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in 1761, to publish a pamphlet, entitled “ Confiderations 
on the Inftitution and Conduct of the Society for the 
Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts,” in which he 
endeavoured to vindicate it from the accufation of mifap- 
plying its revenues. Dr. Mayhew, from birth and educa* 
tion, had imbibed a difiike of ecclefiaftical eftablifhments, 
and probably a particular antipathy to epifcopacy. He 
was therefore induced to publifh a reply to this piece, 
tinder the title of “ Obfervations on the Charter and Con- 
duft of the Society, &c.” It Was written with coniider- 
able warmth ; and its tendency was to prove, that many 
abufes, inconliftent with the tenor of the charter, had been 
pradtifed ; and that the fociety had either been impofed 
upon by mifreprefentations from America, or had unjufti- 
fiably mifapplied their funds. The matter and manner 
of this publication, (termed by archbifhop Seeker's bio¬ 
graphers “an angry pamphlet,”) brought feveral attacks 
upon the author, l’onie of them in a ftrain of violent in- 
veftive. The difpute was rendered more acrimonious by 
the projedt then entertained of fettling hilltops of the 
Englilh eftablilltment in different parts of America. With¬ 
out entering into the particulars of a controverfy which 
lias ceafed to be important, it is fufficient to mention, that 
the moll temperate and well-reafoned reply was an anony¬ 
mous piece written by archbifhop Seeker, in which, if he 
did not entirely vindicate the million from blame, he gave 
fuch a judicious defence of the plan for providing the 
epifcopalians of America with the officers neceflary for 
completing their church-government, that Dr. Mayhew 
himfelf, in a refpeftful anfwer, made proper concellions 
on this head. The final refult was, that the abufes, if 
any, were corrected, and tlie controverfy dropped. Some 
oecafional fermons and difeonrfes on various topics, reli¬ 
gious and political, were added at different times to the 
publications of Dr. Mayhew, who diligently employed 
himfelf in the duties of his vocation till his death, after a 
fhort illnefs, in 1766. He was greatly lamented by the 
clergy and laity in Boflon and its neighbourhood ; and 
his memory furvives as that of one of the ahlell and moll 
enlightened divines whom America had at that time pro¬ 
duced. Gen. Biog. 
MAY'ING,_/i The aft of gathering flowers on a May 
morning. 
To MAYL, v. a. To pinion the wings of a hawk. 
MAY'L,IXG,y The aft of pinioning. 
MAY'LLO, a town of Spain, in the province of Leon: 
fourteen miles ealt-fouth-ealt of Civdad Rodrigo. 
MAY'NA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs ditecia, 
natural order magnolia: (JuJf.) There is but one fpecies, 
Mayna odorata, dilcovered (the male plant only) by 
Aublet in Cayenne. He defenbes it as having leveral 
upright, Ample, flexible, brittle (terns, about lix feet high. 
Leaves alternate, (talked, ret> inches long, and three w ide, 
lanceolate, jnclining to obovate, pointed, entire, foinewhat 
Wavy, of a fine Ihining green, and a firm texture, with a 
prominent rib. and numerous veins beneath. Flowers.ax¬ 
illary, feveral together, on fhort (talks, white, and very 
agreeably Rented, produced in the month of December; 
the calyx is in three deep concave legments, externally 
hairy; petals eight, roumiilh, with fhort ereft claw s; lla- 
ihe.ns twenty-eight or thirty, riifpoied upon a conical re¬ 
ceptacle ; their filaments fhort, anthers long and quadran¬ 
gular, opening at the top. Aublet could find no traces, 
of a pistil', tier could lie difeoverthe female plant, though 
he carefully fought for it. Aub. Guian. t. 352. 
MAY'NARD (Francis), a French poet, born in 1582, 
was the fon of Gerard, a counfe.lior in the parliament of 
Touloufe. He came to court when young, and was fe- 
cretary to queen Margaret. He connected, Himfelf with 
the wits or the time ; and was the poetical dilciple of 
Malherbe. Iiis convivial talents and 1 ’prightly turn of 
compofition rendered him a favourite" in good companv, 
and introduced him to.ptrfons of rank, though with lit¬ 
tle advantage to ins fortune. The duke dfc Noaillcs, when 
appointed amballador to the court oi Rome in 1634, took 
VoL. XIV. No. 996. 
M A Y 
Maynard with him, who made himfelf very agreeable to 
pope Urban VIII. by the charms of his converlation. He 
was a member of the French Academy from its firlt infti- 
tution ; and took pains to ingratiate himfelf with cardinal 
Richelieu, but without fuccefs ; in revenge, he gave him 
the appellation of tyrant, and wrote fatirical verles upon 
him. Tired at length with the vain purfuit of fortune, 
he retired into his native province, where he died in 1646, 
at the age of fixty-four. Tim works of Maynard are Epi¬ 
grams, Songs, Odes, /and other mifcellaneous poems, with 
icme Letters in nrofe. Several of his fhort pieces are hap¬ 
pily turned. He maintained the character of a man of 
honour and a good friend, but of licentious principles. 
Gen. Biog. 
MAY'NARD (Sir John), an eminent Englilh lawyer, 
who diftinguifhed himfelf by his patriotifm, as well as his 
knowledge of jurifprudence, and integrity in his profef- 
lion. When the prince of Orange was declared king af¬ 
ter the abdication of James II. lir John waited upon the 
new monarch with an addrefs; and, William having ob- 
ferved to him that from his age he mull have outlived 
nioft of the judges and eminent lawyers of his (landing , 
he replied, “and I fhould have outlived the law too Ltd 
it not been for the arrival of your majefty.” He died in 
1690, aged 88, 
MAY'NAS, a government of South America, in the 
ealfern limit of the audience of Quito, lying contiguous 
to thole of Quixos and Jaen de Bracamoros towards the 
ealt. In the territories of this jurifdiclion are the fources 
of thofe rivers which, after rapidly travelling a vail ex¬ 
tent, form, by their confluence, the famous river of the 
Amazons, known alfo by the name of Maranon: the 
fliores of this, and the many other rivers which pay it the 
tribute of their waters, environ and pervade the govern¬ 
ment of Maynas. Its limits, both towards the north and 
fouth, are little known, extending far into the countries 
of the wild Indians ; and are leparated from the pofleflions 
of the Portuguefe by the famous line of demarcation, or 
the boundary between thofe countries belonging to Spain 
and Portugal. Santiago de la Laguna, which is the reli- 
dence of the governor, is properly the capital of Maynas ; 
though San Francifco de Boija has been ufually confi- 
dered as fuch. The lieutenant-governor refides at Co- 
cama, a miflionary-fettlement on the banks of a lake of 
the fame name. Here are 8895 Chriftians, with nineteen 
curates, and a fuperior of the millions; eacli of the for¬ 
mer having 200 dollars a-year, and the vicar 333, paid at 
the treafury of Quito, and chiefly remitted in effefts ; 
while tlie Indian fervants hunt and fill), and cultivate 
final! fields of rice and fugar-canes. Boys of ten or twelve 
years of age are trained by an ufeful policy to the rnagif- 
tracy, being annual iulpeftors of the conduct of their 
comrades, and correfting lmall offences, whilft rare ex¬ 
amples of crimes are reported to the judges. Thus of¬ 
fences are avoided, and young perfons are trained to 
lincere and good conduct. There are feveral other 
millionary-villages in this jurifdiftion : they trade with 
each others anil alio with Quito and L.uuas, in falted 
fith, chocolate, of which the arroba (25 lbs ) is fold for 
two rials, wax, yuca, and vegetable candles, called by the 
natives pojlas, being the fruit of a tree, which, w hen light¬ 
ed, prelciits at once wax and wick. Whether this tree oe 
the Croton febifera of Linnaeus has not been afeertained. 
There are alio fome ihanufyftures of cloaks and hats, 
made of the rich plumage of the birds with which the 
country abounds. 
MAY'NBERG, a town and caftle of the duchy of 
Wurzburg, lituated on the Maine: two miles ealt of 
Schweinf urt. 
M A Y'NBERNHEIM, a town of Germany, In the marg- 
gravate of Anlpach, near the Maine: twelve miles fouth- 
ealt of Wurzburg, and thirty-two north-north-welt of 
Anf’pach. 
MAYNE (J.ifper, D.D.), a learned and ingenious poet 
ami divine, ua» born in 1604, the iecond year of king 
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