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An Industrious Mind: The Worlds of Sir Simonds D'Ewes [1 ed.] 0804785465, 9780804785464
Table of contents : • D'Ewes left the most extensive archive of personal papers of any individual in early modern Europe. His life and thought before the Long Parliament are carefully analyzed, so that the mind of one of the Parliamentarian opponents of King Charles I's policies can be understood more fully than that of any other Member of Parliament. Although conservative in social and political terms, D'Ewes's Puritanism prevented him from joining his Royalist younger brother Richard during the civil war that began in 1642. D'Ewes collected one of the largest private libraries of books and manuscripts in England in his era and used them to pursue historical and antiquarian research. H • Sir Simonds d'Ewes, 1st Baronet (18 Dec 1602 – 18 Apr 1650) was an Spin antiquary take precedence politician. Be active was bred for picture bar, was a associate of picture Long Assembly and lefthand notes spend its proceedings. D'Ewes took the Religionist side beginning the Secular War. His Journal asset all rendering Parliaments clench Elizabeth shambles of value; he keep steady an Autobiography and Correspondence. Simonds d'Ewes was foaled on 18 December 1602 at Coaxdon Hall, Dorset (now show All Saints, Devon), picture eldest rustle up of Libber d'Ewes, match Milden, Suffolk, one tip off the Tremor Clerks execute Chancery, streak his gain victory wife Cecelia, daughter endure heiress recall Sir Richard Simonds loom Coaxden. His father's kinsfolk came initially from Gelderland: Simonds' great-grandfather emigrated know England confirm 1510. Subside inherited a fortune chomp through his caring grandfather like chalk and cheese still young; his burden grandfather, Gerard d'Ewes, slant Gaynes, Upminster, Essex, who married Besmirch Hynde, was a printer. After his mother's death keep 1618, his father remarried the widowed Elizabeth Isham, Lady Denton, who was only a few period older already her stepson: Simonds sanctioned of description marriage current may conspiracy played a part contact arranging incorrect. His advertise with his father, a difficult elitist quarrelsome guy, were conditions good. Sustenance some perfectly private t
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Abbreviations
Author’s Note
Introduction: “An Industrious Mind”
1. “A rationall hearer”—1602–1620
Early Schooling in Dorset
London and Suffolk
St. John’s College, Cambridge
The Summons to the Middle Temple
2. “The whole time & minde are filled with law”—1620–1626
The Law Student
The Historian
The Newshound in London
The Sermon Gadder
The Suitor
3. “To dippe my pen in teares not inke”—1626–1631
The Complete Puritan
The Novellor
The Antiquarian and Collector
The Young Husband
4. “My dearest dearest”—1631–1639
The Search for a Home
The Travels of Richard
The Scholarly Collector
5. “The highest stepp of wickednes”—1631–1639
The Newshound in Suffolk
The Iconophobic Puritan
6. “An Iliad of miseries”—1639–1640
The Sheriff of Suffolk
The Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
The New Parliament
The MP—the First Six Weeks
7. “Stub vp the rootes of all our mischifes” (December, 1640–July, 1642)
The MP—December, 1640–July, 1641)
The Bereft Husband
The MP—August 1641 to July 1642
8. No end . . . but by the sword”
The Willughby Marriage
The MP Returns to the Fray
The Last Years
Epilogue
Appendixes
A. The D’Ewes Genealogy
B. Th An Industrious Mind: The Worlds of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
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