Long Parliament
Prideaux was returned to the Long Parliament for Lyme Regis (which seat he held till his death), and forthwith took sides against King Charles I. His subscription for the defence of parliament, in 1642, was £100. By his own side he was regarded as one of the persons best informed as to the state of feeling in the west of England.
For three years, from 10 November 1643 until it was transferred to the custody of the speakers of the two houses, Prideaux was one of the commissioners in charge of the Great Seal of Parliament, an office worth £1,500 a year, and, as a mark of respect, was, by order of the House of Commons, called within the bar with precedence next after the solicitor-general. Prideaux had also been one of the Parliamentary commissioners appointed to negotiate with the king's commissioners at Uxbridge in January 1645.
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