Bowes was the second son of Sir Thomas Bowes, knight, of Great Bromley, Essex, the notorious witch-persecutor, by Mary, third daughter of Paul D."Ewes, one of the six clerks in chancery. He was born at Great Bromley, and after being educated in the school at Moulton, Norfolk, was admitted a pensioner of Saint John"s College, Cambridge, 21 December
Street John"s College.
He took no degree; indeed, he does not appear to have matriculated. Having fixed on the law for his future profession, he was on 12 May 1654 entered of the Middle Temple, and being called to the bar by that society 10 May 1661, became a bencher on 24 October 1679. Other editions appeared in 1693 and 1708.
His will, dated 5 August
1699 (with two codicils dated 17 April and 12 August 1701), was proved by his widow and sole executrix, 16 July 1702. Besides property in Lincolnshire, Suffolk, and Essex, he was possessed, in 1700, of the manor of Rushton, Stokeford, and Binnegar in East Stoke, Dorsetshire.
Mistress Bowes died in 1706. The eldest son, Martin, born in London, was also a pensioner of Saint John"s College, Cambridge, where he was admitted 16 April 1686, at the age of sixteen, but left without taking a degree.
Royal Society.
