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Family and Education
s. of John Hewson of London and Elizabeth.C2/ChasI/H7/35; PROB11/187/183. m. Anne, at least 4da.J. Rogers, Ohel or Beth-shemesh (1653), 412 (E.717). educ. appr. to Thomas Stubbes, Cordwainer, c. 1618;GL, MS 7351/1, unfol. MA (hon.), Oxf. Univ. 19 May 1649;S.R. Gardiner, Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 54. Kntd. bef. Dec. 1657.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 224. cr. Lord Hewson, Dec. 1657.TSP vi. 668. d. c.Sept. 1661.CCSP v. 138.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Cordwainers’ Co. 1625–6.GL, MS 7351/1, unfol.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian) regt. of 3rd earl of Essex, 23 Nov. 1642 – 26 Mar. 1644; lt.-col. regt. of John Pickering, 26 Mar. 1644-c.June 1646;SP28/253A, f. 70. col. of ft. c.June 1646-July 1659.M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i.59; ii. 240. Gov. Dublin late 1649–1659? Col. of ft. New English regt. Sept. 1656-Jan. 1660.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 405–15; CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 94; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 88, 104, 119.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 14 July 1653.CJ vii. 284b. Member, cttee. of safety, 26 Oct. 1659.Whitelocke, Mems. iv. 366.

Irish: commr. revenue, Dublin precinct Aug. 1650 – Dec. 1652; Dublin 15 Feb. 1653.SP28/70, f. 321; SP28/89, ff. 73–9; Eg. 1762, f. 65. J.p. Leinster 4 Nov. 1651–?TCD, MS 844, f. 110. Asst. to parliamentary commrs. 24 Mar. 1652.Eg. 1762, f. 202v. Commr. high ct. of justice, Dublin 30 Dec. 1652.TCD, MS 844, f. 136. High sheriff, Leinster by Jan. 1653.Eg. 1762, f. 60. Commr. tillage, 4 Jan. 1653.Eg. 1762, f. 58v. Agent to draw soldiers’ lots, Feb. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 404. Commr. ct. of articles, 7 Oct. 1654;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 451. assessment, city of Dublin, cos. Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). Member, cttee. of transplantation, 26 Oct. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 454. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Local: j.p. Mdx., Westminster 6 Nov. 1656–?Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 351; C193/13/5, ff. 66, 135v. Surr. by Mar. 1657–?Mar. 1660.C193/13/5, f. 102; C193/13/6, ff. 85, 86v. Commr. assessment, Kent, Surr. 9 June 1657;A. and O. sewers, Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657, 1 Sept. 1659;C181/6, pp. 263, 387. oyer and terminer, Surr. 21 Mar. 1659.C181/6, p. 348.

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Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HEWSON, John (d.1661), of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin.

Will
attainted, 1660.
Estates
granted townland of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin, 22 Mar. 1652 (confirmed 18 July 1654);Eg. 1762, f. 206. held lands at Donsoghly, Hollywood Rath, Kilmacmonan and Blanchardstown, co. Dublin, by mid-1650s;HMC Egmont, i. 548, 550; CSP Ire. 1660-2, p. 282; 1663-5, pp. 482-3; 1666-9, p. 497. purchased lands in Kent, inc. 113 acres at St Margaret’s at the Cliff, Isle of Sheppey, June 1655.C54/3853/30. All estates forfeited, 1660.
Oxford 1644
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