met him at Swyn, and petitioned for leave to return to England, pleading that he had been condemned unheard. In consideration of the great service he had done the king in Flanders, he was granted the royal protection on 5 Aug., and allowed to return to England (Fœdera, iii. 56; Rolls of Parl. ii. 173 a). The confirmation of his pardon was delayed owing to his employment in 1346 on urgent business abroad, but the protection was renewed on 28 Dec. 1347 (Fœdera, iii. 146). In June 1348 he was sent on a mission to the commonalties of Ghent, Bruges, and Ypres (ib. iii. 162). Final restitution of his honour and lands was not made till 8 Feb. 1352 (Rolls of Parl. ii. 243). He was governor of the Channel Islands in 1351. A John Maltravers fought at Crecy and Poitiers, but there were other persons of the same name (e.g. his own son, and a cousin, Sir John Maltravers of Crowell), and it is not clear which is meant. Maltravers died on 16 Feb. 1365, and was buried at Lytchett.
Maltravers married (1) Ela or Eva, daughter of Maurice, lord Berkeley, and sister of the keeper of Edward II, and (2) Agnes, daughter of Sir William Bereford. Maltravers's second wife had previously married both Sir John de Argentine (d. 1318) and Sir John de Nerford (d. 1329). She died after 1374, and was buried at Greyfriars, London (Coll. Top. et Gen.} By his first wife he had a son John, who died 13 Oct. 1350 (1360 according to Nicolas), leaving by his wife Wensliana a son Henry and two daughters, Joan and Eleanor. Henry Maltravers died before his grandfather, at whose death the barony fell into abeyance, between his granddaughters, Joan, who was twice married but left no children, and Eleanor, who married John Fitzalan, second son of Richard, third earl of Arundel. John Fitzalan, her grandson, succeeded as sixth earl of Arundel in 1415, and Thomas, son and heir of William, ninth earl, sat in parliament during his father's life, from 1471 to 1488, as Baron Maltravers. Mary, daughter of the twelfth earl, carried the title to Philip Howard, fourth duke of Norfolk. In 1628 the barony of Maltravers was by act of parliament annexed to the earldom of Arundel, and the title is consequently still held by the Duke of Norfolk.
Maltravers re-founded in 1351 the hospital of Bowes at St. Peter's Port in Guernsey (Dugdale, Monasticon, vi. 711). His name is usually given by contemporary writers as Mautravers or Matravers.
[Murimuth's Chronicle (Rolls Ser.); Baker's Chronicle, ed. E. M. Thompson; Rolls of Parliament; Parliamentary Writs; Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, 1327-30; Rymer's Fœdera (Record edit.); Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 101; Hutchins's Dorset, ii. 315-21; Collectanea Top. et Gen. v. 150-4; Nicolas's Historic Peerage, pp. 308-9, ed. Courthope.]
MALVERN, WILLIAM of, alias PARKER (fl. 1535), last abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester, was born between 1485 and 1490, and is said to have been of the family of Parker of Hasfield in Gloucestershire. He was probably educated at the Benedictine abbey of Gloucester, and was sent by the monks to Gloucester Hall, Oxford, where he supplicated for leave to use a 'typett,' 17 April 1507, being at that time B.C.L. He supplicated for the university degrees of D.C.L. 29 Jan. 1507-8, B.D. 1 July 1511, D.D. 17 May 1514; he was not admitted to the degree of D.D. until 5 May 1515. Meanwhile he had returned to Gloucester, and entered the Benedictine order at St. Peter's Abbey. Under the abbot John Newton, alias Brown, Malvern was supervisor of the works, and acquired a taste for building, which he was afterwards able to gratify. On 4 May 1514 he was elected abbot, and in that capacity frequently attended parliament. Wolsey visited the abbey in 1525 and found the revenues to be just over a thousand pounds. Malvern added a good deal to the buildings. He repaired and in part rebuilt the abbot's house (now the palace) in the city, and also the country house at Prinknash. At Barnwood he built the tower, and in the cathedral the vestry at the north end of the cross aisle and the chapel where he was buried. He is said to have been opposed to Henry VIII's ecclesiastical policy, but he paid 500l. as the premunire composition, and on 31 Aug. 1534 he subscribed to the supremacy. He seems also to have been friendly with Rowland Lee [q. v.], bishop of Coventry, and attended him when he was doing his best to support Henry's views (Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ed. Gairdner, viii. 915). Henry himself seems to have been at Gloucester in 1535. During the year Malvern was charged by an anonymous accuser with having tried to hush up the scandal connected with Llanthony Abbey, about which Dr. Parker, the chancellor of Worcester, perhaps a kinsman of Malvern, had been appealed to in vain. The accusation is preserved in the Record Office. St. Peter's Abbey surrendered 2 Dec. 1539, and the deed was signed by the prior, but not by Malvern. He does not seem to have had a pension, and this gives credibility to the account that at the dissolution he retired to Hasfield, and there died very shortly afterwards. He was buried in the chapel he had built on the north side of the choir of
