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Son of John Ewens and his wife, Elizabeth Keynes, he was born in Somerset in 1611.
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Maurice Ewens
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After studying humanities in the College of the English Jesuits at Saint Omer, he entered the English College at Rome for higher studies, 18 October 1628. He was admitted at Watten, near Saint Omer, the same year, under the assumed name of Maurice Newport, by which he was known. On 23 November 1643 he was professed of the four vows.
After a course of teaching in the College of Saint Omer, Ewens was sent to the English mission, and stationed in the Hampshire district in 1644.
Subsequently he went to the Devon and Oxford districts, and finally in the London district, of which he was declared rector 17 May 1666. There he remained till the time of the alleged Popish Plot (1678-1679), when he left for Belgium.
