[3] Pentecost Dodderidge was the brother and heir of Sir John I Doddridge (1555–1628), a Justice of the King's Bench, who had purchased for his seat the estate of Bremridge, near South Molton, Devon.

[4] Subsequently, he became Recorder of Barnstaple, a position of significant honour, having left pieces of plate to the corporation of Bristol.

He became a bencher of his Inn in 1658 and published The Opinions of Sundry Antiquaries ... Touching the Antiquity, Power, Order, State, Manner, Persons and Proceedings of the High-Court of Parliament in England.

A special building was erected to house the books at the north-east corner of the chancel of St Peter's Church, Barnstaple.

[10] As his only son predeceased him, his heirs were his two sisters, one of whom was Dorcas Doddridge, the wife of John Lovering (died 1675) "The Elder", of Weare Giffard, a merchant based at Barnstaple[12] who served as one of his executors.

[14] John Dodderidge's will, dated 20 January 1658 and proved 20 June 1659, may be summarised thus:[15] A monument exists in Cheshunt Church, Hertfordshire, inscribed as follows: "To the memory of Martha Doddridge, wife of John Doddridge, of Branbridge, in the county of Devon, Esq., youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Dacres, of Hertford, Knt., who died in 1655.