 Soon after, on 9 June, he was ordained priest by bishop Edmund Gibson who sent him to Queens’ College, Cambridge, who awarded him BA the following year.In 1724 he was given the vicarship of Whiteparish, Wiltshire, and in 1729 Maddox the rectorate of St Vedast Foster Lane, London.In the same year, he was also appointed domestic chaplain to Edward Waddington, bishop of Chichester, who gave him a prebendary at Chichester.