James MEWS

Bef 23 Oct 1584? -

• Name	James MEWS
  Birth	Bef 23 Oct 1584?	London
  	According to "Notes & Queries" v17, he was born in London. The date is surmised from the assumption that he was over 21 when he took (with his mother) the lease of land in 1605.
  Gender	Male
  Event	23 Oct 1605	Purse Caundle, Dorset
  	Thomasina Mewe, wife of Ellis Mewe, with his consent, took from Lady of manor the reversion of a messuage and 4 closes of meadow and pasture (19 acres), now occupied by Alice Damyck, widow, to be held by Thomasina, and James, son of said Ellis and Thomasina, for their lives - rent 5s 3d [£39] - heriot to be paid on death = best beast - fine £50 [£7,483] - paying £5 in hand, the remainder in instalments. Sum of this court: £51 10s 4d and one cow made up of: fine £50, heriot 20s (for cow), relief 4d and forfeited penalty 10s. [http://pursecaundledorset.blogspot.com/2010/04/purse-caundle-history-chapter-6-stuart.html]
  Event	02 Jun 1609	Purse Caundle, Dorset
  	Purse Caundle Manor court of Sir William Dodington, knight, Lord of manor. Homage: Nicholas Polden, James Mewe, William Stone, George Kinge, Laurence Ellis, John Clarke, Simon Evered, William Evered, John Overe. [http://pursecaundledorset.blogspot.com/2010/04/purse-caundle-history-chapter-6-stuart.html]
  Event	1623	Purse Caundle, Dorset
  	Supported the instigation of "The Dorchester Company".
  	The Rev. John White, calvinist rector of St. Peter's, Dorchester, as part of his scheme to found a non-conformist colony in Massachussetts in New England, America, he formed 'The Dorchester Company'. Amongst the speculators were three from Purse Caundle: The Rev. Nathaniel Highmore, James Mew of the manor house, and Nicholas Polden, with each subscribing £20 [£2,510], to form a fishing enterprise in a plantation set up in Massachussetts. The first attempt resulted in a Chancery Suit - Beale v White - heard at Dorchester on 2nd and 12th July 1636. To quote from the Rev. White's preliminary answer to the suit, dated 12th October 1634, as reported in SDNQ XVII, 1921/3: 'Eleven years sithence and upwards divers knights, gentlemen, and others did agree to ioyne togither in purse as ioynt adventurers for the setling of a Plantacon in New England in America for the better and more convenient taking and saving of the fish of those parts, and also for bartering and exchange of commodoties transported from the Kingdopm of England with the natives of New England aforesaid as of such others as afterwards became adventurers with them; this defendant to his best knowledge and remembrance hath hereunder particularly menconed and expressed viz:- [Amongst the many listed investors were:] James Mew of Caundle manor house. Nicholas Polden of Caundle. Nathaniell Heighmore of Caundle.' During the 1620s many soldiers were moving from one place to another; whilst sick and maimed soldiers were on their way home, having to be paid for by the places through which they passed. Purse Caundle being some little way south of the main route from London to the West Country may well not have been so burdened, though several footpaths criss-crossed the parish. Whilst in 1624 the vicar of neighbouring Henstridge complained that "the prices of all things are grown to such an unreasonable height, that the common, that is the meaner sort of people, are even undone." [http://pursecaundledorset.blogspot.com/2010/04/purse-caundle-history-chapter-6-stuart.html]
  Event	1642	Purse Caundle, Dorset
  	One of the Parish Overseers.
  Residence	10 Dec 1652	Purse Caundle, Dorset
  	Assessed for Army levy. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56480&strquery=mew%20dorset]
  Event	1657	Purse Caundle, Dorset
  	In June was a further 'Act for Assessment upon England at the Rate of Sixty thousand Pounds by the Moneth, for three Moneths.' Dorset's share each month was £1,124-3s-4d. One of Dorset's administering Commissioners was again "James Mew of Candle". (He had undertaken this task numerous times previously). [http://pursecaundledorset.blogspot.com/2010/04/purse-caundle-history-chapter-6-stuart.html]
  Person ID	I117	Westover
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2011

  
  

  Father	Ellis MEWS,   b. Bef 1562
  Mother	Thomasina POWELL
  Marriage	23 Sep 1583	Bruton, Somerset
  Family ID	F39	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. James MEWS   2. MEWS   3. MEWS   4. Elizabeth MEWS   5. Hannah MEWS   6. MEWS   7. MEWS
  Family ID	F52	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2011