Matthew Dodsworth
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Matthew Dodsworth was, sometime before 1593, appointed as Judge
Judge
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 of the Admiralty Court in England
England
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's Northern Counties
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. and was later Registrar and Chancellor for Tobias Matthew
Tobias Matthew
Tobias Matthew was Archbishop of York.-Life:He was the son of Sir John Matthew of Ross in Herefordshire, England, and of his wife Eleanor Crofton of Ludlow. He was born at Bristol and was educated at Wells, Somerset, and then in succession at University College and Christ Church, Oxford...

, Archbishop of York
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. He was also the father of the noted Yorkshire antiquary, Roger Dodsworth
Roger Dodsworth
Roger Dodsworth was an English antiquary.-Life:He was born at Newton Grange, Oswaldkirk, near Helmsley, Yorkshire, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Ralph Sandwith...

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Matthew was the second son of Simon Dodsworth of Settrington
Settrington
Settrington is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It once had a railway station that lay on the Malton and Driffield Railway.-History:...

, East Riding of Yorkshire
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 by his spouse Agnes née Harrison.

He entered St John's College, Cambridge
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St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....

 and matriculated pensioner at Easter 1565. He gained his LL.B from Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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 in 1573.

He married September 15, 1578, in Oswaldkirk
Oswaldkirk
Oswaldkirk is a small village and civil parish near Helmsley in the district of Ryedale in North Yorkshire, England. It is named after the village church of St Oswald, King and Martyr, the Anglo-Saxon King of Northumbria who was slain by the pagan, Penda in 642...

, 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 Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York 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, North Yorkshire
Slingsby is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 6 miles west of Malton. According to the 2001 census had a population of 634....

when his Will was administered at York.
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