D'EWES, dfiz. Sir SIMONDS (1602-50). An industrious English chronicler and antiquarian. He was the son of Paul D'Ewes, of Alihien. Suf folk, one of the six clerks of chancery, and was born at Coxden, Dorsetshire. on December 18. 1602. His preparatory education was gained under several private teachers. Through Henry Reynolds, of Saint Mary Axe Parish, London. he became strongly indoctrinated with the Puri tan theology, and to John Dickinson. upper mas ter of Bury school, he owed his first enthusiasm for scholarly research. In 1618 he entered Saint John's College, Cambridge; but two years later. before taking a degree, he was removed by his father to the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1623. Ile abandoned the law three years later. partly in eonsequenee of his mar riage with the rich heiress of Sir William Clop ton, of Lntons Ifall, Suffolk. In the same year lie was knighted. He now Regan to devote him self zealously to those antiquarian studies which be never abandoned, although he represented Sudbury in the Long Parliament and was one of the members expelled at l'ride's Purge in 164S.
lie wrote and collected a vast number of manu scripts, and made many transcripts from mo nastic and other records. and these now form a part of the Ilarleian Collection preserved in the British :Museum. His greatest work is the Journal of .Ill the Parliaments of the Rcign of Queen Elivtbeth, finished in 1629, but first edit ed and published by his nephew. Paul Bower ( London, 1682). This work was incorporated by Cobbett in Ids Partial/on/au History. Con sult: dessopp, in die Dictionary of .\ational ogruphy, xiv. (London, ItitiS), and llalliwell Phillipps's edition of the Autobiography and Cor respondence of Sir Simonds IlEtres During the Reign of Joints Land Charles I. ( London, 1815).