Chapter Maximilian to Mazeppa of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

(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 (queen Elizabeth was his granddaughter)	1457

Maypole (The), the nickname given to Erangard Melosine de Schulemberg, duchess of Kendal, the mistress of George I., on account of her leanness and height (1719, died 1743).

Mazagran, in Algeria. Ever since the capture of this town by the French, black coffee diluted with cold water for a beverage has been called un Mazagran.

Mazarin of Letters (The), DAlembert (1717–1783).

Mazarine (A), a common councilman 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).

(Bulgarin has made this story the subject of a novel; and Horace Vernet of two paintings.)

“Muster Richardson” had a fine appreciation of genius, and left the original “Mazeppa” at Astley’s a handsome legacy [1766–1836].—Mark Lemon.