He organised celebrations for the 35th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth, involving musicians, cannon salutes or musket volleys, and a banquet.
[1] On 29 May 1594 he wrote to Robert Cecil about the capture of the goldsmith Jacob Kroger who had stolen jewels belonging to the Scottish queen Anne of Denmark, and the movements of the Scottish rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell.
[2][3] In September 1594 he organised a banquet and civic entertainments for Walraven III van Brederode and Jacob Valke who had travelled from Stirling.
In Newcastle they were treated to a banquet including baked rabbit, fish, and swan, a barrel of London beer, and sugar confectionaries, to the accompaniment of music by the town waits.
[9] Their children included: Lionel Maddison junior may have commissioned the family monument in Newcastle Cathedral.