DAVIES, Sir John (1569-1626), of Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street and Charing Cross, Westminster; later of Englefield, Berks.

Family and Education

bap. 16 Apr. 1569,Works in Verse and Prose ... of Sir John Davies ed. A.B. Grosart, ii. p. xxiv. 3rd s. of Edward Davies (d.1580) of Chisgrove, Tisbury, Wilts., tanner, and Mary, da. of John Bennett of Pitt House, Wilts. H.S. Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and Conquest of Ireland, 15. educ. Winchester Coll. 1580; T.F. Kirby, Winchester Scholars, 149. Queen’s, Oxf. 1585; New Inn 1587; M. Temple 1588, called 1595; Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss.; MTR, 354. travelled abroad (Neths.) 1592. Poems of Sir John Davies ed. R. Krueger, xxviii-xxix. m. bef. 3 Mar. 1609, Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 288. (with £6,000), Eleanor (d. 5 July 1652), da. of George Tuchet, 11th Bar. Audley and subsequently 1st earl of Castlehaven, 2s. d.v.p. 1 da. E.S. Cope, Handmaid of the Holy Spirit, 8, 17, 21, 162; Bodl. Carte 62, f. 590v. Kntd. 18 Dec. 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 129. d. 7 Dec. 1626. C142/437/105. sig. Jo[hn] Davys.

Offices Held

Member, Soc. Antiqs. c.1600–3. Poems of Sir John Davies, xli-xlii.

Member, embassy to Scotland 1594; Bodl. Carte 62, f. 590; Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives comp. G.M. Bell, 249. sol.-gen. [I] 1603 – 06; att.-gen. [I] 1606–19; CPR Ire. Jas. I, 5, 93, 449. commr. Ct. of Wards [I] 1609–16; Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae ed. R. Lascelles, ii. 177. sjt.-at-law 1609; king’s sjt. 1612 – 23, 1st or ancient king’s sjt. 1623–d.; Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 179, 509; List of Eng. Law Officers comp. J.C. Sainty (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. vii), 17, 23. assize judge, Home circ. winter 1613, winter 1625, summer 1626, Northern circ. winter 1620, winter 1624, Oxf. circ. summer 1620. J.S. Cockburn, Hist. of Eng. Assizes, 269–71.

Commr. for dividing co. Cork into two counties 1606, CSP Ire. 1603–1606, p. 517. Ulster plantation by 1608-c.1610; CSP Carew, 1603–24, pp. 13–22, 61–3. j.p. Yorks. 1620, Mdx. 1620 – d., Westminster 1620 – d., Berks. 1623–d. C231/4, ff. 99, 115, 156; E163/18/12, ff. 4, 51, 105.

Member, Virg. Co. 1609. A. Brown, Genesis of US, 212.

MP [I] 1613 – 15; Speaker of the House of Commons [I] 1613–15. CSP Ire. 1611–14, p. 347.

Parlimentarian

DAVIES, Sir John (1569-1626), of Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street and Charing Cross, Westminster; later of Englefield, Berks.

Main residences: Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street; Charing Cross, Westminster; Englefield, Berks.

Author

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

DAVIES, Sir John (1569-1626)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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