He was ordained priest at Rome 13 November 1634, and left the college for Belgium, by leave of the pope, 26 April 1635, in order to join the Society of Jesus.
[1] After a course of teaching in the College of St. Omer, Ewens was sent to the English mission, and stationed in the Hampshire district in 1644.
There he remained till the time of the alleged Popish Plot (1678–9), when he left for Belgium.
For some years he resided in the Jesuit colleges at Ghent and Liège, but eventually he returned to London, where he died on 4 December 1687.
[1] Newport also wrote a manuscript treatise, De Scientiâ Dei, preserved in the library at Salamanca; and George Oliver conjectured that he was the author of A Golden Censer full with the pretious Incense to the Praisers of Saints, Paris, 1654, dedicated to Queen Henrietta Maria.