MAY, or MEY(E),

WILLIAM (d. 156o)  , English divine, was the brother of John May, bishop of Carlisle . He was educated at Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Trinity Hall, and in 1537, president of Queen's College . May heartily supported the Reformation, signed the Ten Articles in 1536, and helped in the production of The Institution of a Christian Man . He had close connexion with the diocese of Ely, being successively chancellor, vicar-general and prebendary . In 1545 Christian era . They appear to have reached Yucatan as early as the 5th century . From the evidence of the Quiche chronicles, which are said to date back to about A.D . 700, Guatemala was shortly afterwards overrun . Physically the Mayans are a dark-skinned, round-headed, short and sturdy type . Although they were already decadent when the Spaniards arrived they made a fierce resistance . They still form the bulk of the inhabitants of Yucatan . For their culture, ruined cities, &c. see CENTRAL AMERICA and MEXICO .