Simon Snow (1600 – February 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil War
Snow was the son of Thomas Snow of Exeter and his wife Grace Vilvayne.Nonconformity in Exeter 1650-1875 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.The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
In April 1640, Snow was elected Member of Parliament for Exeter for the Short Parliament. He was re-elected in November 1640 MP for Exeter for the Long Parliament. In December 1648 Snow was named as one of the Commissioners for settling Militia throughout England and Wales for Exeter. December 1648: An Ordinance for the setling the Militia in the severall Counties, Cities and places within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Barwick upon Tweed., Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (1911), pp. 1233-1251. Date accessed: 27 October 2010 He was excluded from parliament under Pride's Purge in 1648.The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ..., Volume 9
In 1653 Snow was Mayor of Exeter.Eight Hundred Years of Exeter's Mayors and Lord Mayors He also benefited from the will of his uncle Robert Vilvayne who left various charitable foundations.House of Commons papers 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.The History of Exeter's Breweries In 1657 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.
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