Chapter Monçada to Monmouth of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Monkbarns (Laird of), Mr. Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary.—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary (time, George III.).

Monker and Nakir [Na-keer], the two examiners of the dead, who put questions to departed spirits respecting their belief in God and Mahomet; and award their state in after-life according to their answers.—Al Korân.

“Do you not see those spectres that are stirring the burning coals? Are they Monkir and Nakir come to throw us into them?”—Beckford: Vathek (1786).

Monmouth, the surname of Henry V. of England, who was born in that town (1388, 1413–1422).

Mon-mouth is the mouth of the Monnow.

Monmouth (The duke of), commander-in-chief of the royal army.—Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality (time, Charles II.).

The duke of Monmouth was nicknamed “The Little Duke,” because he was diminutive in size. Having no name of his own, he took that of his wife, “Scott,” countess of Buccleuch. Pepys says, “It is reported that the King will be tempted to set the crown on the Little Duke” (Diary, seventeenth century).