Church. He married Elizabeth (d. 1736), daughter of William Hastings of Hinton.
Maynard edited and published in 1716, fol., the second edition of Dugdale's ‘History of St. Paul's Cathedral,’ and published two volumes of ‘Sermons,’ London, 1722–4, 8vo. He bequeathed to Magdalen College his library, which included about twenty volumes on the popish controversy in James II's reign, the sum of 500l. and a silver flagon presented to him at Lincoln's Inn in 1700. He also made charitable bequests to Daventry and Boddington and to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
[Bloxam's Reg. of Magdalen Coll. v. (ii.), 319, 320; Bridge's Northamptonshire; Wilford's Memorials, 1741, pp. 781–2.]
MAYNARD, JOHN (fl. 1611), lutenist, and, according to Wood, one of the first who used the lyra-viol (Manuscript Lives), was probably born in Shropshire. It appears from the preface to 'The Twelve Wonders,' that he belonged at one time to the household of Caux (or Cause) Castle, Shropshire. In 1611 Maynard was lutenist to the school of St. Julian (once the hospital for lepers) in Hertfordshire.
Maynard's volume of songs, of which he appears to have written words and music, was printed by Thomas Snodham for John Brown in 1611. The title runs, 'The Twelve Winders of the World, set and composed for the Violl de gambo, the Lute, and the Voyce to sing the Verse, all three jointly and none severall; also Lessons for the Lute and Bass-violl to play alone; with some Lessons to play Lyra-wayes alone, or if you will to fill up the parts with another Violl set Lute-waye.' A canon, in eight parts, is on the title-page. Wood quotes some of the verses (Athenæ, iii. 892). The work is dedicated to Joan, wife of John Thynne, son and successor to the founder of Longleat. A manuscript organ voluntary by Maynard is in a volume of manuscript music, once in the possession of Richard Clark, and now in the library of the Royal College of Music.
[Grove's Dict. of Music, ii. 241; Chauncy's Hertfordshire, p. 506; authorities cited.]
MAYNARD, Sir JOHN (1592–1658), courtier, presbyterian, and royalist, second son of Sir Henry Maynard of Estaines Parva, Essex, by Susan, second daughter of Thomas Pierson, gentleman-usher of the Star-chamber, was born in 1592. He entered the Inner Temple in 1610, but does not appear to have been called to the bar. Except that he was 'extremely purblind,' he would have been, says Chamberlain, 'a proper man,' and danced the admired of all beholders in the court masque on Twelfth Night, 161 8-19. In July 1622 he was present at the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom, of which he wrote an account to Buckingham (Hist. MSS. Comm. 10th Rep. App. p. 107). For Buckingham he composed a masque, performed on 19 Nov. 1623 at York House in the presence of Mendoza, who resented its congratulatory allusions to the return of the prince from Spain. It was again performed in August 1624 at Burley-on-the-IIill, but with no great approbation (Nichols, Progresses of James I, iii. 521, 941; Court and Times of James I, ii. 472).
Maynard entered the House of Commons in January 1623-4 as member for Chippenham, for which borough he also sat in the first parliament of Charles I, at whose coronation he was created a knight of the Bath, and appointed servant of the privy chamber (2 Feb. 1624-5). In Charles's second parliament he represented Colne. He was a partisan of Buckingham, by whom he appears to have been retained as a sort of political pamphleteer. In Buckingham's interest, but without his privity, he published before 1627-8 a 'Discourse' representing him as hostile to Arminianism, and on occasion of the discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell (March 1627-8) forged a letter purporting to be from an English Jesuit to the father rector at Brussels, in which the duke was made to appear as the 'furious enemy of the Society of Jesus. The letter was accepted as genuine by all but Buckingham, who detected Maynard's hand, and censured him for some indiscreet allusions to Dulbier's horse. In June 1637 Maynard excited a brawl at a bowling-green by striking Jack Craven with his fist for making default in payment of a debt, and thrashing Lord Powis for interposing. The quarrel was with much ado made up by the lord chamberlain (Documents relating to the Proceedings against William Prynne, Camden Soc., p. 80).
On the rupture with the king in June 1642, Maynard adhered to the parliament, and was active in raising troops in Surrey. A contemporary tract (The Lawes Subversion, &c., 1648) states that he 'lent 2,100l. upon the first propositions,' i.e. in July 1642; and that 'when the army was new moulded (1645), and Sir Thomas Fairfax elected general, he lent 1,000l. and procured 3,000l. more by his influence upon his friends towards that 8,000l. which necessity then required.' These statements, however, are not confirmed by the 'Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for the Advance of Money.'
