DUCKE, Dr Arthur (1580-1648), of Wells and North Cadbury, Som., Chiswick, Mdx. and Aldersgate Street, London.

Family and Education

bap. 7 May 1580, 3rd s. of Richard Ducke (d. 1604) of Heavitree, Devon and Joan, da. of Robert Hayman of Newton Abbot, Devon;Heavitree par. reg.; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 309; F.T. Colby, ‘Fam. of Duck of Heavitree, Devon’, Mis. Gen. et Her. n.s. i. 317; Le Neve, Monumenta, i. 8-9; G.C. Moore Smith, ‘Robert Hayman and the plantation of Newfoundland’, EHR xxxiii. 24n. bro. of Nicholas†. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1595, BA 1599, MA Hart Hall 1602, BCL 1607, DCL 1612;Al. Ox. travelled abroad (Italy, France and Germany).W. Gouge, A Funerall Sermon Preached by Dr. Gouge (1646), sig. A3; Ath. Ox. iii. 257. m. by 1625 (with £1,400), Margaret (d. 1646), da. and coh. of Henry Southworth, merchant of Wells and London, at least 1s. d.v.p. 2da. 6 other ch. d.v.p.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 309; Colby, ‘Duck’, 317-18; Brown, Abstracts of Som. Wills, ii. 7; Ath. Ox. iii. 258; HMC Wells, ii. 387. d. 16 Dec. 1648.Smyth’s Obit. 27.

Offices Held

Academic: fell. All Souls, Oxf. 1604; jt. bursar, 1608; sub-warden, 1610.C.T. Martin, Cat. of the Archives in the Muniment Rooms of All Souls’ College (1877), 309, 310, 372.

Legal: adv. ct. of arches, 1612. Member, Doctors’ Commons, 1614. Chan. and vicar-gen. Bath and Wells dioc. 1616-aft. 1642; London dioc. 1624-aft. 1642.HMC Wells, ii. 370; M. Stieg, Laud’s Laboratory (1982), 181n; LMA, DL/C/22, f. 436; DL/C/342, f. 125. Master in chancery, extraordinary, 1617; in ordinary, 2 Aug. 1645–d. King’s adv. earl marshal’s ct. 1624–40.CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 145; Coventry Docquets, 183; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 273, 275; G.D. Squibb, The High Court of Chivalry (Oxford, 1959), 132, 234. Master of requests, 31 Aug. 1643-aft. 1646.PC Regs. xii. p. 215; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 365; Gouge, Funerall Sermon, titlepage.

Local: commr. piracy, Devon 1615; Dorset 1622; London, Mdx., Essex, Kent and Surr. 1623-aft. Mar. 1639;C181/2, ff. 242v; C181/3, ff. 73, 79v, 176; C181/4, ff. 37, 138v; C181/5, ff. 26v, 130v. assurance, London 1615;C181/2, f. 237. to report on disorders in king’s chapel in the Tower, 1632.Coventry Docquets, 37, 38. Visitor of hosps. Canterbury dioc. 1634.CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 530. Commr. printers’ licences, London 1637;CSP Dom. 1637, p. 345. visitation, Merton Coll. Oxf. 1638;CSP Dom. 1637–8, p. 341; W. Laud, Works ed. W. Scott, J. Bliss (Oxford, 1847–60), v. 546. charitable uses, 1638;C192/1, unfol. tendering oath of loyalty (roy.), Oxf. 12 Apr. 1645.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 268.

Religious: member, Canterbury Convocation, 1618.SP16/88/16.

Central: high commn. Canterbury prov. 1633.CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 327.

Parlimentarian

DUCK, Arthur (c.1580-1648), of Wells and Cadbury, Som. and Chiswick, Mdx.; later of Aldersgate Street, London.

: Som., Mdx., Chiswick and London., Aldersgate Street.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DUCKE, Dr Arthur (1580-1648), of Wells and North Cadbury, Som., Chiswick, Mdx. and Aldersgate Street, London.

Will

1 Apr. 1646, pr. 1 June 1649.PROB11/208/312.

Estates

owned land at North Cadbury, Som.; leased manor of Chiswick;T. Faulkner, Hist. and Antiquities of Brentford, Ealing and Chiswick (1845), 291-2. owned property in London in Blackfriars and later in Aldersgate Street;Strafforde Letters, i. 358. leased canon’s house, Wells Cathedral, 1629.HMC Wells, ii. 391.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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