Sir Francis Dodington Knight
- Christened: 19 Feb 1603, Dodington
- Married: 24 Nov 1627, St Mary Milk, London
General Notes:
Sir Francis Dodington, who was Sheriff of Somerset, ventured his all on the side of King Charles in the civil war. There are many stories about him. Some Parliament soldiers surrendered on promise of quarter. But he hanged them at Frome and he was known as (a) man of no honour. He is also reported as meeting a minister of religion in Shervage Wood. Sir Francis stopped him and demanded if he was for
King or Parliament?' The reply was For God and the Gospel', and Sir Francis shot him on the spot. No doubt apocryphal but evidently he was a man of some character.
He fled to France and sold knives and buckles to eke out a living. He did, however, manage to captivate a rich French widow and, at the restoration, he returned to England and though his estates had been greatly wasted yet he could never be prevailed upon to ask everything of the Crown, having engaged himself as he always declared on a mere matter of conscience'.
Events:
1. college; 17 Jun 1621; Wadham College, Oxford.
2. father's will; 1612.
3. mother's will; 1647.
4. Burke's Landed Gentry. second edition, page 177, supplement: says that he married Dorcas, daughter of Sir Bryan I'Anson, Knight
Marriage Information:
Francis married Alice Sydenham, daughter of William Hoby and Unknown, on 24 Nov 1627 in St Mary Milk, London.
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