The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history : containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, ... heresiarchs, ... emperors, ... and all those who have recommended themselves to the world ... together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders ... ; [with] The genealogy of several illustrious families in Europe ; The fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes ; The description of empires, kingdoms ... / collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery ... his sixth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clark ... now done into English ; to which are added by way of supplement ... the lives ... and writings of the illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility ... clergy ; as also an exact description of these kingdoms ... by several learned men ; wherein are inserted the last five years historical and geographical collections of Edmond Bohun ... never extant till in this work.

• Muavia, the seventh Caliph and Head of the Saracens, who conquered Africa. This Prince began his Conquests by the Coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, called now the Coast of Barba∣ry, and formerly Mauritania, whence came the Name of Moors. Afterwards he went farther into Africa, conquered Spain, and ravaged Italy and France. Sometime after his death the vast Empire of the Saracens was divided into several parts; for Persia, Egypt, Africa properly so named, and Spain, had particu∣lar Lords who refused to obey the Caliph of Syria any longer. Birague's Hist. Africaine.
• Muça, a famous General sent by Gualid, Caliph of Syria, in∣to Africa in 710, to subdue the rebellious Africans, whom he reduced with an Army of 100000 Men, going through the Desarts of Barca and Barbary, as far as Teftane or Tefetna, in the Kingdom of Morocco; and finding no more Land that way, he spurred on his Horse into the Ocean, out of a Bra∣vado, to signifie that there was nothing more to conquer. After this Expedition he went back to Carvan, leaving Taric to govern those Provinces. Julian, Earl of Ceuta (a Govern∣ment belonging to the Goths of Spain) hearing that his Daugh∣ter Caba had been forced by Roderick, King of Spain, because of her great Beauty, dissembled this Affront, and took occasi∣on of the Arabians War in Africa to go to his Government, with all his Family, except his Daughter, who had afterwards leave to visit her dying Mother. Then being in her Father's power, he resolved to be revenged of the King, and offered Muça, not only to surrender all the Towns of his Government unto him, but to make him Master of all Spain besides, if he would lend him an Army. Muça having acquainted Gualid with this Proposition, had leave to send 12000 Men under Taric in 712, and to follow him with the best part of his Troops; so that in fourteen months time he ruined the Em∣pire of the Goths, and destroyed them all. Spain was then in∣habited by Arabians and Africans, and the rest of the Gothish Nobility retired towards the Pyrenaean Mountains. Muça and Taric quarrelling in 718. Taric being abused went back to Damasc••, where he charged Mu••a with Sedition and other Crimes. Muça was called to an Account; but he found Gua∣lid a-dying at his Arrival; and Solyman Hascein succeeding his Brother Gualid, took away the Government of Africa and Spain from Muça, who died for Grief. His Son, Abdulasis, maintained himself in Spain, where he took the Title of King. Marmol de l' Afrique l. 2.
• Muches, or Miches, (John) a Jew, who being saved with the other Jews and Moors that had been turned out of Spain un∣der Philip II. was sent to Venice by them, to ask leave to settle somewhere in their Republick; being denyed, notwithstanding all his Offers, he retired to Constantinople, where by his Presents and Advices to the greatest Men at the Port, he was known by Solyman II. and Selym II. his Successor. Being familiar with Selym, who took great delight in Drinking, he commended much the Wines, Fruits, Fertility and Riches of Cyprus, which Island he said did belong to the Grand Signiors, because Selym I. conque∣red Egypt, upon which Cyprus depended. He persuaded him also that the Venetians had usurped it, and that it was easie to take it from them, because they could have no Assistance from France, Spain or Poland, and that their Arsenal had been lately burnt. All this was true enough. So that this revengefull Jew be∣ing backed by Mustapha Bassaw, encouraged the Sultan to send out a Fleet, and to conquer Cyprus in 1572. Chevreau's Hist. du Mond
• Muer, a River of Germany named in German, Die Mur; Lat. Mura and Murum. It's head is in the Diocess of Saltzburg, and runs into the Drave near Hungary.
• Muet (Peter le) The King of France's Counsellor, Engineer and Architect; the most famous Architect of his time. He com∣mented on and composed many Works. He built the stately Church of Val-de-grace at Paris, and died in 1669. Memoires Hi∣storiques.
• Mufti, the High-priest of the Mahometan Religion, has a great Authority among the Mahometans.

• Mugnos (Giles) Antipope, named Clement VIII. was e∣steemed for his Learning and Vertue. After Benedict XIII's death, in 1424; he was elected Pope by two Cardinals in obe∣dience to Benedict, who charged them when he was a-dying, to proceed to a new Election; which they did also by the Sollici∣tation of Alphonsus, King of Arragon, Pope Martin the Vth's Enemy. Magnos made a Promotion of four Cardinals, that he might have a lawfull Consistory. But Alphonsus being reconci∣led with Martin Vth. in 1429. Mugnos abdicated willingly with great Solemnity; for he named first a fifth Cardinal, and in a numerous Assembly revoked all his Predecessors and his own Excommunications; declaring that for the Peace of the Church, he joyfully pa••ted with the Supreme Priesthood, and that the Throne being vacant, the Cardinals might freely and canonically proceed to a new Election. Then he descended from the Throne, and retired into a Room, where leaving his Pontifical Apparel, he returned into the Hall in Doctor's Ap∣parel; and as Martin Vth. had design'd to give him the Bishop∣rick of Majorca, he took place after the Cardinals, and desired them to chuse a good Pastor for the Church; and immediately they elected as by way of Inspiration Otho Colonna, naming him Martin Vth. who had already been elected in the Council of Constance. Thus ended the great Western Schism. Maimbourg. Hist. du grand Schism.
• Muis (Simon de) born at Orleans in France, a Royal Pro∣fessor in the Hebrew Tongue, composed many Learned Works, as a Literal Comment on the Psalms, &c. His Controversies with F Morin made a great Noise in the World, and he is said to att••ibute some Privileges to the Masorah which are not due to them. M. Simon.
• Mutsis, known by the Name of Aegidius Mucidus, Ab∣bot of St. Martin, at Tournay, composed divers Historical Works, as a Chronicle from CHRIST's Birth to the year 1348, &c. He died in 1353. Vossius de Hist. Lat. Valer. Andr. Bibl. B••lg.
• Muldaw, Molde, and Multaw, Lat. Mulda, a River of Bohemia in Germany, whose Head is towards the Limits of Bo∣hemia, and runs into the Elbe, above Prague; the Inhabitants call it Wltavae.
• * Mulgrave, an ancient Castle in the North-riding of York∣shire, near the Sea, and not far from Whitby, first built by Peter de Mauley in the time of Richard I. and continued in the Line of its Founder for seven Generations. Afterwards through o∣ther Families it came to the Sheffields; Edmund, Lord Sheffield of Bulterwick, Lord President of the North, being created Earl of Mulgrave by King Charles I. in 1625, who was great Grandson to Edmund Earl of Mulgrave.
• Mulhausen, an Imperial Town of Thuringia in Germany, near the River Unstrutt, seven German miles from Erford to the West, and four from Eysenach to the North. It's a fine City, under the Protection of the Elector of Saxony; being otherwise free and Imperial.
• Mulhausen, another Imperial Town of the higher Alsatia, in Germany, on the River Ill, once an imperial and free City; but in 1515 leagued with the Swiss, and united to Suntgow. It stands three Leagues from Ferrette to the North, and Basil to the South-west, but heretofore belonged to Alsatia.
• Mulki-kadin, a Favourite to the Sultaness, Mahomet IVth's Grandmother. She was a bold Young Woman, and governed the whole Empire in the beginning of that Prince's Reign, be∣cause she had the Sultaness's Love entirely. The Grand-Visier and other Officers could do nothing without her Consent, and the Closet-Council was held in t••••s Woman's private Apartment. But at last the Soldiers, weary of Female Administration, sent impudently to the Sultan, to desire him to come to the Kiosch, or Banqueting-house, where they demanded the Eunuchs heads that were Favourites, whom they strangled immediately, and next day they massacred Mulki and her Husband Schaban Kalfa. Ricaut of the Ottoman Empire.
• Muller, or Regiomontan, (John) a famous German Astro∣nomer. Cardinal Bessarion desired Purbach to abridge Ptolomy's Almagestum, but he dying, his Disciple Muller finished it happi∣ly. At Rome he found very material Errours in the Book trans∣lated into Latin by George of Trebizo••de, which was fatal to him. For Sixtus IVth. having made him Archbishop of Ratis∣bon, and desired him to come to Rome, to reform the Calendar, he was murthered there by George of Trebizonde's Sons in 1476, lest his great Learning should obscure their Father's reputation. Others say that he died of the Plague being forty years old. We have divers of his Works. Paul. Jov. in Elog. c. 144. Gas∣sendus in vita Regum, &c.
• Multan, a Town and Kingdom of the Indies in the Mogol's Dominions, on the Indus, below Attock, formerly more consi∣derable than it's now.
• Mulvia, a great River of Barbary in Africa, running from Mount Atlas into the Mediterranean. It divides the Kingdom of Fez from the Province of Tremesen in the Kingdom of Al∣gier.
• Mummius (Lucius) a Roman Consul, with Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, in 608 of Rome, subdued Achaia, took and burnt Corinth, from whence came the famous Metal called Corinthian. He was Censor afterwards, and died very poor. Strabo, lib. 8. Tit. Liv. l. 52. Pliny l. 37. c. 3.
• Mummol, a Patrician, reputed Earl of Auxerre, famous for his Victories, was General to Gontran, King of Orleans and Bur∣gundy, Son of Clotaire. He was killed in 585, in Comminges They say that his Wife was forced in the middle of Torments to declare that he had a considerable Treasure in Avignon. Greg. Turon. l. 5, 6, & 7. Aimoin. l. 3.
• Mummies of Egypt, are Dead Bodies embalmed and wrap∣ped in certain linen Cloths that prevent Corruption. They may be seen in Egypt, not far from Cairo, near the Village Sakara. The ground where they are found is like a vast Burying place, adorned in divers places with many Pyramids. There are un∣der the ground many vaulted rooms cut in Quarries of white Stones, with a hole to go down into them, like a Well. Those Wells are square, built with good Stones, and filled with Sand, to close the Grotto, which Sand is taken out when people will go in. Then by the help of a Rope under their Arms they are gently let down to the bottom, where the door is. The rooms built under ground are commonly square, and contain many by-places, where Mummies are found, some in stone Tombs, others in Chests or Coffins made of Sycamore with many Ornaments. The Dead Bodies are wrapped up with Fillets of Linen Cloth dipped in a Composition sit to preserve from Corruption; and those Fillets are so often wound about, that sometimes there are above a thousand Ells. The Fillet going in length from head to foot, is often adorned with many Hieroglyphicks painted in Gold, which shew the Quality and brave Actions of the deceased. Some Mummies also have a golden Leaf delicately set on the Face. Others have a kind of an Head-piece made of Cloth and prepared with Mortar, on which the Face of the person is represented in Gold. In un∣wrapping them small metal Idols are sometimes found wonder∣fully well wrought; and some have a little piece of Gold under their Tongue. Some Mummies are shut up in Chests made up of many Cloths pasted together, which are as strong as wooden ones, and never rot. The Balm that preserves those Bodies is black, hard and shining like Pitch, and smells plea∣santly. It is called Mummy, because composed of Amomum, Cinnamon, Myrrhe and Wax. The Dead Bodies were also powdered with Nitre or Sea-sand. The Amomum of the Anci∣ents is supposed to be the little Tree, the inner Bark whereof is called Cinnamon. They took the small Branches full of knots in the shape of Grape kernels, and a kind of sweet Gum that came out of its Root, to make that Composition with other Plants and aromatical Liquours, which keep Bodies from Corruption. From the word Amomum came Amomia, which we pronounce Mummy. Some derive it from the Persian word Mum signifying Wax, used chiefly by the Persians and Scythians to preserve Corpses. M. Thevenot. Voyage du Levant.
• Munasichites, a Sect of Mahometans following Pythagoras's Opinion, believe the Metempsychosis, or Transmigration of Souls from one Body into another. Munasachat in Arabick signifies Metempsychosis. They are also named Altenasochites, from Alte∣nasoch, that is, Metempsychosis. Ricaut of the Ottoman Empire.
• Muncer (Thomas) was called Luther's Vicar, because he taught the same Doctrine in Saxony. But afterwards he made himself Head of the Anabaptists and Enthusiasts in 1525, feign∣ing to have particular Revelations from God, and preached both against the Lutherans and Roman Catholicks. He joined with Ni∣cholas Stork and Pseiffer, and having drawn a prodigious number of Peasants to him, he boldly declared, That God could no lon∣ger bear the Sovereign's Tyranny and the Magistrate's Injustice, and had commanded him to destroy them, to put godly men in their Places. By such Doctrines they raised a considerable Army of wicked People, which caused great Disorders in Ger∣many; but they were all cut to pieces or made Prisoners. Muncer and Pseiffer were beheaded, the first being converted be∣fore he died; but the other unwilling to recant his Doctrine, died obstinate. Maimbourg, Hist. de Lutheranism.
• Munda, an ancient Town of Granada in Spain taken by Mariana, for Ronda la Veja is famous for Pompey's Son's defeat by Julius Caesar in 709 of Rome. Hirtius, Sueton. Dion. Plu∣tarch.
• Munick, or Munich, on the Iser, Lat. Monachum and Monachi∣um. The chief town of Bavaria in Germany, and the Residence of the Dukes, is counted one of the pleasantest and strongest of Germany. It was built in 962, and walled about by Duke Otho in 1156, or 57. The Prince's Court is extraordinary Polite, and the Palace one of the most stately of Germany for its divers A∣partments, precious Houshold-goods, Gardens, Pictures, Ri∣ches, the Duke's Closset full of Curiosities, the fine Library, &c. The Town is very fine, its Streets are broad and straight, with Houses almost of the same Architecture. The Suburb is on the other side of the fine Bridge. Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, took this Town in 1632, and admired the Palace built by the Elector Maximilian; where Marble is as common, as if the whole Count••y were a Marble Quar••y. Each Corner, Nich, Door and Chimny, has a Statue drawn half-way. The Hall of Anticks contains 354 such Statues of Jasper, Porphyry, Brass, and Marble of all Colours. In the first Gallery are an hundred Pictures of Illustrious Men, chiefly for Learning. The Cieling of the second Gallery represents the chief Towns of Bavaria; its Rivers and Castles, &c. One of Gustavus's Cap∣tains persuading him to destroy the Palace; he answered, That he should be sorry to rob the World of so fine a Thing. Clu∣veir. Deser. Germ. Bertius, l. 3. Germ. &c. 〈1+ pages missing〉〈1+ pages missing〉

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• Musorites, Jews who reverenc'd Rats and Mice, from Mus a Mouse, and Sorex a Rat. The Original of this Superstition is thus: The Philistines having taken the Ark of the Covenant a∣way, God sent a great number of Rats and Mice, that devour'd all they had, which forc'd them to return the Ark, that they might be deliver'd from that plague; but their Priests advis'd them first to put five Golden Mice into it, as an Offering to the God of Israel, that they might be rid of those Vermin.
• Mustapha, Solyman the Second, Emperour of the Turk's Eldest Son, the finest, stoutest, and most ingenious Prince, that had been seen for a long time in the Ottoman Family, was made Go∣vernour of several Provinces. But Roxelana, whom the Sultan married, contrary to the Custom establish'd since Bajazet the First, to secure the Crown to one of her own Sons, charged him with Rebellion against his Father, who caused him to be strang∣led immediately, without hearing his Defence. The People, de∣sirous to revenge his Death upon Roxelana, communicated the Design to Bajazet, one of Roxelana's younger Sons, who pretend∣ing to exclude his Brother Selym, and get the Crown, approved the thing, and elected one of his Slaves whose Stature and Face were very like Mustapha's. This supposed Prince departed in 1553, feigning to avoid his Father's anger, who would certain∣ly execute upon him, what he had done to a Slave, whom he took for his Son. His Officers told it as a great Secret, that he was the Emperor's Son; yet this Secret was quickly made a publick thing. Solyman sent Bassa Pertau against him, who brought him Prisoner to Constantinople, where he was forced upon a Rack to confess the Truth; and Roxelana obtained Baja∣zet's Pardon. De Rocoles des Imposteurs insignes.
• Mustapha, Emperor of the Turks, Mahomet IIId's Son, and Achmet's Brother, succeeded Achmet in 1617, whose Son Osman was but 12 years old. Mustapha was raised up to the Throne by the Janizaries, who turned him out of it two months after, because he displeased them. Osman his Nephew succeeded him, and he was shut up in a private Prison, out of which he was drawn by the Janizaries, and was again put upon the Throne in 1622. The next day after he put Osman to death. But his Conduct displeasing again, he was confined sixteen months af∣ter to perpetual Imprisonment, and Amurath, Osman's brother, succeeded him. There are particular Relations of all those Re∣volutions.
• Musulmen, that is, True-believers, a Name given by Maho∣met to all those that embraced his Religion.
• Musurus (Mark) born in Candia, a Learned Archbishop of Ragusa, in the XVIth. Century. Being Professor at Padua, he had so many Auditors, that they were forced to inlarge the publick School. He was promis'd a Cardinal's-cap the next Promotion; but being disappointed, he complained of it as an Affront to all the Graecians, and died soon after. De Varillas, A∣necdotes de Florence.
• Mutafaracas, in Turky, are Officers who constantly follow the Grand-Signior, chiefly when he goes from Village to Vil∣lage. They are Spahi's of a higher Rank than the rest, who re∣ceive a greater Reward when they go out of the Seraglio. Mu∣tafaraca signifies eminent Spahi, from farak, to distinguish. When the Grand-Visier goes to the Divan, he is also followed by many Mutafaraca's. Ricaut of the Ottoman Empire.
• Mutian, or Conradus Mutianus Rufus, Prebendary at Gotha in Germany, a famous Lawyer, esteemed by the Learned of his time, neglected Preferments, and ingraved these words on his door, Beata Tranquillitas. He died in 1526.
• Mutian (Hierom) a famous Italian Painter, who sollowed Titian's way, and made a great number of Pictures at Rome. Gregory XIIIth. imployed him to draw the first Hermit, S. Paul and St. Anthony, which are to be seen in St. Peter's Church. He finished also the Designs of the Basso Relievo's of Trajan's Co∣lumn begun by Julio Romanus; and by his means we have the Stamps explained by Ciaconius. He died in 1590. Gregory XIII. founded St. Luke's Academy at Rome for his sake, by a Brief confirmed by Sixtus V. Mutian left two Houses to the said Academy, and his whole Estate also, in case his Heirs should have no Issue, to keep poor young Painters that would come to Rome to learn that Art.
• Mutimus, The God of Silence, from the Latin mutire, to mutter. The Ancients believed that this false Divinity did help one to keep his thoughts conceal'd. Turneb. l. 17.
• C. Mutius, named Cordus, and afterwards Scaevola. Porsenna, King of Tuscany, besieging Rome in 247 of Rome, to restore Tar∣quin; and Mutius resolving to dispatch him, killed his Secreta∣ry in his stead. And being brought before Porsenna, who was offering a Sacrifice; he told him boldly, that three hundred young Men like him were bound by Oath to murther him. But since my hand, added he, has miss'd thee, it must be pu∣nished for it. Then putting his Right-hand on the burning Coals, he let it burn with such a constancy that the Beholders were all amazed. Porsenna charmed with his Vertue sent him safe to Rome, where they gave him the Name of Scaevola, or Left-handed, which remained to his Family. Florus, Tit. Liv. lib. 2. Mart. l. 1. ep. 30. Dion. Halicarn.
• Q. Mutius Scaevola, a famous Lawyer, and Roman Consul, who governed Asia with so much Prudence and Justice, that he was commonly proposed as an Example to the Governours sent thither. He composed many Works, and had the Name of a perfect Orator. Cicero calls him the most Eloquent of all the Lawyers, and the best Lawyer of all the Orators. He was mur∣thered in 672 of Rome, during Marius and Sylla's Wars, being accused by his Assassin of too much Honesty. Cicero ad Attic. Solin. c. 29. &c.
• Mutius, or Mucians, Lat. Gens Mucia, a very illustrious Family at Rome, has produced many Magistrates, as Q. Mutius Scaevola, Consul in 580; P. Mutius Scaevola, also Consul in 579, Father to P. Mutius Scaevola, Consul in 621; Q. M. Scaevola, cal∣led The Augur, Consul in 637. Tit. Liv. Pliny l. 2.
• Mutunus, or Mutinus, a base Divinity of the Romans, like the Graecians Priapus. New married Women worshipped Mu∣tunus's Statue, before which shamefull Ceremonies were per∣formed. The ancient Fathers have often charged the Pagans with them. S. Austin. de Civ. Dei, lib. 4. c. 9. Lactant.