LASHER, James II (1579-at least 1638), of All Hallows, Bread Street, London; later of Fairlight, Suss.

Family and Education

bap. 27 Apr. 1579, 1st s. of James Lasher I, innholder, of Hastings, Suss. and 1st w. Elizabeth Durrant of Hastings.E. Suss. RO, St. Clement’s, Hastings par. reg. educ. appr. Francis Shute, Goldsmith 1594.Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, appr. bk. 1, f. 101. m. 19 Nov. 1604, Anne, da. of John Chambers, Grocer, of Lewisham, Kent, 1s. d.v.p. 2da.Regs. of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw transcribed J.M.S. Brooke and A.W.C. Hallen, 348; All Hallows, Bread Street and St. John the Evangelist, Friday Street, London (Harl. Soc. Reg. xliii), 16; PROB 11/124, f. 86r-v. suc. fa. 1623. sig. James Lasher.

Offices Held

Freeman, Goldsmiths’ Co. 1602–13; Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, min. bks. 1599–1604, p. 273; 1611–17, pp. 118–19. liveryman, Blacksmiths’ Co. 1613, asst. 1614, steward (jt.) mayor’s feast 1616, upper warden 1626–9.GL, ms 2881/2, pp. 96, 127; 2881/3, pp. 4, 28, 53.

Capt. militia ft., Tower Street ward, London by 1608-at least 1616,Lansd. 255, f. 432; G. Goold Walker, ‘Trained Bands of London’, Jnl. of the Hon. Art. Co. xvi. no. 181, p. 3. Hastings trained band by 1619 – ?23; member, Hon. Art. Co. London 1611, treas. 1614;G.A. Raikes, Ancient Vellum Bk. 4, 16; W.D. Cooper and T. Ross, ‘Notices of Hastings’, Suss. Arch. Colls. xiv. 102; Add. 37818, f. 138. freeman, London by 1612,Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, appr. bk. 1, f. 206v. Hastings 1620.E. Suss. RO, Hastings corp. bk. 1, f. 221.

Dep. exchanger by 1628.CD 1628, iii. 446.

Parlimentarian

LASHER, James II (1579-at least 1638), of All Hallows, Bread Street, London; later of Fairlight, Suss.

Main residences: All Hallows, Bread Street, London; Fairlight, Suss.

Author

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

LASHER, James II (1579-at least 1638)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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