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

Family and Education

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.

Offices Held

Military: 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.

Local: 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).

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

: of Bloxworth and Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

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.

Oxford 1644

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