Giving and lending money, Dashwood enabled Prideaux to pay off the accusation.

[1][6] He was elected three times as Member of Parliament for Banbury from 1689; and for Oxfordshire in November 1699, losing his seat in 1700.

[7] On 9 June 1683 Dashwood married Penelope, daughter of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 2nd Baronet.

[1] Their eldest son surviving to adulthood was Robert, who married Dorothea Read(e).

[9] Their daughter Penelope married Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament for Berkshire.