In a similar manner, lustrum is used by the writers of the middle age: John Bromton says of Henry II-" Ac cum xxv annis pene regnavit, sex lustra data sunt ei, ad mundanam gloriam, ad conversionis tolleranciam, ad devotionis experienciam, septimum vero lustrum tanquam reprobo et ingrato inflictum est ad vindictam” (Chron., col. 1045) Thomas Otterbourne quotes a prophecy respecting the pestilence in 1349 (1348): "De hac pestilentia quidam sic metrice vaticinavit :— Mors faciet girum per terras undique dirum, Lustri continet namque sex literas, quarum medietas, scil. I u s, significant numerum, ex quibus consurgit numerus 56 ad quem annum, a primo introitu in Angliam, pestilentia durabit" (Chron., t. I, p. 133). LVI would contain equally one half of Lustri, and express the number 56 more clearly-unless he mean the long s, like the j reversed thus, f. In this plague, 50,000 died in London alone; and in Germany, 90,000 people were cut off. Lux.-Light, for Dies: "XII Feb. mensis luce.”—Gassar. apud Mencken., Script., t. I, p. 1596. LWKE.-St. Luke the Evangelist, Oct. 18: Wretyn in hast at Heylysden, the Tuesday next aftyr seynt Lwke.”—Paston Letters (1464), v. IV, p. 200. Lyde,-In Robert of Brunne, is the same as Lud and Lude. Lyftyng vpp the Cross.-The Exaltation.-Lansd. MS., 392, fo. 84. LYON the yonge Pope.-June 28, in MS. Catal. of Saints, temp. Hen. VI. See LEOUN. Lytha Monath (Æftera).-V. 428. The month after Lytha Month, July (see Litha Monath). Bede gives it the same name, and consequently the same explanation, as Lida. The name in the kalendar (p. 428) is supplied from the Menol. Sax., which, after explaining the origin of the Latin name Julius, under Se æfteɲa Lýða, proceeds thus-þone monaþ pe nemnað on ure zeþeode se æfrera liða. þonne re monað býþ geendod þe pe nemnab re æfteɲa lipa. þonne býþ re niht ehra týda lang. & se dæz rÿxtene týda-[This month we name in our language the after-litha. When the month is ended which we call the after-litha, then is the night eight hours long and the day sixteen hours.] The origin of the term is found in Lida and Litha. MACARIUS.-Dec. 27. Macaire, a martyr under Decius, 251 (Petr. de Natal., l. I. c. 47). See MACHARIUS. Machabæi.-Aug. 1: V. 429; T. 442. The festival of the martyrdom of the seven Machabees and their mother is found in the very ancient kal. of Carthage: "Kal. Augusti Passio Sanctorum Machabæorum” (Mabill, Analecta, p. 167); and that of Arras, 826: "Passio sanctorum Machabæorum septem cum matre sua." MACHABEI.-Aug. 1: G. 411; E. 456. Petr. de Natal. (l. VII, c. 4) also spells the name without the diphthong. MACHARIUS, with EMERENTIANA.-Jan. 23: V. 422. The Macharius the abbot, at Jan. 15 in this kalendar, is an interpolation. He was an Egyptian abbot.-Petr. de Natal., l. II. MACHARIUS.-Apr. 8: G. 403. There were also-1, of Alexandria, abbot, 394, Jan. 2; 2, bp., 5th cent., May 1; 3, archbp., 1012, April 10. MACHLON, Confessor.-Nov, 15: V. 432, an interpolation. T. 445. He was also called Macutus, Machutus, Maclou, Macluvius, and Malo: a bishop, A. D. 565-Brit. Sancta, p. ii, p. 276. MACHUTUS, MACLOU, MACLUVIUS.-See MACHLON, which probably ought to be Machlou. MACTAIL.-June 11: G. 407. Madius. The month of May: "Infra Kalendas Madii"-Letter of Charles, king of Sicilly, an. 1288 (Rymer, t. I, p. 681): "Dat. in Terrer id' Madii A. D. 1289"-Letter of Alfonso of Arragon (Ibid., p. ii, p. 709). “Candelæ de Madio Mense," says Du Cange, are enumerated among the church offerings, in a charter of an. 1030." MAELRUEN.-July 7: G. 409. Magdalen (the); La Magdelaine.-July 22, the festival of the Magdalen, in a writ of military summons by Philip le Bel, in 1302, which Du Cange has published: "Soient à quinzaine de la Magdelaine prochaine venant à Ar-, rez."-Gloss., voc. Summonitio, t. VI, col. 811. Magna Dominica.-The Great Sunday, i. e. Easter Day.-Filesac. de Quadrages., c. 16. Magna Precaria.—A great day's work, performed in lieu of other rent, and the general name of a great or general reaping day. "In 21 Ric. II, the lord of the manor of Harrow on the Hill had a custom, that by summons of his bailiffs upon a general reaping day, then called Magna Precaria, the tenants should do a certain number of days' work for him, every tenant that had a chimney being obliged to send a man (Phil. Purvey, p. 145).”—Jacob. Magnificet.-A name of Midlent Thursday, taken from the first word of the collect. Magnum Paschatis Dominicum.-The Great Sunday of Easter.-Filesac. de Quadrages., c. 16. Magnus Dies.-The Great Day, or Easter Day, in the Capitularies of Charlemagne: Qui pœnitentiam publice agunt, debent esse unum annum in cilicio inter audientes, vel usque ad magnum diem."-Capit. Carol., l. V, c. 71. MAGNUS.-Feb. 4: G. 399. A martyr in Antioch.-Petr. de Natal., l III, c. 83. MAGNUS.-Aug. 19: G. 412; V. 429; T. 442; E. 456. Thomas Wilkes uses this martyr's day in his date of the coronation of Edw. II, in 1284: " Dominica quæ anno contigit XIV kal. Septembris in illo festo sancti Magni martyris" (Chron. in Gale's Scriptores, t. II, p. 101). He suffered with his companions in Cappadocia, under Aurelian.-Petr. de Natal., 1. VII, c. 76. Mahut.-An unexplained Fr. name of St. Bartholomew's Day, Aug. 24. Maias. May G. 405. In gen. plu., Maiarum: Malade (le) de trente et huit Ans.-Friday of the first ember week in France. MAMERCUS, MAMERTUS.-May 11: G. 405. Mamertus, archbp. of Vienne, and author of the Minor Litanies or Rogation Days, died in 477 (Petr. de Natal., l. IV, c. 152; Hospin., de Fest. fo. 85). He is as often called Mamercus: Mense Maio, die Sancti Mamerci Episcopi.”—Chron. de Mailros, p. 186. 66 MAMMA. Of this saint Hospinian says, that he was first mentioned by Gregory the Great, in Homil. 35. Perhaps it is Mammas, a shepherd and martyr, Aug. 17. Mandati Dies.-The day of the commandment, or Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday; so called, from the old ceremony of washing the feet of the poor people in the Coena Domini (which see), when the whole choir chaunted the words of Christ: "Mandatum novum do vobis"-A new commandment I give unto you (see Maundy Thursday, & vol. I, p. 183-4). In the Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, at Rouen, a MS. of the 10th century, cap. 29, is "Benedictio ad Mandatum ipso die" (Archæol., v. XXIV, p. 119). "Hic Wlnothus ut in Eleemosynaria commorarentur, et mandatum more facerent quotidiano regulariter ordinavit."-Matt. Par. in Vitis, p. 24. Mandatum Pauperum.-The Commandment of the Poor; Saturday before Palm Sunday. In some monasteries, it was customary to wash the feet of as many poor people as there were monks in the convent, on Holy Thursday and Saturday before Palm Sunday. The latter received this name to distinguish it from the former, which was Mandati Dies, or the day of the commandment itself. See Vol. I, p. 184. Manday Thursday,-Gloss. in Matt. Par., v. Cœna Domini, p. 185. See Maundy Thursday. MARCE & MARCELLIAN.-June 18 (see MARCUS & MARCELLIANUS). " In the xv kalende of Juyl in the vigille of Marce & Marcellian.”—Rotul. Parliamenti (1 Edw. VI, r. 8), t. V, p. 463. Marcell Day.-Day of Marcellinus.-Ibid. MARCELLINUS.-Aug. 9: G. 411. Marcellianus (in Petr. de Natal.), a martyr with Secundianus and Verianus at Rome, under Dccius.-Cat. Sanct., 7. VII, c. 41. MARCELLIN & PETRE; MARCELLINUS & PETER.-June 2: L. 466; G. 407; V. 427; T. 440; E. 454. First mentioned by Gregory the Great, in the 7th cent. (Homil. 6.) Marcellinus a priest, and Peter the exorcist, suffered at Rome in 304 (Petr. de Natal., l. V, c. 74). In G. 418, Nov. 27, the same names recur. There is a Peter of Alexandria, Nov. 26. Another Marcellinus, G. 414, Sept. 19. Marcellinus, pope, died 304, Oct. 24—in some martyrologies, wrongly, April 20. MARCELLUS & APULEIUS.-Oct. 7: V. 431. Martyrs at Rome under Nero. -Petr. de Natal., l. IX, c. 30. MARCELLUS. Pope.-Jan. 16: E. 449.-Petr. de Natal., l. II, c. 83. MARCELLUS,-With Demetrius-April 16: G. 403. Instituted in the 11th cent.-Hospin. de Fest., fo. 16 b. MARCELLUS,-With Marcus, Oct. 4: G. 415. Another, Oct. 6. MARCIAL, Abbot & Conf.-June 30: V. 427 interpolated; G. 408. He was a bishop of Limoges in the third century (Verif. des Dates; Catal. des Saints). See MARTIAL. MARCIAL.-Sept. 28: G. 414. MARCIANUS & PROCESSUS.-July 2: G. 409. See PROCESSUS & MAR TINIANUS. MARC lewangelist.-Marc l'Evangelist; date of Stat. 28 Edw. III. Ewangelles, the Gospels. MARCUS Evangelista.-See MARK the Evangelist. MARCUS & MARCELLINUS.-June 18: G. 407; V. 427; T, 440; E. 454. Brothers martyred at Rome, under Dioclesian, for refusing to sacrifice to idols (Petr. de Natal., 1. V, c. 124; Hospin. de Fest., fo. 113); a. D. 286. MARCUS & MARCELLUS.-Oct. 4: G. 415. MARCUS.-June 8: G. 407. MARCUS, Pope.-Oct. 7: V. 431; E. & D. 458. Died 336. Marcz.-March, in our Fr. records; thus, in a diploma temp. Edw. III, in Mardi.-Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday-mod. Fr. Maredy-Tuesday, in our Fr. records, as in the articles of peace between Edward III and the Earl of March, in which the king grants him "soeffrance de guerre par terre et par mier jusques au Maredy, le jour seinte Mergeret la virge prochein avenir, lan de Grace mille ccc trentisme tierze" (Rymer, Fader., t. III, p. 864). In this year, 1333, St. Margaret's Day fell on a Tuesday. Margaret Euen.-July 19: "Writen at London on Seynt Margaret euen" (Paston Lett., v. I, p. 112). Sir John Fenn mistakes the date of this letter for "Sunday, 20 July, 1455." MARGARET, MARGARETA, MARGARETE-(the 1st is Engl., the 2nd Lat., and the last Engl. & Fr).-July 20: E. 455. A virgin of Antioch, dau of Edesius a priest; her beauty attracted Olibrius, the governor of the city, whom she refused, and by whose orders she was beheaded. Her Acts, as related in the Saxon Passio S. Margareta (Cott. MS., Tib., A. III), which appears to be the translation of some Latin legend, contain the most improbable absurdities that ever entered the brain of a fanatical or knavish priest of any known church. Some say she was beheaded July 20— others July 13, which Dresser has adopted, notwithstanding his usual accuracy in these matters (De Festib. Dieb., sub die); in some kalendars it is July 15. The Acts referred to fix the circumstance to July 23: Seo halza margareta gefylde hire propunge on iulius monþe. on þone þreo & rpentezþan dæge-The holy Margaret accomplished her passion in the month of July, on the three and twentieth day (fo. 75b). As the lady never had a head to be cut off, we may easily account for these discrepancies. Ralph of Tongerest says that he saw in the Lateran at Rome the Acts of St. Margaret, classed among the apocryphal in the canon of Gelasius (Rad. Tungrens., de Observ. Can., cap. II, apud Hospin. fo. 118 b.) Baronius, in his Notes on the Martyrology, does not deny that there are some things in her Acts, by Metaphrastes, which require no little correction. By women in labour she is invoked as another Lucina, because in her martyrdom she prayed for lying-in-women-that if in their pains they were to call upon her name, they might be immediately delivered from the perils of child-birth (Hospin. de Fest., fo. 118 b.) This prayer is not in the Saxon Acts. Her feast is employed as a date, in the Stat. 51 Hen. III, De Distinct. Scaccar.: "Entour la feste de Seint Margarete." MARGERETE.-July 20: L. 467. MARGRETE.-July 20, "Suche a day ze schul haue þe fest of seynt Margrete & þough it be a lyght halyday saue þat þe schyrch is edyfyed in hur name, gitte I warne gou for as I suppose per ben some þat han suche loue to hure pt he wyl faston hur evon."-Cott. MS., Claud., A. II, fo. 88 b. MARGRETYS Messe.-St. Margaret's Feast, July 20 (Paston Letters, v. IV, p. 14). See Mass; Missa. MARIA ad Nives.-See MARY ad Nives. MARIA Candelaia.-An Italian name of Candlemas. MARIA Candelaria.-Candlemas. MARIA del Buon Consiglio.—April 25. This is the miraculous translation of the sacred image of our Lady of Good Counsel, from Albania to Rome. MARIA.-March 28: G. 402. Petr. de Natalibus has two of this name, whose days in March are not named.-7. IIII, c. 4 & 5. MARIA.-May 13: G. 405. MARIA. July 22: G. 410. This is MARY ad Natales. This is MARY MAGDALEN. MARIA. For the Virgin's festivals, see MARY. MARI Day in Heruest.-The Nativity, Sept. 8 (see Harvest Month): "And Sir Faukes broper, Sir William of Breute, On gibet hii were an honge as be more vilte A seinte Mari day in heruest, þat reube it was to se." MARI Day in Lente.-The Annunciation, March 25. "Seinte Mari day in Lente among op" dawes gode Cott. MS., Jul., D. IX, fo. 30 b. MARIA Conceptio.-May 2: G. 405. See Marymas. MARIE Egipciake.-St. Mary the Egyptian, Apr. 2. This saint is described in Popish legends as having been a very libidinous woman. The following extract is from the ancient manuscript of church festivals, in the rude verse of the 13th century "Seint Marie Egipciake in egipt was ibore. Al hire gong lif heo ladde in sinne in hore. VOL. II. L L |