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PETER MEWS (1619-1706)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER See also:MEWS (1619-1706)  , See also:English royalist and divine, was See also:born at Caundle See also:Purse in See also:Dorset on the 25th of See also:March 1619, and was educated at the See also:Merchant Taylors' school, and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he was See also:scholar and See also:fellow . When the See also:Civil See also:War See also:broke out in 1642 he joined the Royalist See also:army, and, having been made a See also:captain, was taken prisoner at See also:Naseby; but he was soon released and in 1648 sought See also:refuge in See also:Holland . He became friendly with See also:Charles I.'s secretary, See also:Sir See also:Edward See also:Nicholas, and being skilful at disguising himself was very useful to the Royalists during the See also:rule of See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell, undertaking two, journeys to See also:Scotland in 1653 . Before this See also:Mews had been ordained . Taking the degree of D.C.L. and regaining his fellowship at Oxford after the Restoration, he became See also:archdeacon of See also:Huntingdon, See also:vicar of St See also:Mary's, See also:Reading, and See also:chaplain to the See also:king; then, having obtained two other livings, he was made See also:canon of See also:Windsor, canon of St See also:David's, and archdeacon of See also:Berkshire . In 1667, when at See also:Breda arranging See also:peace between See also:England and Holland, he was chosen See also:president of St John's College, Oxford, in See also:succession to his See also:father-in-See also:law, Dr See also:Richard Baylie, afterwards becoming See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university and See also:dean of See also:Rochester . Appointed See also:bishop of See also:Bath and See also:Wells in 1672, Mews resigned his See also:presidency in 1673, and in 1684 he was elected bishop of See also:Winchester, a position which this " old, honest See also:cavalier," as See also:Thomas See also:Hearne calls him, filled until his See also:death on the 9th of See also:November 1706 . The bishop is buried in Winchester See also:cathedral . Mews See also:lent his See also:carriage horses to pull the See also:cannon at a See also:critical moment during the See also:battle of Sedgemoor, where he was wounded whilst accompanying the royal army . He was, however, in sympathy with the seven bishops, and was only prevented by illness from attending their See also:meeting; and as visitor of Magdalen College, Oxford, he supported the See also:fellows in their resistance to See also:James II., admitted their nominee, John Hough, to the presidency, and restored the ejected fellows in See also:October 1688 . He took the oaths to See also:William and Mary in 1689 . In the See also:absence of See also:Compton, bishop of See also:London, Mews took the See also:chief See also:part at the. See also:consecration of See also:Tillotson as See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury in 1691 .

See S . H . Cassan, Lives of the Bishops of Winchester (1827) ; and the Nicholas Papers, edited by G . F . See also:

Warner (1886-1897) .

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