Thomas Mallory (priest) explained

Thomas Mallory was a seventeenth-century English priest.^[1]

Mawdesley was born at Studley Yorkshire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Caius from 1592 to 1600. He held livings at Romaldkirk and Davenham. He was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1603 to 1607; and Dean of Chester from then until his death on 3 April 1644.^[2]

Notes and References

1. "History of the city of Chester, from its foundation to the present time : with an account of its antiquities, curiosities, local customs, and peculiar immunities; and a concise political history" Hemingway, J Chester' J. Fletcher; 1831 p. 316
2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol3/pp. 188–195 British History on-line