizure of, 212.
-, new invention for rounding, and for marking the edges of, 149, 399.
-, punched, 27, 28, 167, 369.
-, Moneyers, Provost and fellows of the corporation of, 16, 18, 31, 55, 59, 67, 141, 351; petition for an allowance for recoining clipped money, 337.
-, nealing house, 31.
-, Officers of, 16, 17, 30, 31, 38, 39, 43, 49, 55, 59, 70, 113, 134, 151, 187, 281, 284, 286, 345, 346, 349, 362; to work during holy days, 19, 157; order to concerning new trial pieces of silver, 429.
-, plate, Act (8–9 Wm. III, c. 7) to encourage the bringing in of, 425; Act (8–9 Wm. III, c. 8), order under for the preparation of standard trial pieces of silver, 429.
-, allowances to undertakers for melting etc. and coining, 363.
-, coined, 14; recompense for, 326.
-, for coining, price of, 363, 397, 437.
-, loans for financing the taking in of, 363, 364, 365.
-, melted at the Exchequer, 363.
-, Receivers for taking in wrought plate for coining 437.
-, standard trial pieces for, 364.
-, porter, house of, 1, 80, 281.
-, presses, 184, 222; from Lancashire, 2, 89; from Wales, 54, 256.
-, Pyx, disposable money in, 28, 43, 229; trial of, 26, 187, 229; entertainment at the trial of, 284, 315.
-, silver, standardising of, 12; price of, 40, 71, 72, 73; supply of, 141. sweeps of, 182.
-, Warden of, 16, 17, 18, 26, 32, 38, 49, 50, 54, 154, 184, 212, 255, 256, 301, 337, 338, 369; allowance to for an additional clerk, 310, 325; deputy to, 154.
-, weigher of, 30.
-, workmen of, 19, 59; account of, 141; liberty to enter the Tower at 6 in the morning, 349; wages and maintenance for, 118.
-, works at, survey of, 11, 12, 68, 312.

Money, illegal export of, 292. See also Mint—Money.

Moneyers. See Mint—Moneyers.

Money orders. See Exchequer Receipt.

Murder, person executed for, 426.

Muscovy fabric, 209, 223.

Musters. See Army.