Eusebius Andrews

Who is Eusebius Andrews?

Eusebius Andrews was an English royalist.

Andrews was of a good family "but inconsiderable estate" in Middlesex, was secretary to Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham and a barrister. Early in the civil war he joined the king's army; but on the surrender of Worcester in 1645, despairing of the success of his cause, he returned to the private practice of his former profession. He did not acknowledge the party in power, either by compounding for his "delinquency", or by subscription to the covenant and the tests which succeeded it.

But his course of life, however retired, could not escape the vigilance of the Puritan rulers, his actions, for years together, being as well known to the council of state "as if they had kept a diary for him". John Barnard, a major formerly under his command, was his frequent visitor, and "obtruded upon his acquaintance" two cavaliers, Captain Holmes and John Benson, a copying clerk under Rushworth who proposed to take advantage of the discontent of the dismissed parliamentary officers, and of their repentant desire to serve the young king.