queen of England, eldest daughter of James II. by his first wife, was born at St James's in 1662. She was bred up a Protestant, and married to William Henry of Nassau, then prince of Orange, afterwards king of England, in the 16th year of her age. She stayed in Holland with her husband till February 12, 1689, when she came over, and was solemnly proclaimed queen of England, &c. She was an equal sharer with her husband in all the rights belonging to the crown; but the administration and execution thereof were lodged solely in the king. She was a princess endowed with the highest perfections both of body and mind: the loved history, as being proper to give her useful instructions; and was also a good judge as well as a lover of poetry. She studied more than could be imagined, and would have read more than she did, if the frequent returns of ill humours in her eyes had not forced her to spare them. She gave her minutes of leisure to architecture and gardening; and since it employed many hands, she said, she hoped it would be forgiven her. She was the most gracious of sovereigns to her subjects, and the most obliging of wives to her husband, as well as the most excellent of mistresses to her servants: she ordered good books to be laid in the places of attendance, that persons might not be idle while they were in their turns of service. She was exceedingly zealous for a reformation of manners; charitable in the highest degree, without the least ostentation. This excellent queen died on the 28th of December 1695, at Kensington, of the smallpox, in the 33d year of her age. In her arts lost a protector, the unfortunate a mother, and the world a pattern of every virtue. As to her person she was tall, of a majestic graceful mien, her countenance serene, her complexion ruddy, and her features beautiful.

MARY Magdalen's Day, a festival of the Romish church, observed on the 22d of July.

MARY-Gerane's-House, a name given to Dunmorehead, in the parish of Dunqueen, county of Kerry, and province

(b) This article stands in need of an apology; but whether for its length or its shortness, our readers may perhaps differ in opinion. If it be considered as a piece of common biography, and compared with the limits which we have prescribed to our other articles of the same kind, it has swelled to an extent beyond all proportion. But as a piece of common biography it ought not to be considered: it is intimately connected with the history of Scotland at a very interesting period; and it has been justly observed, by one of the ablest writers of the age, that "the fact under dispute in the life of Mary, is a fundamental and essential one; and that, according to the opinion which the historian adopts with regard to it, he must vary and displace the whole of his subsequent narration." Viewed in this light, our abstract of the evidence which has been urged on both sides of this controversy will by many be deemed too short. To such as wish for complete satisfaction, we can only recommend the unbiased study of the writings of Buchanan, Lesly bishop of Rois, Goodall, Robertson, Hume, Tytler, Sir David Dalrymple, Stuart, Whitaker, and Laing. province of Munster, in Ireland. It is the most western point of all Europe, and called by the Irish Ty Vorney Geerone. It is a point as much celebrated by them as John-of-Groat's house by the Scots, which is the utmost extremity of North Britain.