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Family and Education
1st s. of James Dewy of Christchurch and Milford, Hants, and Elizabeth, da. of Christopher Krywill of Dorset.Hants RO, 1M53/1350. educ. Winchester, 1646, age 11; Hart HallT. F. Kirby, Winchester Scholars (1888), 182. and Exeter Coll. Oxf. 20 Nov. 1651;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 2 Dec. 1652.MTR iii. 1042-3. m. 25 Dec. 1656, Elizabeth Frost, ‘wid.’ (d. aft. 13 Nov. 1679), at least 1s. (d.v.p.) 2 da. (d.v.p.)Reg. St Margaret, Westminster (Harl. Soc. Reg. ser. lxiv. 83; lxxxix. 22); Temple Church Reg. (Harl. Soc. Reg. ser. n.s. i), 4; Hants RO, 1M53/492. suc. fa. aft. 3 June 1674.Add. Ch. 6205. d. aft. 31 July 1706.Cal. Treasury Pprs. 1702–1707, 452.
Offices Held

Household: sec. to John Lisle* bef. 22 Nov. 1652.CSP Dom. 1651–2, p. 539. ‘Servant’ to Bulstrode Whitelocke* by 16 Mar. 1655-aft. 8 Mar. 1657.Whitelocke, Diary, 402–3, 459.

Legal: called, M. Temple 16 May 1656.MTR iii. 1094. Clerk to commrs. of oyer and terminer, Salisbury and Exeter Mar. 1655;Whitelocke, Diary, 402–3. to commrs. gt. seal bef. 11 May 1658.CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 19.

Central: ?clerk of privy purse for seizures in customs by 28 May 1666-aft. 20 Dec. 1683.CSP Dom. 1666, pp. 4, 416; CTB iv. 459–60; vi. 12, 534; vii. 996. Agent for taxes, 27 Apr. 1695-aft. 12 July 1705.CTB x. 1313; xiv. 176, 397; xviii. 455; xx. 342. ?Manager, duties on houses and on marriages, 24 June 1697.CTB xii. 221. ?Commr. land bank, 14 Feb. 1699.CJ xii. 509a.

Local: commr. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 28 Jan. 1673.C181/7, p. 633. J.p. Westminster, Mdx. Apr. 1673-aft. Jan. 1703 (?aft. 31 July 1706); Hants Oct. 1689.C231/7, p. 446; C231/8, p. 241; Mdx. Co. Recs. iv; Hants RO, 1M53/1373; Cal. Treasury Pprs 1702–7, 452.

Parlimentarian
DEWY, James II (c.1635-aft. 1705), of the Middle Temple, London.
: of the Middle Temple, London.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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DEWY, James II (c.1635-aft. 1705), of the Middle Temple, London.

Will
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Estates
salary £50 p.a. as clerk to commrs. great seal, 1658;CSP Dom. 1658-9, p. 19. tenement and coppices in Ripley and Sopley, Hants bought 20 Jan. 1665;Hants RO, 1M53/1172. Holdenhurst wood in Christchurch Twynham, bought from Henry Hastings; site of dissolved priory of Christchurch Twynham, Watergrist Mill and other lands bought from Sir Thomas Tipping; other lands in parish bought from George Stewart and Robert Reekes, bef. 3 June 1674;Add. Ch. 6205. Holdenhurst farm, near Christchurch, bef. Nov. 1677; lease of house in Suffolk Street, Westminster, £50 p.a. by 1684;Hants RO, 1M53/1266, 1373. salary £200 p.a. as agent for taxes, from 27 Apr. 1695; additional £100 p.a. 22 June 1697;CTB x. 1370; xii. 50. salary £100 p.a. as manager of duties, from 24 June 1697.CTB xii. 221.
Oxford 1644
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