By J. Sears McGee
ISBN-10: 0804785465
ISBN-13: 9780804785464
D'Ewes left the main wide archive of non-public papers of anyone in early sleek Europe. His existence and proposal earlier than the lengthy Parliament are rigorously analyzed, in order that the brain of 1 of the Parliamentarian competitors of King Charles I's regulations may be understood extra totally than that of the other Member of Parliament. even though conservative in social and political phrases, D'Ewes's Puritanism avoided him from becoming a member of his Royalist more youthful brother Richard in the course of the civil struggle that started in 1642. D'Ewes gathered one of many biggest deepest libraries of books and manuscripts in England in his period and used them to pursue ancient and antiquarian examine. He information of nationwide and foreign occasions voraciously and conveyed his reviews of them to his acquaintances in lots of countless numbers of letters. McGee's biography is the 1st thorough exploration of the existence and ideas of this remarkable observer, providing clean perception into this pivotal time in ecu history.
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I here introduce five subsections, each treating an important aspect of his activities: legal study, historical/antiquarian research, news and politics, spirituality, and private life. D’Ewes was called to the bar in 1623 and appeared headed for a legal career. He followed the course of the parliaments of the 1620s with intense interest. Historians who have relied only on his autobiography will be surprised to learn that a diary he kept from 1622 to 1624 and letters written during the final years of James I’s reign show him to have been a severe critic of James and an admirer of Prince Charles.
Sissilia Simonds and Paul D’Ewes had married late in 1594, just two weeks after her fourteenth birthday, and Simonds believed that “her partaking somewhat too soon of the rites of marriage” made it unlikely that she would ever bear children. J. O. 4 Simonds’s arrival two years later was understandably a cause of great rejoicing. Yet the happiness that his birth created for his family was not unalloyed. ” The only midwife available was a woman “whose necke was distorted” on one side, and her appearance so distressed Sissilia that she would have sought the help of another if time had permitted.
Since she was “an exemplarie patterne of pietie and virtue,” his father understood that she was joking. 3 And so it came to pass, at least for much of his youth. Sissilia Simonds and Paul D’Ewes had married late in 1594, just two weeks after her fourteenth birthday, and Simonds believed that “her partaking somewhat too soon of the rites of marriage” made it unlikely that she would ever bear children. J. O. 4 Simonds’s arrival two years later was understandably a cause of great rejoicing. Yet the happiness that his birth created for his family was not unalloyed.
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