Person: Mews, Peter (1645 - 1699)

• Comments

  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.
  
  See ODNB.
  
  Monument observed in Winchester cathedral by RAB 2018.

Education Events

• MA : Oxford / St John's

  Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
  Sub	Mews, Petrus	14/01/1645	MA	Oxford	View
  Appt	Mewes, Peter	12/11/1645	MA		View

• LLD

  Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
  Appt	Mews, Peter	05/07/1662	LLD		View
  Sub	Mews, Peter	16/07/1662	LLD		View
  Sub	Mews, Peter	07/02/1668	LLD		View

• DD

  Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
  LibC	Mews, Petrus	24/09/1663	DD		View

Ordination Events

• deacon : 14/01/1645 (Skinner, Robert/Oxford 1641-1663)

  Type	Name	Date	Status	Event	Full Record
  Sub	Mews, Petrus	14/01/1645	deacon	Ordination	View

Appointment Events

• Prebendary : Lincoln cathedral, Prebend of Sutton-in-Marisco (08/09/1645 - 07/05/1668 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Mews, Petro	08/09/1645	Prebendary	Collation	Lincoln Cathedral/Prebend of Sutton in Marisco	View
  Appt	Lawrence, Johannes	07/05/1668	Prebendary	Collation	Lincoln Cathedral/Prebend of Sutton in the Marsh	View

• Rector : Farthingstone (12/11/1645 - 12/01/1680 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Mewes, Peter	12/11/1645	Rector	Admission	Farthingstone/	View
  Appt	Hutton, John	12/01/1680	Rector	Institution	Farthingstone/	View

• Archdeacon : Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, Archdeacon of Huntingdon (19/11/1649 - 18/03/1666 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Mews, Petro	19/11/1649	Archdeacon	Collation	Lincoln Cathedral/Archdeacon of Huntingdon	View
  Vac	Mews, Petrus	18/03/1666	Archdeacon	cession	Huntingdon/	View

• Rector : South Warnborough (05/07/1662 - 08/02/1668 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Mews, Peter	05/07/1662	Rector	Induction Mandate	Southwarnborough/	View
  Libc	Mews, Petrus	24/09/1663	Rector		Southwarnborough/	View
  Vac	Mew, Peter	08/02/1668	Rector	resignation	Southwarnborough/	View
  Vac	Mewes, Petrus	08/02/1668	Rector	resignation	South Warmeborn aleas (sic) South Warmborough Hamp/	View

• Rector : Hanborough (07/02/1668 - 14/05/1699 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Sub	Mews, Peter	07/02/1668	Rector		Handborough/	View
  Appt	Delaune, Gulielmus	14/05/1699	Rector	Institution	Hanborough/	View

• Dean : Rochester cathedral, deanery (06/03/1673 - 06/03/1673 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Vac	Mews, Peter	06/03/1673	Dean	Promotion	Rochester cathedral/deanery	View

Subscription Events

• Archdeacon: Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, Archdeacon of Huntingdon (16/07/1662)

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Sub	Mews, Peter	16/07/1662	Archdeacon	Others	Huntingdon/	View