EWENS, Matthew (c.1548-98), of the Middle Temple, London and Somerset.

Family and Education

b. c. 1548,C142/211/177; his e. bro. was c.1545. 3rd s. of John Ewens of Wincanton, Som. by Ancaret, da. of Alexander Dyer of Wincanton. educ. Clifford’s Inn; M. Temple 1568, called 1574. m. Frances, da. of Sir John Rogers of Bryanston, Dorset, wid. of John Willoughby of Silton, Dorset, and of John Hyett., s.p.Vis. Som. (Harl. Soc. xi), 36; PCC 32 Lewyn; Add. Vis. Dorset, ed. Colby and Rylands, 21.

Offices Held

Autumn reader, M. Temple 1591; serjeant-at-law 1594; baron of the Exchequer from 1594; 2nd justice at Lancaster 1594; steward of Blandford Forum and Wimborne, Dorset 1594;Somerville, Duchy, i. 475, 631. j.p. Som. from c. 1579, Dorset from c. 1592, other counties from c.1596.

Parlimentarian

EWENS, Matthew (c.1548-98), of the Middle Temple, London and Somerset.

Main residences: the Middle Temple, London; Somerset.

Author

P.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

EWENS, Matthew (c.1548-98)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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