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

Family and Education

b. c. 1580, 3rd s. of Richard Duck (d.1605) of Heavitree, Devon and his w. Joanna; bro. of Nicholas*. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 309; PROB 11/105, f. 180. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1595, BA 1599, MA Hart Hall 1602, BCL 1607, DCL 1612; Al. Ox. travelled abroad (France, Italy, Germany) 1612. Lansd. 713, ff. 2-3; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 330. m. by 1625 (with £1,400), Som. Wills ed. F. Brown. ii. 7.Margaret (d.1646), da. and coh. of Henry Southworth, merchant of Wells and London, at least 2da., at least 1s. d.v.p. 6 other ch. d.v.p. Vivian, 309; HMC Wells, ii. 387. d. 16 Dec. 1648. Musgrave’s Obit. (Harl. Soc. xlv), 220.

Offices Held

Fell., All Souls, Oxf. 1604, bursar 1608, subwarden 1610. B. Levack, Civil Lawyers in Eng. 1603–41, p. 225.

Adv. Ct. of Arches, 1612; LPL, Abbot reg. i. f. 112. member, Doctors’ Commons 1614 – at least42, treas. 1632–3; PRO 30/26/8, ff. 103, 152, 182. master in Chancery extraordinary 1617, ordinary 1645–d.; Levack, 225. king’s adv., Earl Marshal’s Ct. 1624–40; CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 145; Cal. of the Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv), 183. master of Requests 1643–6. PC2/53, p. 215.

Vicar-gen., Wells cathedral 1616; HMC Wells, ii. 370. chan., Bath and Wells dioc. 1616–40, M. Stieg, Laud’s Laboratory, 171. London dioc. 1628–41; Levack, 225; Stieg, 171; Works of Abp. Laud, i-ii. ed. W. Scott; ed. J. Bliss, v. 358. member, Canterbury convocation 1618; SP16/88/16. commr. piracy, London 1622–40, C181/3, f. 79v; 181/4, f. 139. Dorset 1622, C181/3, f. 73. Mdx. 1625; Ibid, f. 176. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1633–41; CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 327. visitor of hospitals, Canterbury dioc. 1634; CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 530. commr. charitable uses, London 1638. C192/1, unfol.

Commr. to report on disorders in the king’s chapel in the Tower 1632, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 37–8. printers’ licences 1637. Ibid. 1637, p. 345.

Parlimentarian

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

Main residences: Wells; Cadbury, Som.; Chiswick, Mdx.; Aldersgate Street, London.

Author

G.Y.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

DUCK, Arthur (c.1580-1648)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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