page_title: Edmund Prideaux (Roundhead)
hierarchical_section_title: Edmund Prideaux (Roundhead)
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Prideaux family of Devon &amp; Cornwall: Argent, a chevron sable in chief a label of three points gules (Vivian, Heraldic Visitations of Devon, 1895, p.616)
context_page_description: Edmund Prideaux of Forde Abbey, Thorncombe, Devon, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament, who supported the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War. He was briefly solicitor-general but chose to resign rather than participate in the regicide of King Charles I. Afterwards, he was attorney-general, a position he held until he died. During the Civil War and for most of the First Commonwealth he ran the postal service for Parliament.
context_section_description: Edmund Prideaux (died 1659) of Forde Abbey, Thorncombe, Devon, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament, who supported the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War. He was briefly solicitor-general but chose to resign rather than participate in the regicide of King Charles I. Afterwards, he was attorney-general, a position he held until he died. During the Civil War and for most of the First Commonwealth he ran the postal service for Parliament.
caption: Arms of Prideaux
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