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Rh charged in 1550 with ‘overstepping the allowed limit’ by saying mass to the princess's household when she was not present in person, and on 20 April 1551 was committed to the Tower (ib. p. 447;, Hist. of the Church of England, iii. 241, 299, 305–7). It being found impossible to overcome Mary's firmness, and the emperor having made the continuance of her mass a question of peace and war, Mallett and the other prisoners were eventually released and allowed to return to their mistress. According to Le Neve he was appointed to the seventh stall in Westminster Abbey on 31 March 1553, and transferred to the sixth stall 7 April 1554. It is, however, most unlikely that so determined an adherent of the old catholic faith should have received such preferment from the young king and his councillors, and it is more probable that the record of the earlier appointment is erroneous, and that the later, which is stated in Rymer to have been made by the queen herself—Edward VI having died on 6 July 1553—was his first and only nomination to a stall in the abbey (, Fœdera, xv. 382). Other rewards speedily followed. On the deprivation of Matthew Parker on account of his being a married man, the deanery of Lincoln was conferred by Mary on her faithful chaplain on 29 May 1554, and he held it till his death (, Parker, i. 65; Annals, iv. 613). He was also collated to the prebendal stall of St. Martin's in Lincoln Cathedral on 18 Dec. 1556, and to that of Corringham on 28 Jan. 1556–7, the latter by mandate from Cardinal Pole. On 2 March 1554–5 he received from the queen the mastership of the Hospital of St. Katherine by the Tower, and he was her almoner on, if not before, 3 Sept. 1556. On the death of Salcot (otherwise Capon) he was nominated by Mary on 14 Oct. 1558 to the bishopric of Salisbury, and as bishop-designate had the custody of the temporalities of the see granted him (, Fœdera, xv. 488). The death of Mary, who bequeathed him 200l. for masses for her soul, within a month of his nomination, 17 Nov. 1558, prevented the fulfilment of her purpose, which was quietly set aside by her successor, who appointed Jewel to the vacant see. Mallett, however, conformed to the changed order of things and retained his deanery, though he resigned the mastership of St. Katherine's. He also held the benefices of Ashbourne and Wirksworth in Derbyshire, which were in his gift as dean, and in 1560 leased the rectories of these churches to Sir Thomas Cokayne for eighty years, with power of renewal to his descendants. He was also rector of South Leverton, Nottinghamshire. In 1562 he signed the articles of the church by proxy (, Annals, i. 490), and in a letter of uncertain date to Archbishop Parker defended himself from the charge of preaching unsound doctrine with regard to the number of the sacraments. He died at Normanton on 16 Dec. 1570.  MALLOCH, DAVID (1705?–1765), poet and miscellaneous writer. [See .]

MALLORY or MALLORIE, THOMAS (1605?–1666?), divine, was the fourth son of Thomas Mallory, dean of Chester, rector of Mobberly and Davenham, Cheshire, and was baptised at Davenham 29 Aug. 1605. He matriculated at New College, Oxford, on 15 Oct. 1624, and proceeded B.A. on 7 May 1628, M.A. on 17 Jan. 1631–2 (, Alumni, iii. 963). Appointed rector of Easington, Oxfordshire, in 1632, he was, on 14 May 1634, presented by Richard Mallory and William Forster, D.D., bishop of Sodor and Man, to the family living of Northenden, Cheshire. Although he took possession on 28 Feb. 1635, there seems to have been a dispute about the validity of his title, and on 6 Aug. 1635 he was again presented by the king (, Cheshire, i. 295). On the outbreak of the civil war, he was ejected from his living as a loyalist, and forced to escape from his rectory, which was sequestrated with his other estates (Harl. MS. 2130, ff. 134, 209, &c.;, i. 24, 27). His wife and six young children seem to have remained in his rectory, and to have had sums of money granted them in his absence (Church Accounts in, i. 295; also Harl. MS. 2130, f. 47). He himself was one of the small band of royalists garrisoned in Robert Tatton's mansion of Wythenshaw, near Northenden (, i. 315). After more than a year's siege, Tatton surrendered to Colonel Duckenfield, assisted by some of Fairfax's men, on 25 Feb. 1643 (see Providence Improved, or Burghall's Journal of the Civil War in Cheshire, Addit. MS. 5851, f. 126). Mallory was probably imprisoned. On 22 and 23 June 1660 he petitioned parliament to secure the tithes and other profits of his sequestrated living until the title should be determined (Hist. MSS. Comm. 7th Rep. pt. i. p. 107).

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