Sir Symonds D'Ewes
An English antiquary and statesman of the C17th.  

He was born at Coxden in Dorsetshire in 1602, and
received his education at St John's College
Cambridge.  At the age of 30 he had completed
his principal work, "The Journals of the
Parliaments under Elizabeth".  He was knighted
by Charles I, and in 1639 he served the office
of High Sheriff for the county of Suffolk.  He
was elected member of parliament for the borough
of Sudbury in 1640; and in the following year
he was created a baronet.  On the rupture taking
place between the king and the parliament, he
adhered to the latter, and was one of those
who took the solemn league and covenant. Being
expelled, with others of the Long Parliament,
in 1648, he retired from public business, and 
devoted himself to archaeological pursuits. 
He died in 1650.  He published a parliamentary
harangue, "touching the antiquity of Cambridge,"
(4to). His "Journals of Elizabeth", was a
posthumous publication, and did not appear until
1682. [From a biography by G. Aitkin.]

Extracted from a Biographical Dictionary by
John Gorton dated 1835.