573 MAY 
James I’s reign, at a little market-town called Hatherleigh, 
in Devonfliire. He received his education at Weltminf- 
ter fchool, where he continued til! the age of nineteen, 
w hen he was removed to the univerfity of Oxford, where 
he was admitted into Chriftchurch College, in the rank 
of a fcrvilor ; but in the enfuing year, viz. 1634, he was 
chofen into the number of ftudents on that noble foun¬ 
dation. Here he took his degrees of bachelor and matter 
of arts ; after which he entered into orders, and was pre¬ 
ferred to two livings in the gift of the college, one of 
which was fituated pretty near Oxford. It does net, how¬ 
ever, feem to have been fo much the doctor's own incli¬ 
nation that led him to the pulpit, as the folicitation of 
certain perfons of eminence, who, on account of the 
figur'e he made at the univerfity in the ftudy of arts and 
fciences, and from an elteetn for his abilities, which they 
were defirous of being enabled to reward, urged him to 
go into orders. 
On the breaking out of the civil wars, when king 
Charles I. was obliged to fly for fhelter to Oxford, and 
keep his court there, Mr. Mayne wae one of the divines 
appointed to preach before his majefty. Soon after this, 
viz. in 1646, he was created doctor in divinity; and in 
1647 he publifhed a piece entitled Ochaomachia, or The 
People’s War examined according to the Principles of 
Reafon and Scripture. In 1648 he was deprived of his 
Itudentftiip at Chriftchurch, and two livings he had ; but 
during the rage of the civil war he found an hofpitable 
refuge in the family of the earl of Devonfliire, where he 
continued till the Reftoration, when he was not only re- 
Itored to his former benefices, but made one of the canons 
of Chriftchurch, chaplain in ordinary to his majefty, and 
archdeacon of Chichelter; all of which preferments he 
kept till his death, which happened on the 6th of De¬ 
cember, 1672. He lies buried on the north fide of the 
choir in the cathedral of Chriftchurch. 
Dr. Mayne was held in very high efteem, both for his 
natural parts and his acquired accomplifliments. He was 
an orthodox preacher, and a man of fevere virtue and ex¬ 
emplary behaviour ; yet of a ready and facetious wit, and 
a very Angular turn of humour. From fome (lories that 
are related of him, he feems to have borne a degree of re- 
femblance in his manner to the celebrated Dr. Swift. The 
following anecdote, though it reflects no great honour on 
his memory, as it feems to carry fome degree of cruelty 
with it, yet is a ftrong mark of his refemblance to the 
dean, and a proof that his propenfity for drollery and joke 
<1 id not quit him even in his latefi moments. The Ifory 
is this : The doftor had an old fervant, who had lived 
with him fome years, to whom lie bequeathed an old 
trunk ; in which he told him “ he would find fomething 
•that would make him drink after his death’” The fer¬ 
vant, full of expectation that his matter, under this fami¬ 
liar expreflion, had left him fomewhat that would tie a 
reward for the afliduity of his palt fervices, as foon as de¬ 
cency would permit, flew to the trunk; when behold, to 
his great difappointment, the boafted legacy proved to be 
—a red fierring. The dodtor, however, bequeathed many 
legacies, by will, to pious ules; particularly 500I. towards 
the building of St. Paul’s cathedral, and 200I. to be dif- 
tributed to the poor of the pariflies of Caifington, and 
Pyrton near Watlington, of both which places he had 
been vicar. Previous to his death, viz. in 1662, he had 
jjiven iool. towards rebuilding Wolfey’s Quadrangle, in 
Chriftchurch, Oxford. 
In his younger years lie had an attachment to poetry, 
and wrote two plays, the termer of which may be l'een in 
Dodfley’s Collection, viz. 1. The City Match, a comedy, 
folio, 1639. 2. The Amorous War, a tragi-comedy, 4to. 
1648. He publifhed a poem upon the naval victory by 
the duke of York over the Dutch, printed in 1665. He 
a!fo tranflated into Englifh from the Greek part of Lu¬ 
cian’s Dialogues. 
MAYNE, adiftriClof the North-American States. See 
Maine, p, 161. 
' MAY 
MAYNE, a river of Ireland, in the county of Antrim^ 
which runs into Lough Neagh one mile fouth of Ran- 
dalftown. 
MAYNE, a river of France, formed by tha union of 
the Mayenne and Sarte, about three miles to the north of 
Angers, which joins the Loire about four miles below. 
MAYNE and LOIRE, fo called from the union of thofe 
two rivers, is one of the nine departments of the welterrs 
region of France, which formed the ancient province of 
Anjou 5 it is bounded on the north by the departments of 
the Mayenne and Sartlie ; on the eaft by the department 
of the Indre and Loire; on the fouth by the departments 
of the Vendee, the Two Sevres, and the Vienne ; and on 
the welt by the department of the Lower Loire. Its 
length is 26 French leagues, and breadth 21 leagues ; and 
its territorial extent is 7637^ chiliometres, or about 370- 
fquare leagues. According to M. Hafienfratz, the num¬ 
ber of inhabitants is 445,500. Its capital k Angers. 
This department, diverfitied with hills and plains, yields 
grain, flax, hemp, fruits, abundant paftures, confiderable 
fore Its, mines of coal, See. and quarries of marble, ltone, 
and flate. 
MAYNOO'TH, a poft-town of Ireland, in the count/ 
of Kildare, and province of Leinlter. In this town is 
the Royal College of St. Patrick, for the education of per¬ 
fons profefling the Roman-catholic religion, inftituted by 
aCt of parliament in the year 1795. The building con- 
fifts of lodging-rooms, fchools, a church, library, hall, and 
different offices Ratable to the accommodation of two 
hundred ecclefiaftical ftudents, hefides profeffors, officers, 
and fervants. There is alfo a Lay College, eftablifhed by 
private lubfeription in 1802. When the evils attendant 
on a foreign education, efpecially under the circumliances 
in which the Roman-catholic clergy of Ireland were edu¬ 
cated at the expenfe of foreign powers, are confidered, it 
muft be admitted to have been a wife ftep in the parlia¬ 
ment of Ireland to provide a place of education for them 
at home ; and it is furprifing that the expenfe thus in¬ 
curred fliould ever have been objected to by Proteftants. 
The queftion is not, Whether the tenets of popery are 
deferving of fupport? but, Whether the population of 
Ireland is to' be fupplied with prielts educated at the 
expenfe, and of courf'e attached to the intereft, of fo¬ 
reign powers, or fupplied with them from a college fup- 
ported at the national expenfe ? Maynooth had formerly 
a college founded in 1518 by an earl of Kildare, whole 
defeendant, the duke of Leinfter, has a princely refidence 
in the neighbourhood. It has alio a charter-fchool for 
fifty girls. Maynooth is twelve miles weft-by-north from 
Dublin. 
MAY'NSTON, a village in Shropfhire, near Bilhop’s 
Stoke ; with two charity-lchools. 
MAY'NWARING (Arthur), an eminent political 
writer in the beginning of the eighteenth century, after 
ftudying at Oxford, went into Chelhire, where he lived 
fome time with his uncle Mr. Francis Cholmondeley, a 
nonjuror. Here he profecuted his Itudies in polite lite¬ 
rature with great vigour; and then, coming up to Lon¬ 
don, applied to the Itudy of the law. He was hitherto 
very zealous in anti-revolutional principles, and wrote fe- 
veral pieces in favour of king James II. bur, upon being 
introduced to the duke of Sotnerfet, and the earls of Dor- 
fet and Burlington, he began to entertain different no¬ 
tions in politics. His father left him an eltate of near 
800k a-year, but fo encumbered, that the intereft of the 
mortgage amounted to almolt as much as the revenue. 
Upon the conclufion of the peace he went to Paris, where 
he became acquainted with M. Boile.au. After his re¬ 
turn he was made one of the commiflioners of the cuf- 
toms, in which polt he diltinguifhed himfelf by his (kill 
and indultry. lie was a member of the Kit-cat club, and 
was looked upon as one of the chief fupports of it by his 
pleafantry and wit. In the beginning of queen Anne’s 
reign, the lord-treafuret Godolphin engaged Mr. Donne 
so quit the office of auditor of the imprelts, and made 
Maymvaring 
