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JAMES, John (d.1601), of Newport, I.o.W., and London.

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educ. Trinity Coll. Camb. 1564, scholar 1565, BA 1567, fellow 1569, MA 1571, MD 1578; Leyden. m. 1570, his cos. Mary James.
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Candidate, College of Physicians 1582, fellow 1584, censor 1588, 1591, 1594; physician to Queen’s household 1595; jt. keeper of the recs. at Whitehall by Oct. 1597.W. Munk, Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, i. 87; HMC Hatfield, vii. 431; Matthews thesis.

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JAMES, John (d.1601), of Newport, I.o.W., and London.
Main residence: Newport, I.o.W., and London.
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JAMES, Francis (1559-1616), of Wells and Bristol.

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b. 1559, 3rd s. of John James of Little Onn, Staffs. by Ellen, da. of William Bolte of Sandbach, Cheshire. educ. fellow, All Souls, Oxf. 1577, BCL 1583, DCL 1588. m. (1) Elizabeth (d.1599), ?s.p.; (2) Blanche, da. and coh. of Francis Gunton of Gunter, wid. of Sir William Billingsley; at least 2s. 5da.
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Adv. Doctors’ Commons 1590; judge of ct. of audience of Canterbury 1590; chancellor, diocese of London 1590; ?receiver-gen. to bp. of Bath and Wells 1599, chancellor of diocese; master in Chancery extraordinary by 1601; j.p.q. Dorset from c. 1593, Som. from c. 1601; commr. piracy Dorset 1602; eccles. commr. 1603 – 04; master in Chancery in ordinary 1614.Vis. Durham, ed. Foster, 187; P. M. Hembry, ‘Three Bps. Bath and Wells’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1956), p. 278; HMC Wells, ii. 359; Mort thesis; Roberts thesis.

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JAMES, Francis (c.1559-1616), of Barrow Court, Som.; formerly of Bristol, Glos.
Main residences: Wells; Bristol.
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