He was educated on the foundation at Westminster School,[1] whence he was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, on 18 April 1578,[2] and graduated B.A.
James I, out of admiration for his florid pulpit eloquence and dislike of tobacco, made him his chaplain, and on 21 June 1612 appointed him dean of Windsor and register of the order of the Garter.
[4] Maxey offered money to Sir Henry Hobart for preferment,[5] and two months before his death made the highest bid for the vacant see of Norwich.
By will he made liberal provision for his poor kinsfolk and servants, but "unto Roger my cooke, beinge verye lewde in his tongue, and besides corrupting my clarke, Roberte Berrye, with tobacco and drinckinge," he bequeathed nothing, "neyther in money nor mourninge cloke."
[7] Maxey published three sermons preached before the king, with the title The Churches Sleepe and The Golden Chaine of Mans Saluation, and the fearefull point of hardening, 3 pts.