 The senior line of the Maynard family was seated at Sherford in the parish of Brixton in Devon.His name appears in the matriculation register of Exeter College, Oxford, under date 26 April 1621, which clashes unaccountably with the date of his admission to the degree of BA on 25 April 1621, given in the "University Register of Degrees".In 1619 he entered the Middle Temple; he was called to the Bar in November 1626, and was elected a bencher in 1648.