Matthew Dodsworth (c.1544 – 1631) was, sometime before 1593, appointed as

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of the Admiralty Court in

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's Northern Counties and was later Registrar and Chancellor for Tobias Matthew,

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. He was also the father of the noted Yorkshire

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Roger Dodsworth Roger Dodsworth (1585–1654) was an English antiquary. Life He was born at Newton Grange, Oswaldkirk, near Helmsley, Yorkshire, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Ralph Sandwith. He devoted himself early to antiquarian research, in whic ...

. Matthew was the second son of Simon Dodsworth of

Settrington Settrington is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Malton. It was historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. History Sir Francis Bigod of Settringt ...

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(now in

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), by his spouse Agnes née Harrison. He entered

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and matriculated pensioner at Easter 1565. He gained his

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from

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in 1573. He married September 15, 1578, in

Oswaldkirk Oswaldkirk is a small village and civil parish south of Helmsley and north of York in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is named after the village church of St Oswald, King and Martyr, the Anglo-Saxon King of Northumbri ...

, Yorkshire, Eleanor, daughter of Ralph Sandwith, Esq., of Newton Grange, Oswaldkirk, by his spouse Mary née Segrave. They had a total of 15 children, baptised in Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire, St Michael le Belfry, York, and

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between October 1579 and August 1603. Roger Dodsworth, baptised April 24, 1585 in St Oswald, Oswaldkirk, was their fourth child and first son. Eleanor, wife of Matthew, was buried at Saxton-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, April 26, 1613. Matthew died before October 8, 1631, in

Slingsby, North Yorkshire Slingsby is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about west of Malton, North Yorkshire, Malton on the B1257 road. According to the 2001 Census had a population (including Fryton) of 634, incre ...

when his Will was administered at York.Yorkshire Archaeological Society, ''Index of Wills in the York Registry 1627 - 1636'', Record Series Vol XXXV, 1905, p 147

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