PRIDEAUX, Richard (1606-67), of Thuborough, Sutcombe, Devon, and Trecarne, St Mabyn, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. 1606, 1st s. of Jonathan Prideaux† of Thuborough and Winifred, da. and coh. of Tristram Gorges of St Budeaux, Devon.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 620. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 13 Dec. 1622.Al. Ox. m. 31 Dec. 1634, Mary, da. and coh. of Richard Barrett of Trecarne, St Mabyn, Cornw., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. July 1637. Kntd. c. 1645 ?; ?d. 1667.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 620.

Offices Held

Local: commr. oyer and terminer for piracy, Cornw. 11 Feb. 1641;C181/5, f. 188. sequestration (roy.) by Mar. 1643–?1646;Cornw. RO, B/BOD/285, unfol. oyer and terminer (roy.), 5 July 1643; excise (roy.), 17 May 1644; rebels’ estates (roy.), 21 Feb. 1645. 1643 – ?46Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 54, 209, 259. J.p. 4 Oct., by Oct. 1660–?d.; Devon Nov. 1643 – ?46, by Oct. 1660–?d.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 78, 103; C220/9/4, ff. 11v, 17. Sheriff, Cornw. ?1644–5.CCSP i. 275; Coate, Cornw. 191. Surveyor-gen. duchy of Cornw. Aug. 1660–d.CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 212; 1667–8, p. 267. Commr. assessment, Cornw. 1661; Devon 1661, 1664;SR. piracy, 3 Mar. 1662;C181/7, p. 139. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Parlimentarian

PRIDEAUX, Richard (1606-67), of Thuborough, Sutcombe, Devon, and Trecarne, St Mabyn, Cornw.

: Sutcombe, Devon and Trecarne, St Mabyn, Cornw.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PRIDEAUX, Richard (1606-67), of Thuborough, Sutcombe, Devon, and Trecarne, St Mabyn, Cornw.

Will

16 May 1660, pr. 22 Sept. 1668.Cal. Wills and Admins. Devon and Cornw. ed. E.A. Fry (1908), 144; Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 620.

Estates

manor of Thuborough, Devon, and Trecarne, Cornw.;PROB11/175/214; Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 620; CCC 1996. by May 1650 possessed 1 acre ‘upon which to build a blowing house’ (for working tin) at Killagorden, St Clement’s par. (part of duchy manor of Moresk).Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornw. i. 95.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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