Later Career
In 1617 Davies failed to win the position of English Solicitor General and consequently resigned as Attorney-General in Ireland. In 1619 he returned to England permanently, in the expectation that his chance of gaining office there would be improved by his presence. He practised as king's serjeant, and eventually went on circuit as a judge. He was a founder member of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1621, he was elected MP for Hindon, and occasionally spoke in parliament on Irish matters. Davies retired to Englefield House in Berkshire, but was then appointed lord chief justice of one of the superior courts in England. He had always been corpulent, and on 7 December 1626 he died in his bed of apoplexy brought on after a supper party, and thus never enjoyed the appointment he had been angling for throughout his career.
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