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b. c. 1606, 1st s. of James Dewy of Bloxworth;Hutchins, Dorset, i. 182; Regs. of Almer ed. E.A. Fry (1907), 9. m. (1) 22 Jan. 1633, Mary, da. of Thomas Strangways of Winterborne Muston (d. 1638), (2) aft. 9 Oct. 1653, ?;Dorset RO, Winterborne Kingston par. regs.; Hutchins, Dorset, i. 132, 149, 182. at least 2s. d. 28 Feb. 1676.Hutchins, Dorset, i. 182.
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soldier (parlian.), tp. of Sir Walter Erle*, Sept. 1642-July 1643.SP28/128/30. Capt. of horse, regt. of John Brune, June 1644-Jan. 1645.Dorset Standing Cttee. ed. Mayo, 240–1. Capt. of horse, Dorset Jan. 1645-Dec. 1648.Bodl. Gough Dorset 14, ff. 21v, 22, 30v, 51v-56v. Capt. militia horse, Dorset 8 Mar. 1650-aft. 13 Sept. 1659.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505; 1659–60, pp. 38, 194; SP25/77, pp. 868, 891; CJ vii. 772a.

collector, assessment, Shaftesbury division 1647–8.E113/13, unfol. Commr. tendering Engagement, Blandford division 1649;Bayley, Dorset, 359. assessment, Dorset 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653), 275 (E.1062.28). sequestration, Jan. 1650-Mar. 1655;CCC 171; Dorset Standing Committee ed. Mayo, pp. xxii-xxiv; E113/13, unfol. militia, c. 1650, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659;R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), 169; SP25/76A, f. 14; A. and O. piracy, 22 May 1654;C181/6, p. 33. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. J.p. c.Mar. 1655-Mar. 1660.Som. and Dorset N. and Q ii. 20; C193/13/5. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 27 Mar. 1655;C181/6, p. 98. securing peace of commonwealth, Dorset c.Dec. 1655;TSP iv. 305. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35).

commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
DEWY, James I (c.1606-76), of Bloxworth and Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.
of Bloxworth and Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.
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Commons 1640-1660
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DEWY, James I (c.1606-76), of Bloxworth and Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.

Will
24 Jan. 1674, pr. 8 Apr. 1676.PROB11/350/513.
Estates
lands in Spetisbury and Tarrant Crawford, 1641;E179/105/335, m. 5. rented Keynston farm, year from Sept. 1647, valued at £300 p.a.;Add. 8845, f. 2. owned 5-hearth house at Okeford Fitzpaine by 1662;Dorset Hearth Tax, 59. by d. held lands in Kington Magna and quarter share of impropriated rectory of Tarrant Monkton.PROB11/350/513.
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