Simon Snow was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England

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  from 1640 to 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil War

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Snow was the son of Thomas Snow of Exeter

Exeter

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 and his wife Grace Vilvayne. He became a merchant of Exeter and was an alderman of the town. He was a puritan and benefited by acquiring building materials from the dismantled houses belonging to the cathedral clergy.

In April 1640, Snow was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Exeter

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 for the Short Parliament

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. He was re-elected in November 1640 MP for Exeter for the Long Parliament

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. In December 1648 Snow was named as one of the Commissioners for settling Militia throughout England and Wales for Exeter. He was excluded from parliament under Pride's Purge

Pride's Purge

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in 1648.

In 1653 Snow was Mayor of Exeter. He also benefited from the will of his uncle Robert Vilvayne who left various charitable foundations. Snow inherited a brewhouse and malthouse, called the Common Brewhouse, "lately erected near the Duckingstool Mills, in Exe Island" which he also devised for charitable purposes. In1657 Snow was one of a group of citizens who contributed to the building of a wall within the cathedral to separate presbyterian and independent worship.