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 pointed him gentleman of the privy chamber (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1659–62). On 8 April 1661 he was elected M.P. for Boroughbridge, which he represented until his death. In 1663 he was nominated a commissioner to put in execution the laws against regrators, forestallers, and engrossers of corn, and sellers of live fat cattle contrary to the act, and was empowered to receive all forfeitures incurred for five years to come (ib. 1663–4, pp. 372, 642). He was captain in the horse regiment commanded by Charles, lord Gerard of Brandon (ib. 1665–6, p. 577), and in the same year was reconstituted a commissioner for licensing and regulating hackney coaches (ib. 1666–7, p. 358). Mauleverer was buried in Westminster Abbey on 25 July 1675. By his marriage, on 10 July 1642, to Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Clerke, knt., of Pleshey, Essex, he had issue.

His eldest son, (1643?–1687), born about 1643, represented Boroughbridge in parliament from 14 March 1678–9 until his death. In 1678 he was second to Sir Henry Goodricke in a duel, and ran his adversary through the body; and in 1685 he had a command of a troop in Monmouth's rebellion. Reresby says he was hated as a reputed papist (Memoirs, ed., pp. 152, 292). He sold his estate of Armley Hall, Yorkshire, to the widow of Sir William Ingleby of Ripley in the same county. He was buried on 13 Aug. 1687 in Westminster Abbey. With his wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Miles Stapilton of Myton, Yorkshire, he lived very unhappily, and after his death she married her cousin, John Hopton of Ingerskill there, and died without issue on 31 Jan. 1704 (Yorkshire Archæolog. and Topogr. Journal, v. 456).

There was also (d. 1650), eldest son of John Mauleverer of Lettwell, Yorkshire, by Margaret, daughter of John Lewis of Marr, in that county (ib. xi. 86, 457; cf. also Administration Act Book, P. C. C. 1651, f. 29). He was among the first of the Yorkshire gentry to declare for the parliament, became a colonel in the army, and after the disgrace of Sir John Hotham and his son was made governor of Hull. There is a curious letter from Ferdinando, lord Fairfax, to him, dated 13 June 1646, thanking him for not allowing Mrs. Hotham, who had made certain inconvenient demands for the restitution of property which Fairfax desired to keep, to search Sir John Hotham's house at Hull (Hist. MSS. Comm. 9th Rep. p. 438). In May 1650 he was appointed colonel of one of the five regiments of foot for the war in Scotland (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1650, pp. 95, 141), but he died from fatigue at Edinburgh in December following. Cromwell wrote to Speaker Lenthall, asking parliament to make adequate provision for Mauleverer's ‘sad widow (Dorcas) and seven small children’ (Letters and Speeches, ed., 1882, v. 242–3). After receiving a report from the committee of the army, the house ordered Mauleverer's debts to be paid, and voted 100l. for his widow's immediate relief, and on 20 July 1652 passed a resolution for settling lands in Scotland of 400l. a year on her, her children, and their heirs (Commons' Journals, vi. 575–6, vii. 155–6).

The Colonel James Mauleverer alluded to in Rushworth's ‘Historical Collections’ (pt. ii. vol. i. p. 216) was apparently a brother of the above Colonel John Mauleverer, and, like him, was a staunch parliamentarian. On 11 March 1642–3 he was commissioned by the Earl of Essex to raise a troop of horse in Yorkshire, an order renewed by parliament on 10 May (Lords' Journals, vi. 40). He may have been the ‘Col. Mauleverer’ who was killed at the first siege of Pontefract Castle on 1 March 1645; another Colonel Maleverer, however, was present with his regiment of foot at the third siege of Pontefract in 1649 (Surtees Soc. Miscellanies, App. pp. 15, 100, 101, 110). 

MAULEY, PETER (d. 1241), favourite of King John, was a Poitevin noble, who left his inheritance to his brother Aymer, and entered the service of King John. According to the account preserved in Hemingburgh (i. 232), he was employed by John to murder Arthur of Brittany, but no contemporary writer mentions him by name in this connection. He received a grant of land in December 1202 (, Rot. Normanniæ, p. 66), and is mentioned in the king's service in 1205 (Rot. Lit. Pat. 25 b), and his name is of frequent occurrence in the Close and Patent Rolls during the remainder of John's reign. Hemingburgh states that he was rewarded for his share in Arthur's murder with the hand of Isabel, heiress of the barony of Mulgres, and daughter of Robert de Turnham. Turnham's lands were granted to Mauley on 25 April 1214 (ib. p. 113). Matthew Paris mentions him as one of John's evil counsellors in 1211 (ii. 533). In 1214 he served with John in Poitou (Rot. Lit. Pat. p. 112), and in the following year was entrusted with the charge of Corfe Castle (ib. p. 128), where he had custody of much