Private Practice and Death
The loss of the office of postmaster and the carrying of letters affected Prideaux little; his legal practice continued to be large and lucrative, being worth £5,000 a year. He bought Ford Abbey, at Thornecombe, Devonshire, (now Dorset) and built a large house there. On 31 May 1658 he was made a baronet for "his voluntary offer for the mainteyning of thirty foot-souldiers in his highnes army in Ireland".
Prideaux died, leaving a great fortune, on 19 August 1659. John Andrew Hamilton stated in the DNB biography on Prideaux that "He appears to have been a sound chancery lawyer and highly esteemed by his party as a man of religion as well as learning".
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