Admitted 29 November, 1600.
Son and heir of Malachi Malett of Luxilian (Luxulion), co. Cornwall. He was called to the Bar 7 Nov. 1606, in Lent Term, 1626, filled the office of Reader, and was Treasurer in 1633. In 1635, after being Solicitor-General to the Queen, he was honoured with the Coif, and appointed a judge of the King's Bench in 1641. In the following year he was committed to the Tower for his support to the king in the matter of the Militia Ordinance, and, being released, was again seized in his own court at Kingston-on-Thames by order of the Parliament for refusing their ordinance to be read. After the Restoration, though seventy-eight years of age, he was restored to his seat on the bench, and honoured with a Baronetcy, though the warrant was never completed. He died 19 Dec. 1665.
His son and heir, John Malet, was admitted a member of the Inn on 9 Oct. 1634, and was called to the Bar 9 July, 1641. He was afterwards Recorder of Bridgewater, and knighted in the year of his father's death.
Admitted 30 March, 1720.
Son of Richard Malone of Dublin. He was called to the Bar in Dublin in 1726. For many years he sat in the Irish Parliament. He became Serjeant-at-Law in 1740, but was removed in 1754 for opposing the claim of the Crown to dispose of unappropriated revenue. Notwithstanding this, in 1757 he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1762 he was one of the Commissioners to try the Whiteboys. He died in 1776, with the reputation of holding the foremost place in his profession in Ireland.
MANCHESTER, EARLS OF. See MONTAGU, EDWARD (1602-1671), and MONTAGU, HENRY.
Admitted 6 February, 1654-5.
Son and heir of Thomas Manley of "Westminster. He was called to the Bar 24 Jan. 1672-3. His early writings were of a religious character; but in 1662 he published a work on Solicitors, and in 1665 a translation of Grotius' De Rebus Belgicis, and he edited in 1676 the seventh edition of Wentworth's Office and Duty of Executors; but his most important and interesting treatise was a work on The Present State of Europe, written in 1671, but not published till 1689, directed against the ambitious designs of Louis XIV. Other treatises from his pen were a Relation of the Marches and Sufferings of Charles I. from 1641 to 1648, collected by a Daily Attendant on his Majesty (1660); and a tract on Usury (1669). In the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (1672), there is an entry of a message from the King "to the Masters of the Bench, requiring them to "admit Thomas Manley to the degree of Barrister … without the accustomed ceremonies and formalities." He was called on the following January, "on payment of all moneys owing."
