D'EWES, SIR SYMONDS, BARONET
Arms.—Or, 3 quatrefoils pierced gu. D'Ewes.
Crest.—A wolf's head erased or, about the neck a collar vairé.
[D'Ewes. Journals of Parliaments temp. Eliz. Harl. MS. 73.]
Symonds D'Ewes (born 18th December 1602, died 8th April 1650) was the son of Paul D'Ewes of Milden in Suffolk. He went to Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1623. His tastes were always of a literary and antiquarian character, and he was a friend of Sir Robert Cotton. In 1626 he received the honour of Knighthood, and on his father's death in 1631 he inherited considerable property.
D'Ewes was High Sheriff of Suffolk and Member of Parliament for Sudbury, and in 1641 he became a Baronet. He wrote many valuable historical and antiquarian works; his "Diaries" are now in the British Museum, as are several others of his manuscripts, forming part of the Harleian Collection.
