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| | Pepys' Diary: Hewson, John |
 | | John Hewson, who, from a low origin, became a colonel in the Parliament army, and sat in judgment on the King: he escaped hanging by flight, and died in 1662, at Amsterdam. |
 | | Plant’s description hints that Hewson was one pungent Puritan: He “proclaimed himself ‘the child of wrath’ in his frequent impromptu sermons.” |
 | | On the other side, the soldiers proclaimed the proclamation against any subscriptions, which the boys shouted at in contempt, which some could not bear but let fly their muskets and killed in several places (whereof I see one in Cornhill shot through the head) 6 or 7. |
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