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Family and Education
b. 18 Dec. 1602, 1st s. of Paul D’Ewes of Welshall, Suff., clerk-in-chancery and 1st w. Sisillia, da. of Richard Simonds of Coxden, Chardstock, Dorset.Harl. 646, ff. 1, 13, 13v, 40v. educ. privately, Coxden (Richard White);Harl. 646, ff. 10v-11. Lavenham g.s.;Harl. 646, ff. 12-13. Wambroke, Dorset (Christopher Malaker) 1611-14;Harl. 646, f. 15v. St Mary Axe, London (Henry Reynolds), 1615-16; Bury St Edmunds. g.s. Suff. (John Dickenson), 1617-18;Harl. 646, ff. 28v-29. St John’s, Camb. 1618 (Richard Holdsworth).Harl. 646, f. 38. adm. M. Temple 1611, entered 1620, called 1623.D'Ewes, Autobiography ed. J.O. Halliwell (2 vols. 1845), i. 44; MTR ii. 538, 659, 682. m. (1) 24 Oct. 1626, Anne Clopton (d. 27 July 1641), da. of Sir William Clopton of Kentwell, Long Melford, Suff. 5s. (5 d.v.p.), 5 da. (3 d.v.p.); Harl. 646, ff. 45, 45v, 94v-95v. (2) 20 Sept. 1642, Elizabeth (d. 1655), da. of Sir Henry Willoughby 1st bt. of Risley, Derbys., 1s. 1da. (d.v.p.). Kntd. 6 Dec. 1626, cr. bt. 15 July 1641.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 191; CB ii. 103. suc. fa. 14 Mar. 1631.CB ii. 103. d. 18 Apr. 1650.Stowlangtoft par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: sheriff, Suff. 1639–40.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix.), 132. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR.; A. and O. oyer and terminer, 11 Apr. 1644;C181/5, f. 232. gaol delivery, Suff., Bury St Edmunds 11 Apr. 1644;C181/5, ff. 232v, 233. New Model ordinance, Suff. 17 Feb. 1645; sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646;C181/5, f. 269. militia, Suff. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations by 12 Dec. 1642, 16 Oct. 1644.Harl. 164, f. 247v; CJ iii. 666b. Commr. preservation of books, 20 Nov. 1643; abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646.A. and O.

Religious: presented George Speed to Stowlangtoft, April 1644;Harl. 483, f. 53. William Gurnall to Lavenham, Dec. 1644.Harl. 483, f. 153v. Elder, tenth Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 428.

Court: kpr. king’s medals and coins, 19 Oct. 1648.Harl. 6988, f. 216.

Parlimentarian
D’EWES, Sir Simonds (1602-50), of Stowlangtoft and Lavenham, Suff.
: Suff.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

D’EWES, Sir Simonds (1602-50), of Stowlangtoft and Lavenham, Suff.

Will
19 Sept. 1639, superseded by another 19 June 1645, pr. 28 June 1650.Autobiography, ii. 148-58; PROB11/212, f. 292v.
Estates
in 1631, his Dorset estate at Chardstock produced more than £800 in fines and rents.Autobiography, ii. 7. At death, left manor and advowson of Stowlangtoft; manor of Lavenham.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
rented house in Russell St, Covent Garden, Westminster by Sept. 1642.S. McGee, An Industrious Mind: The Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (Stanford, California, 2015), 306.
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