Paul Bowes (bapt. Great Bromley, Essex, 24 Jan 1627; died 1702), was an English lawyer, known as the editor of the ''Journals'' of
Simonds d'Ewes.
Life
Bowes was the second son of Sir Thomas Bowes, knight, of
Great Bromley
Great Bromley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It lies south of Manningtree and east of Colchester and includes the hamlets of Balls Green, Hare Green and Bromley Cross. The A120 trunk road (with the ...
, Essex, the witch-hunter, and Mary, third daughter of Paul D'Ewes, one of the
six clerks in chancery
The Six Clerks' Office was a public legal office that served the equitable jurisdiction of the English Court of Chancery in London, England, until the mid-19th century.
The Office
The Office was in Chancery Lane, near the Holborn end. The business ...
and his first wife Cecelia Simonds. He was born at Great Bromley, and after being educated in the school at
Moulton St Mary
Moulton St Mary is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Beighton, in the Broadland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is about 2 miles south of Acle. The village has a garden centre and a car garage. In 1931 the p ...
, Norfolk, was admitted a pensioner of
St. John's College, Cambridge, 21 December 1650. He took no degree.
Having decided on the law for his future profession, Bowes on 12 May 1654 entered the
Middle Temple.
Called to the bar
The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...
by there 10 May 1661, he became a bencher on 24 October 1679.
Bowes was elected a
fellow of the Royal Society on 30 November 1699 (although, according to the Royal Society, that honour was reserved for his son Martin). Dying in June 1702, he was buried on 3 July at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, Fleet Street.
Works
Bowed edited the manuscript work of his celebrated uncle, Sir Simonds D'Ewes, entitled ''The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, both of the House of Lords and House of Commons'', folio, London, 1682. Other editions appeared in 1693 and 1708.
Family
By his wife Bridget, daughter of Thomas Sturges of the Middle Temple, he left three sons and two daughters. His will, dated 5 Aug. 1699 (with two
codicil
Codicil may refer to:
* Codicil (will), subsequent change or modification of terms made and appended to an existing trust or will and testament
* A modification of terms made and appended to an existing constitution, treaty, or standard form c ...
s dated 17 April and 12 Aug. 1701), was proved by his widow and sole executrix, on 16 July 1702. Besides property in Lincolnshire, Suffolk, and Essex, he was possessed, in 1700, of the manor of Rushton, Stokeford, and Binnegar in East Stoke, Dorsetshire.
Mrs. Bowes died in 1706. The eldest son, Martin, born in London, was also a pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on 16 April 1686, at the age of sixteen, but left without taking a degree. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward Thurland of Reigate, Surrey, and afterwards settled at Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where he died in 1726. His second daughter, Ann, became, in 1732, the wife of Philip Broke of Nacton.
References
;Attribution
Royal Society Archives - Martin Bowes
External links
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Year of birth missing
1703 deaths
People from Tendring (district)
English magazine editors
Fellows of the Royal Society
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
English male non-fiction writers