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6i2 APPENDIX G the year 1600, whose arms he bore."(^) He served from the commence- ment of the Civil War, in the armies of the Earls of Essex and Manchester, and was promoted Lieut. Col. of the 8th regt. of Foot (com. by Col. John Pickering), in the "New Model," 15 Feb. 1644/5. He led the forlorn hope at the storming of Bridgwater, 22 July 1647; was prominently engaged in the suppression of the "Kentish Rising," 1647-48; fought at the battle of Maidstone, 2 June 1648, where, according to Gen. Fairfax, " Hewson's Regiment had the hardest task" ; and at the siege of Walmer Castle, June 1648, a royalist newsletter states that the garrison " so cugell'd them that Hewson would give all the shoes in his shop to be at London." He also took part in the relief of Dover and defeat of the Cavaliers at Deal, 14 Aug. 1648. He was one of the Regicide Judges, attended throughout the trial, and signed the death-warrant, 29 Jan. 1648/9. Hon. M.A., Oxford, 19 May 1649; Gov. of the City of Dublin 16 Sep. 1649; one of the six members for Ireland, in the " Barebones " Pari., July to Dec. 1653; for CO. Dublin 3 Sep. 1654 to Jan. i6<;4/i;; and for Guildford (Surrey) 20 Oct. 1656. Sheriff for CO. Dublin 1653; Com. -in-Chief of the Foot, in Ireland, 8 July i659.() An Independent of the extreme type, he favoured the Anabaptists, and headed the faction in Ireland which gave so much trouble to Henry Cromwell. ('^) Councillor of State 14 July 1653; member of the Committee of Safety, representing the " Wallingford House" party, 26 Oct. 1659. He was knighted by the Lord Protector 5 Dec. 1657; sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "John Lord Hewson," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords. He was Col. of Foot, in the new Pari. army, June 1659, and rendered himself very unpopular by marching his regt. into the City to suppress a tumult of the London apprentices, 5 Dec. i659.() At the Restoration he escaped into Holland. (') lord." [Second Narrative of the late Parliament). The last verse of a contemporary ballad runs: " Sing hi ho, Hewson, the State never went upright. Since coblers could pray, preach, govern, and fight." (*) See an interesting account of " Col. John Hewson, the Cromwellian," by the late John Hewetson, Journal, R.S.A.I., vol. xxxvi, p. 429. C") L'Estrange relates a delightful Irish anecdote of Hewson: "A lady of quality in Ireland, having been so terribly plundered as almost to be barefoot, was warming herself in a chimney-corner, when Hewson took notice that her shoes wanted capping. ' Why, truly. Sir (she replied), all the Cobblers are turned Colonels, and I can get nobody to mend them.' " [Harl. Misc., vol. i, p. 287). (") Henry Cromwell writes to Thurloe, 19 Dec. 1655: "If Coll. Hewson must be believed (with his three anabaptist sons) I must be made a liar, if not worse: what hath made all the sober godly people in Irelande afraide of that interest." (Thurloe's State Papers, vol. iv, p. 327). if) Pepys writes, 25 Jan. 1659/60: "Heard that in Cheapside there had been but a little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson hung upon it in the middle of the street." («) Russell writes from Amsterdam, 20 Dec. 1660, that he " has at last lighted on the game so long hunted after. There are in the town Harry Cromwell, Sir John