Mews, Peter (1619-1672)

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Foster: . Ellis, of Purse Candle, Dorset, pleb. St. John's Coll., matric. 30 June, 1637, aged 18; fellow (and Wood says ejected), B.A. 13 May, 1641, M.A. 21 April, 1645 (incorporated at Cambridge 1648), D.C.L. 1 Dec., 1660 (as Mews); president of his college 1667-73, vice-chancellor 1669-73; born 25 March, 1619, bore arms in the civil war and was wounded, canon of Lincoln 1645, archdeacon of Huntingdon 1649, though not installed till 1660, rector of Farthingstone, Northants, 1645, of South Warnborough, Hants, 1662, rector and vicar of St. Mary, Reading. 1662, canon of Windsor 1662, and of St. Davids 1667, archdeacon of Berks, and rector of North Moreton, Berks, 1667, rector of Handborough, Oxon, 1668, dean of Rochester 1670, bishop of Bath and Wells 1673, and of Winchester 1684-1706; in 1685 he was in arms against the rebels headed by the Duke of Monmouth; died 9 Nov., 1706. See Ath. iv. 887; Hearne, i. 264; Robinson, i. 130; Lansdowne MS. 987, f. 286.

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Monument observed in Winchester cathedral by RAB 2018.

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