from Heraldic Illustrations, by John Burke, Esq. & John Bernard Burke, Esq., printed 1844 London, now out of print.

JOHN MAUDE, of Moor House, Esq. A Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Author of a "Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800," is the chief landed Representative in Yorkshire of the old and distinguished Baronial Family of MAUDE, and bears the ancient Arms which were proved and recorded in Glover's Visitation, A.D. 1585, by Arthur Mawhaut or Maude, of West Riddlesden. The Patriarch of the Family in England was Eustace de Monte Alto, surnamed the "Norman Hunter," one of the soldiers of the Conquest in the immediate train of Hush Lupus (see Burke's Landed Gentry). The present head of the senior line is Cornwallis Maude, Viscout Hawarden.

Arms. - Ar. Three bars gemelles sa. Over all a lion ramp. Gu. Charged on the shoulder with a cross crosslet fitchée or.

Crest. - A lion's head couped gu. Charged with a cross crosslet fitchée or.

Motto. - De Monte Alto.