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of Athelftane, under the name of three Plough-lands in 
Mealinges.” After a temporary alienation, it was re- 
ltored to the bifhops of this fee, previoufly to the Domef- 
day Survey, at which time “ here were a church and a 
mill.” In the year 1090, bifhop Gnndulph founded a 
BenediCtine nunnery here, and endowed it with the ma¬ 
nor, church, and other eftates ; he governed it in perfon 
during his life, but directed that in future it fhould be un¬ 
der the jurifdiCtion of an abbefs, fubordinate to the bi- 
Ihops of Rochefter. In 1190, the abbey, as it was then 
called, and the village, fuffered by fire, but were foon re- 
ftored ; in the time of king John, the abbefs had a grant 
of free-warren for all her demefne ; and Henry III. added 
the privilege of a weekly market, and three annual fairs. 
After the diffolution, the manor and abbey-buildings 
were exchanged with archbifhop Cranmer; and have fince 
palled through various families to the Honeywoods. The 
late Filmer Honey wood, efq. pulled down the abbey-houfe, 
and with the materials ereCted the prefent manfion, pre- 
ferving, as much as poffible, the ancient ftyle and form. 
It is now' the refidence of George Talbot Hatley Foote, 
efq. Many parts of the conventual pile are, however, yet 
handing, being ufed as offices, together w ith a portion of 
the weft end of the abbey-church, which is an iriterefting 
remain of Norman architecture, and is ornamented with 
fculptures of heads, animals, and interfering arches. The 
abbey-grounds are watered by a clear ftream, which flows 
from Nether-Well, in the Hamlet of St. Leonard’s; where 
is yet (landing the ruined tower of St. Leonard’s chapel, 
a very ftrong remain, much refembling the keep of a Nor¬ 
man caftle ; its prefent height is feventy-one feet: the 
walls are feven feet in thicknefs. 
The town confifts principally of one fpacious ftreet, 
well built, and about half a mile in length, together with 
feveral detached manfions belonging to refpeCtable fami¬ 
lies. The paiifh-church is a large fabric, confifting of a 
nave and chancel, with a Norman tower; the nave has 
been moftly rebuilt fince the year 1778, wheu the whole 
roof fell in, through the decay of the main columns. 
Here are fome ancient and curious braftes. A fmall free- 
fchool was built in 1632, by a bequeft of Mr. Francis 
Trefle. Mailing is fix miles weft of Maidftone, and 
twenty-nine fouth-eaft of London. Lat. 51.18. N. Ion. 
o. 30. E. 
Eaft Mailing is a village on the oppofite fide of the 
river, about a mile diftant. Here is Bradbourne, the 
feat of fir John Papillon Twyfden, hart, which, though 
not particularly extenfive, forms one of the moll delight¬ 
ful refidences in Kent. Some good portraits of the 
learned judge Twyfden, who died here in 1666, are pre- 
ferved in Bradbourne-houfe. 
Two miles fouth-eaft of Weft Mailing, is Mereworth- 
caltle, formerly the feat of lord Le Defpencer, but after¬ 
wards let to James Butler, efq. a fine piece of architec¬ 
ture, defigned by Colin Campbell, in imitation of a houle 
in Italy built by the famous Palladio. It is a fquare, ex¬ 
tending eighty-eight feet, and has four porticoes of the 
Ionic order. In the middle there rifes above the roof a 
lemicircular dome, which has two (hells; the one forms 
the ftucco ceiling of the faloon, being thirty-fix feet in 
diameter; the outward fliell is carpentry, covered with 
lead. Between thefe two (hells is a ftrong brick arch, 
that brings twenty-four funnels to the lantern, which is 
finifhed with copper; but by this contrivance the misfor¬ 
tune is, that the chimneys often fmoke. 
Teflon, with a large ftone bridge over the Medway, 
is two miles and a half fouth-eaft from Weft Mailing. 
Thisparifh is a borough, and hath a court-leet of its own, 
at which the borfholder is fworn. 
Weft or Little Peckham is three miles fouth-weft from 
Weft Mailing. A free-fchool was founded and endowed 
here in 14.08, for the Knights Templars; but it was 
afterwards taken from them, and given to thofe of St. 
John of Jerufalem. 
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Padlefvvorth is a village three miles north of Mailing, 
and near Snodland, by the Medway. 
MALLINGTO'NIA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
didynamia, order angiofpermia. EfTential generic cha¬ 
racters—Calyx with a five-toothed reflected margin ; co¬ 
rolla with a very long tube, and four-cleft border; an¬ 
ther® two-parted, fheathing. 
Mallingtonia hortenfis, a fingle fpecies. A very large- 
tree, with compound doubly-pinnate leaves ; leaflets ovate, 
entire, glabrous ; panicle terminal ; corolla white, odo¬ 
rous, 
MAL'LOj a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania, at the mouth of the Stihoun : twenty-five 
miles fouth-eaft of Adana. 
MAL'LOCOC'CA, f. in botany. See Grewia. 
MALLOODOO' BA'Y, a bay on the north coaft of 
Borneo. Lat. 6. 45. N. Ion. 117.2. E. 
MALLO'RA, a fmall ifiand in the Mediterranean, near 
the coaft of Etruria i three miles well of Leghorn. 
MAL'LOT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Calvados : three miles fouth-fouth-weft of Caen. 
MALLO'THI, [Hebrew.] A fcripture name. 
MALLO'TES, the inhabitants of Mallos, a city of Ci¬ 
licia on the river Pyramus. They revolted from Antio- 
chus Epiphanes, becaule he had given them, with the 
city of Tarfus, to one of his miltreires named Antiochis. 
2 Macc. iv. 30. In this manner the kings of Perfia were 
ufed to give whole cities to their miftrefles, to find them 
in necklaces, girdles, &c. Calmtt. 
MALLO'TUSjyi [fo named, according to Loureiro, from 
Gr. hairy, thecapfuleof this plant being profufely 
and remarkably befet with hairs.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs dicecia, order polyandria, natural order of tri—' 
coccse, Linn, (euphorbias, JuJ}~.) The generic characters 
are—Male calyx: perianthium inferior, of three roundifh, 
concave, wmolly, leaves. Corolla : none. Stamina : fila¬ 
ments numerous, fliort, inferted into the receptacle ; an¬ 
ther® two-lobed, roundifh. Female calyx : perianthium of 
three triangular, equilateral, hairy, expanded, leaves. Co¬ 
rolla : none. Piltillum : germen fuperior, roundifh, three- 
lobed ; ftyle none; ftigmas three, oblong, hairy, coloured, 
reflexed. Pericarpium : capfule roundilh, of three lobes, 
fix valves, and three cells, fingle-feeded, covered with a 
multiplicity of long and (oft hairs. Seeds : roundifh on 
one fide, angular on the other, remaining on their proper 
(talks upon the receptacle, after the capfule has fallen 
away.— EJJ'ential CharaEler. Male calyx of three leaves; 
corolla none; ftamens numerous. Female calyx of three 
leaves, inferior; corolla none; ftigmas three; capfule 
three-celled ; feeds lolitary, (talked. Loureiro remarks, 
that this genus is nearly related to Cliffortia, but that it 
differs in having the capfule fuperior and three-celled, as 
well as in having three feffile ftigmas. 
Mallotus Cochinchinenfis, the only fpecies known. 
It is a tree of middling height, with fpreading branches. 
Leaves alternate, roundifh, generally three-lobed ; a few 
however are undivided, ovate, pointed ; all of them (land 
on footftalks, are toothed and downy. Flowers reflexed, 
in loofe clufters, ending in a fpike. Found about hedges 
and neglefted gardens, in Cochinchina and China. 
Loureiro found the male flowers of Mallotus occafionally 
to vary, in having their calyx-leaves lanceolate, hairy, and 
fpreading. Filaments upwards of forty, fhorter than the 
calyx ; anther® ovate, ereCt. He met with this variety 
growing near Canton, but could find no female flowers in 
'that neighbourhood. 
MAL'LOW,/ \_malva, Lat. mselepe, Sax.] A planr. 
See Malva. 
Shards or mallows for the pot, 
That keep the loofen’d body found. Dry den. 
MAL'LOW, Bafe ; fee Malope. Jew’s; fee Cor- 
chorus. Indian; fee Sida and Urena. Marfh; fee 
Althaea. Rofe; fee Alc^a. Syrian; fee Hibiscus. 
3 Tree; 
