[1] In October 1640, at the outset of the Long Parliament, he was elected to the House of Commons from Montgomeryshire.
On 12 October 1642, together with his fellow-member Richard Herbert he was disabled from sitting in parliament, on account of their having joined the king at Oxford in the initial stages of the English Civil War.
She died of smallpox and is mentioned on the elaborate mural monument to her father-in-law John I Davie (died 1710) in St Mary's Church, Buckland Brewer, as follows: Underneath lies the body of Juliana the wife of Joseph Davie of Orleigh, Esq., and daughter of sr. John Pryce of Newtown in ye County of Montgomery, Bar(on)et.
1720 in the 28th year of her age in the small pox to the unspeakable affliction of her husband children and relations and to ye great grieff of all that knew her.
In sad remembrance this small stone is erected to her memory by her unhappy but faithfull partner.Juliana's husband carried out much rebuilding work to Orleigh Court and the arms of Davie impaling Pryce (Gules, a lion rampant regardant or) survive on several elaborately decorated lead hopper-heads forming part of the roof guttering.