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 :: London, 1813; 2nd ed. 1823. He edited the 2nd edit, of ‘Wodarch's Introduction to … Conchology,’ 8vo, London, 1822, and wrote a paper on ‘The Occurrence of Diamonds, &c., in Brazil' for Gilbert's ‘Annalen’ lix. (1818), besides one ‘On the Tourmaline and Apatite of Devonshire’ for the ‘Quart. Journ. of Science,’ iv. (1818). He appears also to have issued at some time ‘Directions to Captains of Ships, Officers, and Travellers; particularly to those engaged in the South Sea Fishery’ (for collecting shells). A manuscript paper ‘On a Gold Mine in South America’ is preserved in the library of the Geological Society.
 * 1) ‘A Catalogue of Minerals,’ 12mo, London, 1815.
 * 2) ‘A Descriptive Catalogue of Minerals,’ &c., 8vo, London, 1816; 4th edit. 12mo, London, 1821; reissued in 1823.
 * 3) ‘Familiar Lessons on Mineralogy and Geology,’ 12mo, London, 1819; 10th edit. 12mo, 1828.
 * 4) ‘Amateur Lapidary's Guide,’ 3rd edit. 8vo, London, 1823; 12mo, London, 1827.
 * 5) ‘Instructions for the use of the Blow-pipe and Chemical Tests,’ 4th edit. 12mo, London, 1825.
 * 6) ‘The Voyager's Companion or Shell-Collector's Pilot,’ 16mo, London, 1821; 4th edit. 1825.
 * 7) ‘The Linnæan System of Conchology,’ 8vo, London, 1823.

[Appleton's Cyclop, of American Biog.; Mawe's Works, Nos. 1, 8, and Travels in Brazil. Rose and others wrongly give his Christian name as Joseph.] 

MAWE or MAW, LEONARD (d. 1629), bishop of Bath and Wells, son of Simon Mawe, gentleman, of Rendlesham, Suffolk, by his wife Margery, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Wyld of Yorkshire, by his wife Alice, daughter and heiress of John Jago of Suffolk, was born at Rendlesham, and educated at Cambridge, where he was admitted fellow of Peterhouse in 1595, and having proceeded M.A. was incorporated at Oxford in 1599. He was proctor of the university of Cambridge, 1609, was chosen master of Peterhouse, 1617, and vice-chancellor, 1621. He held a prebend at Wells, and was chaplain to Charles, prince of Wales. When Charles was in Spain in 1623, King James sent Mawe and [q. v.], afterwards bishop of Ely, along with other officers and attendants, to join him, charging the chaplains to fit up a room chapel-wise, hold prayers twice a day, and generally so to manage as to commend the English service to the Spaniards. Mawe and the rest set sail on 3 April. During his journey through Spain he had a fall from his mule, 'lighting on his head and shoulders'. The prince was obliged to send orders that the greater part of the company was to return to England without coming on to Madrid, and Mawe returned through France. As a reward for his services he was appointed master of Trinity College by patent in 1625. Before he left Peterhouse he gave 300l. for covering the roof of the chapel then being built there with lead. As master of Trinity College he did much towards freeing that foundation from a heavy debt. He used all his influence to secure the election of the Duke of Buckingham as chancellor of the university in 1626, urging the members of his college to vote unanimously for the duke (Original Letters). In 1628 he received the see of Bath and Wells, being elected 24 June, and consecrated at Croydon 7 Sept. He died on 2 Sept. 1629 at Chiswick, and was buried in the church there. He was 'a good scholar, a grave preacher, a mild man, and one of gentle deportment'. There is a portrait of him in the palace at Wells.



MAWSON, MATTHIAS (1683–1770), bishop of Ely, was born in August 1683, his father being a prosperous brewer at Chiswick, Middlesex. He was educated at St. Paul's School, whence he was admitted in 1701 to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. 1704, M.A. 1708, B.D. 1716, D.D. 1725. and was elected a fellow of his society in 1707, and a moderator in the university in 1708. On 6 Oct. 1724 he was chosen master of his college, and held the office till 20 Feb. 1744. Soon after his appointment he was presented by Bishop Greene to the rectory of Conington in Cambridgeshire, and afterwards to that of Hadstock in Essex; the latter he held for many years. In 1730 and 1731 he was vice-chancellor of the university, and signalised his term of office by several useful reforms. Academic exercises were made more stringent and orderly; capricious migration from college to college was checked; and the practice of exhuming bodies from the