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MEWS, PETER (1619-1706)

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MEWS, See also:PETER (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 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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