DUCK, Nicholas (1569-1628), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and Mount Radford, nr. Exeter, Devon

Family and Education

bap. 30 Nov. 1569,IGI (Devon). 2nd s. of Richard Duck (admon. 20 Apr. 1605) of Heavitree, Devon and his w. Joan; bro. of Arthur*. PROB 11/105, ff. 180-1v; IGI (Devon). educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1584; Al. Ox. New Inn; L. Inn 1589, called 1598. LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 56. m. 6 Oct. 1601, Grace, da. of Thomas Walker of Exeter, 1s. d. 28 Aug. 1628. Vis. Devon (Harl. Soc. vi), 98; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 309-10 (this pedigree is largely unreliable). sig. Nich[olas] Ducke.

Offices Held

Freeman, Exeter 1609, Exeter Freemen ed. M.M. Rowe and A.M. Jackson (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. extra ser. i), 114. commr. aid 1609, SP14/43/107. piracy, Devon 1611 – 14, 1619 – 20, 1624, C181/2, ff. 140, 201, 348; 181/3, ff. 2, 130. oyer and terminer, Exeter 1614–15; C181/2, ff. 206v, 223v. churchwarden, All Hallows, Exeter 1614; H. Reed, ‘Allhallows Church, Exeter’, Reps. and Trans. Devon Assoc. xxxv. 600. dep. lt., Exeter by 1625, commr. and collector, Privy Seal loans 1625–6. E401/2586, p. 250.

Bencher, L. Inn 1615 – d., Lent reader 1618, kpr. of Black Bk. 1624 – 25, treas. 1627–d.; LI Black Bks. ii. 169, 197, 253, 275, 277. recorder, Exeter 1617–d. Devon RO, ECA Act Bk. 7, pp. 259, 706.

Parlimentarian

DUCK, Nicholas (1569-1628), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and Mount Radford, nr. Exeter, Devon

Main residences: Lincoln's Inn, London; Mount Radford, nr. Exeter, Devon.

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Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

DUCK, Nicholas (1569-1628)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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