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Hewer never married and so devised that his estate go to his godson Hewer
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Clothworkers' Company, and was immediately sworn in as a member of the Court of
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expenditures after his father's death in 1665. By 1674, Hewer was wealthy enough to finance the construction of three warships. He became a director of the old East India
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Hewer managed to become very rich. He made much of it through his involvement in trading with his uncle
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in 1689, Pepys and Hewer lost their patronage from the Crown; both were briefly imprisoned, but were released without trial.
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