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 not made treasurer till July 1232. Early in 1233 he was expelled from his office through the influence of Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester, and fined 100l. Mauclerk determined to appeal to the pope, and in October was on his way to leave England when he was violently stopped at Dover; on an appeal to the king by the other bishops he was released, and allowed to go to Flanders. The ‘Chronicle of Lanercost’ alleges that this voluntary exile was on account of the injuries done to his church, and that for the same cause Carlisle was under interdict on 27 Nov. 1233, the first Sunday in Advent. Mauclerk was pardoned at the intercession of Archbishop Edmund, and soon recovered the royal favour. Stephen de Segrave [q. v.] endeavoured, on his fall in 1234, to excuse himself under the plea that Mauclerk, as the higher authority, was really responsible. In 1235 Mauclerk was sent to negotiate a marriage for the king with the daughter of Simon, count of Ponthieu, but without success, and in April of the same year was engaged on a mission to the Emperor Frederick (, i. 469). In 1236 he witnessed the confirmation of the charters. In 1239 he was one of the sponsors for the king's son Edward. Mauclerk was also present at the meeting of the bishops on the state of the churches in 1241. He was one of the councillors during Henry's absence in France in 1243, and governor of the kingdom while Henry was in Wales in 1245, on which account he was excused from attendance at the council of Lyons. In 1248 he resigned his bishopric and became a Dominican at Oxford 29 June (Ann. Mon. iii. 170, but Wykes, iv. 94, gives the date as 24 June). He died on 28 Oct. following. The writer of the ‘Flores Historiarum’ gives a not too favourable character of Mauclerk. He says that the bishop had resigned his see in his old age out of a feeling that he had owed it rather to royal favour than to his learning and character. ‘This is he whom fortune ofttimes raised up only to dash down; who imprudently concerned himself with the royal policy, that he had neither the power nor will to carry out; who negotiated unsuitable alliances for the king in Scotland and Ponthieu.’ He further alleges, with monkish jealousy, that it was Mauclerk who obtained for the Dominicans, perhaps by bribery, the unheard-of privilege that no friar might legitimately leave that order for another. Mauclerk is, however, said to have made a good end, thus hoping to avert the sinister omen of his surname. Mauclerk had a brother, R., prior of Reading, whom John wanted to make abbot of St. Albans in 1215 (Cal. Rot. Pat. p. 140). Two nephews of his are also mentioned, Arnhale (, i. 68) and Ralph, who in 1231 was made prior of Carlisle (Chron. Lanercost, p. 41). 

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MAUDE, THOMAS (1718–1798), minor poet and essayist, belonged to the ancient family of Maude of Alverthorpe and Wakefield, Yorkshire (, Commoners, ii. 84). He was born in Downing Street, Westminster, during May 1718 (cf. Gent. Mag. 1841, pt. i. p. 597, and pt. ii. p. 36), and entered the medical profession. In 1755 he was appointed surgeon on board the Barfleur, commanded by Lord Harry Powlett [q. v.] Maude's favourable evidence at a court-martial before which Lord Harry was tried at Portsmouth in October 1755 was so highly valued by his commander that upon his succession as sixth and last Duke of Bolton in 1765 he appointed Maude steward of his Yorkshire estates. This post he held, residing at Bolton Hall, Wharfedale, until the death of the duke in 1794. He then retired to Burley Hall, near Ottley, where he died unmarried in December 1798, aged 80 (York Courant, Monday, 14 Jan. 1799). He was buried in Wensley churchyard; lines from the ‘Deserted Village’ are engraved on his tomb (Notes and Queries, 4th ser. viii. 230).

Maude's accomplishments were inconsiderable, but he was esteemed for his love of ‘letters and of man.’ His verses are mainly descriptive of the Yorkshire dales. He contributed to Grose's ‘Antiquities’ the information about Bolton Castle and Wensleydale. Grose, who was his friend, quotes from ‘Wharfedale’ in illustration of Aysgarth Bridge. William Paley [q. v.], the divine, also visited Maude at Bolton (ib. 2nd ser. viii. 407).

His works are: 1. ‘Wensleydale, or Rural Contemplations; a Poem,’ 1772, 4to; 3rd edition, London, 1780; 4th edition, Richmond, Yorkshire, 1816. Published for the benefit of Leeds General Infirmary. 2. ‘An Account of the Cowthorpe Oak, near Weatherby, Yorks,’ 1774. See ‘Opuscula Botanica,’ vol. clxiv. 3. ‘Verbeia, or Wharfedale; a Poem descriptive and didactic,’ 1782, 4to. 4. ‘Viator; a Journey from London to Scarborough by way of York; a Poem, with notes historical and topographical,’ 1782, 4to. 5. ‘The Invitation, or Urbanity; a Poem,’