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 APPENDIX G 6ii Judges app. tor the King's trial, 6 Jan. 1648/9, but declined to act. Councillor of State 13 Feb. 1649/50 to 20 Apr. 1653; President of the Council Jan. to Feb. 165 1/2; again appointed, by the "Restored Rump," 13 May to 25 Oct. 1659. He was sum. to the "Other Holsf," 10 Dec. 1657, but refused to take his seat, preferring to remain in the House ot Commons. C) He added considerably to his estate by the purchase of Church lands, especially in the Bishopric of Durham.C") At the Restoration he was excepted from the Act of Indemnity, 29 Aug. 1660, and im- prisoned in the Tower. He m., istly, in or before 1625, Frances, da. of Thomas Elmes, of Lilford, Northants, by Christian, da. and h. of William Hicklint,, of Greens Norton, Northants. She d. 1632, and was bur. at Noseley. M.I. He m., 2ndly, Dorothy, sister of Robert, 2nd Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, da. of Fulke Greville, of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln, by Margaret, da. of Christopher Copley, of Wadsworth, co. York. She ^.28 Jan. 1 650/1, and was bur. at Noseley. M.l. He d., a prisoner in the Tower of London, 7 Jan. i66o/i,(') and was bur. with his two wives in the chancel of Noseley Church. M.I. HEWSON [58] John HewsoNjC*) Regicide, usually described as being "of mean parentage, and brought up to the trade of a shoemaker," (') but more probably a cadet " of the family of Huson, seated at Tenterden in Kent, in (») "A knight of the old stamp, a gentleman of a very large estate and revenue; he was, by the protector, cut out for a lord of the other house. . . but he missed his way, and. . . went into the parliament-house among his fellow Englishmen, and there spake freely, bearing a good witness in behalf of the good old cause, the rights and liberties of the people of England." {Second Narrative of the late ParUament). See also ante, p. 592, note "a." C") " He got three great Manors of the Bishops, Auckland, Everwood, and another, for an inconsiderable Matter ... He hath a rich Fleece, reported to the Value of 20,000/. per Annum; but it is hoped he will, e'er long, be sheared." [Pari. Hist., vol. xxii, p. 187). {"=) He died " from a fever," or, according to Heath, " with impatience at the happiness of the times." Permission was given for his remains " to be honourably conveyed to Noseley with great funeral pompe, and interred among his ancestors in the collegiate church belonging to his family." (Nichols' Leicestershire, vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 748). C^) He bore for arms: Quarterly Gules and Ermine, over all an eagle displayed Gold, with a lion passant Silver in the first quarter. These arms were granted, or confirmed, to "Col. John Hewson, Gov' of the City of Dublin," by Richard Carney, Principal Herald of Ireland, 29 Apr. 1651. {Ex inform. G. D. Burtchaell). They are identical with those borne by Huson of Tenterden, with the addition of the lion in the first quarter, but the crest was undoubtedly a fresh grant. (') " Colonel Hewson, then Sir John, now Lord Hewson, some time an honest shoe-maker or cobler in London, went out a captain upon the account of the cause, was very zealous, fought on stoutly, and did good service, both in England and Ireland. The world being so well amended with him, and the sole so well stitched to the upper leather, he mav well be counted fit to be taken out of the house to be a