DAVIES, Matthew (1595-1678), of Shaftesbury, Dorset, Chicksgrave, Tisbury, Wilts. and the Middle Temple.

Family and Education

bap. 2 Apr. 1595,Wilts. RO, 812/5, f. 17. 1st s. of Edward Davies, tanner, of Chicksgrave, and Joan, da. of Robert Cave of Bagley, Dorset.The Gen. v. 27. educ. M. Temple, 4 Apr. 1614; called 23 May 1623.M. Temple Admiss. i. 102; MTR ii. 682. m. bef. 1627, Anne (bur. 9 Nov. 1657),Wilts. RO, 812/6, unfol.; Aubrey, Wilts. Top. Collections ed. Jackson, 363; The Gen. v. 27. da. of Edmund Mervyn, of Fonthill Gifford, Wilts.W.R. Drake, Fasciculus Mervinensis (1873), 29, 44; The Gen. v. 27. 1s. d.v.p. 3da. (1 d.v.p.); suc. fa. bef. 12 Feb. 1625.Hoare, Hist. Wilts. iii (Dunworth), 36; PROB11/145/240; Tisbury par. reg. bur. 13 Feb. 1676. d. betw. 31 July-26 Nov. 1678.PROB11/358/368; Tisbury par. reg.; Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 8.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Dorset 7 July 1640 – aft.11 May 1643, 1663–74.C231/5, p. 394; LJ vi. 42a, 48b; Dorset Hearth Tax, 116–17. Commr. oyer and terminer for piracy, 23 Feb. 1642;C181/5, f. 226v. poll tax, 1660; assessment, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677;SR. corporations, 1662;Dorset RO, DC/LR/D2/1, unfol.; Hutchins, Dorset, i. 22. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Central: commr. tendering oaths to muster masters (roy.), 13 Feb. 1644. Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 145–6.

Parlimentarian

DAVIES, Matthew (1595-1678), of Chicksgrove, Tisbury, Wilts.; Shaftesbury, Dorset and the Middle Temple, London

: Chicksgrave, Wilts., Tisbury, Dorset and the Middle Temple.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DAVIES, Matthew (1595-1678), of Shaftesbury, Dorset, Chicksgrave, Tisbury, Wilts. and the Middle Temple.

Will

7 June 1676, cod. 28 July 1677, pr. 26 Nov. 1678.PROB11/358/368.

Estates

income largely from professional practice as a lawyer, based in Shaftesbury and London.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 8; SP23/175, f. 69. Nonetheless, compounded at £300 in 1646.CCC 959; SP23/79, p. 702; SP23/175, p. 54-7.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

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