[1][2] On 9 April 1671 Davies took holy orders, and on 11 May that year he was admitted to the prebend of Kilnaglory, in the diocese of Cork.
In 1674 he exchanged his first preferment for the prebend of Iniskenny, in the same diocese; and he was instituted 10 February 1679 as Dean of Ross.
[1][3] Attainted by King James II, Davies departed with others in March 1689 from Ireland, the scene of the Williamite War, and sought employment in the ministry in England.
[1] His arrival at Belfast, his participation in the battle of the Boyne, and the siege of Limerick, are recorded in Davies's Journal, edited by Richard Caulfield, LL.D., of Cork, and printed for the Camden Society, 1857.
He wrote a detailed Account of the State of the Diocese of Cork in 1682, left in manuscript in the diocesan registry.
[1] Davies married in 1674 Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Robert Stannard, granddaughter of Sir Robert Travers (MP) and great granddaughter of Richard Boyle, Archbishop of Tuam; she died 28 February 1715.