is already considerable fortune. On the 6th of December he
was knighted. He took an active part as a strong Puritan and member of
the moderate party in the opposition to the king's arbitrary government
in the Long Parliament of 1640, in which he sat as member for Sudbury.
On the 15th of July he was created a baronet by the king, but
nevertheless adhered to the parliamentary party when war broke out, and
in 1643 took the Covenant. He was one of the members expelled by Pride's
Purge in 1648, and died on the 18th of April 1650. He had married
secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart., of Risley
in Derbyshire, by whom he had a son, who succeeded to his estates and
title, the latter becoming extinct on the failure of male issue in 1731.
D'Ewes appears to have projected a work of very ambitious scope, no less
than the whole history of England based on original documents. But
though excelling as a collector of materials, and as a laborious,
conscientious and accurate transcriber, he had little power of
generalization or construction, and died without publishing anything
except an uninteresting tract, _The Primitive Practice for Preserving
Truth_ (1645), and some speeches. His _Journals of all the Parliaments
during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth_, however, a valuable work, was
published in 1682. His large collections, including transcripts from
ancient records, many of the originals of which are now dispersed or
destroyed, are in the Harleian collection in the British Museum. His
unprinted Diaries from 1621-1624 and from 1643-1647, the latter valuable
for the notes of proceedings in parliament, are often the only authority
for incidents and speeches during that period, and are amusing from the
glimpses the diarist affords of his own character, his good estimation
of himself and his little jealousies; some are in a cipher and some in
Latin.

Extracts from his _Autobiography and Correspondence_ from the MSS. in
the British Museum were published by J. O. Halliwell-Phillips in 1845,
by Hearne in the appendix to his _Historia vitae et regni Ricardi II._
(1729), and in the _Bibliotheca topographica Britannica_, No. xv. vol.
vi. (1783); and from a Diary of later date, _College Life in the Time
of James I._ (1851). His Diaries have been extensively drawn upon by
Forster, Gardiner, and by Sanford in his _Studies of the Great
Rebellion_. Some of his speeches have been reprinted in the Harleian
Miscellan