Among the Carte Papers in the Bodleian are rough jottings by the Historian for a Memoir of our Sir John Davies, wherein it is stated that the family came originally from South Wales to Tisbury, Wiltshire. The words are: "His family had continued several generations in y^{e} place, though descended from a family of that name in South Wales: but planted heere in England Temp. Hen. 7: accompanying at that time y^{e} Earle of Pembrooke out of Wales.[2]

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