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 though eighty-seven years of age, he was one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, which appointment, however, he resigned shortly before his death in the following year (1690).

The Reports of Cases in the time of Edward II., contained in the first volume of the Year Books are usually known as Maynard's Reports, because they were compiled, according to the title, "Solonq; les ancient Manuscripts ore rermanent en les Maines de Sir Jehan' Maynard Chevaler, etc." Several of Maynard's Speeches are printed in Rushworth's Collections, Cobbett's Parliamentary History and State Trials, and Somers' Tracts, and a large number of his MSS. are preserved in Lincoln's Inn Library.

Son of Thomas Meade of Elmdon. There is no record of his admission, but he was Reader at the Inn in 1562, and again in 1567. In the latter of these years he became Serjeant, and was advanced to a seat in the Court of Common Pleas 30 Nov. 1577. He died May, 1585.

Admitted 24 April, 1847.

Eldest son of John Merrifield of the Middle Temple (and Tavistock, Devonshire). He was called to the Bar 31 Jan. 1851, but gave all his attention to mathematical studies, and in 185S published a paper on The Geometry of the Elliptic Equation. In 1863 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1878 President of the London Mathematical Society. From 1867 to 1873 he was Principal of the Royal School of Naval Architecture at South Kensington, and he sat on various Royal Commissions where high technical knowledge was required. He died at Hove 1 Jan. 1884. He left works entitled Memoirs on Pure Mathematics (1861); A Collection of Models of Ruled Surfaces (1872); and Technical Arithmetic (1872); but his contributions to scientific periodicals are too numerous to detail.

Admitted 5 November, 1506.

Second son of Walter Mervin of Fonthill, Wilts. He was elected Reader at the Inn in 1523, and again in 1530, and became Serjeant-at-Law in 1531, and King's Serjeant in 1539. The following year he was raised to a Judgeship of the King's Bench, which position he retained through the reigns of Edward VI. and Queen Mary. He was one of the commissioners appointed for the trial of Sir Andrew Dudley and others for high treason 18 Aug. 1553, and he is frequently mentioned in the criminal proceedings of the time. He died probably before the end of Queen Mary's reign.

MERYON, VISCOUNT. See FITZWILLIAM, THOMAS.

Admitted 17 November, 1827.

Third son of Edward Michell of Gillingham, co. Dorset. He was educated at Bruton Grammar School and at Oxford, where he graduated in 1824, obtaining a First-Class in litteras humaniores. He then became very successful