The d'Ewes Baronetcy, of Stowlangtoft Hall in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the
Baronetage of England
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To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary ...
. It was created on 15 July 1641 for the antiquary and politician
Sir Simonds d'Ewes
Sir Simonds d'Ewes, 1st Baronet (18 December 1602 – 18 April 1650) was an English antiquary and politician. He was bred for the bar, was a member of the Long Parliament and left notes on its transactions. D'Ewes took the Puritan side in the Civ ...
. He was the son of Paul d'Ewes (d.1624), whose mural monument with a kneeling effigy survives in Stowlangtoft Church, one of the six
Clerks in Chancery
The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid a slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law. The Chancery had jurisdiction over all matters of eq ...
. The title became extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet in 1731.
Origins
Paul d'Ewes was the great-grandson of Gerard des Ewes, lord of
Kessell, then in the
Duchy of Gelderland
The Duchy of Guelders (; ; ) is a historical duchy, previously county, of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries.
Geography
The duchy was named after the town of Geldern (''Gelder'') in present-day Germany. Though the present pr ...
. His son, Adrian d'Ewes, (d.1551) was the first to settle in England. Adrian's son Gerard d'Ewes, father of Paul, was lord of the manor of
Gaynes in Essex. Paul D'Ewes was one of the six Clerks in Chancery and in 1612 purchased from Sir Robert Ashfield the manor of "Stow-Langetot" (
Stowlangtoft
Stowlangtoft is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England south-east from Ixworth. Located around north-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 270.
Name
The village, originally just Stow ...
) in Suffolk. He married Cecilia Simonds, sole daughter and heiress of Richard Simonds of "Croxden, Dorset", by whom he had a son and heir Sir Simonds d'Ewes, 1st Baronet (1602–1650), as well as six daughters, including Mary, who married the witch hunter Sir Thomas Bowes.
[Sir Richard Gipps ''On the Ancient Families of Suffolk'', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology and Natural History, 1874, p. 15]
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d'Ewes baronets, of Stowlangtoft Hall (1641)
*Sir Simonds d'Ewes, 1st Baronet
Sir Simonds d'Ewes, 1st Baronet (18 December 1602 – 18 April 1650) was an English antiquary and politician. He was bred for the bar, was a member of the Long Parliament and left notes on its transactions. D'Ewes took the Puritan side in the Civ ...
(1602–1650)
References
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Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England