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Family and Education
b. c. 1622, 1st s. of John Ashe* and Elizabeth, da. of Henry Davison.Burke Dorm. and Extinct Baronetcies, 16. educ. Leiden 6 Nov. 1643;E. Peacock, Index to English Speaking Students who have graduated at Leyden University (1883), 4. I. Temple 27 Sept. 1645, called 5 July 1652.I. Temple database. m. 16 Sept. 1652, Margary, da. of Sir James Harington, 3rd bt.* of Swakeleys, Ickenham, Mdx. 3s 2da.Par. Reg. of Kensington (Harl. Soc. xvi), 74; PROB11/341/228. suc. fa. 1659. d. Aug. 1671; bur. 21 Sept. 1671 21 Sept. 1671.PROB11/341/341/228; C6/220/4; Milton Lilborne bishops’ transcripts.
Offices Held

Local: commr. Som. contributions, 27 Jan. 1643; assessment, 27 Jan. 1643, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Wilts. 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Som. 1 July 1644;A. and O. sewers, 15 Nov. 1645 – aft.Jan. 1646, 22 Sept. 1659;C181/5, ff. 263v, 268; C181/6, p. 394. militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. J.p. Wilts. Mar. 1653 – June 1670, Mar. – July 1671; Som. 4 Mar. 1657-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, pp. 254, 360; C231/7, pp. 370, 388, 399; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 377. poll tax, Wilts. 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR.

Civic: freeman, Bath Dec. 1645;Bath and NE Som. RO, Bath council bk. 1631–49, p. 226. recorder, Sept. 1652-June 1660.Bath and NE Som. RO, Bath council bk. 1649–84, pp. 67, 242.

: of Fifield, Milton Lilbourne, Wilts.
Likenesses

Likenesses: medal (based on portrait of another sitter), unknown, eighteenth century.E. Hawkins, Medallic Illustrations (1885), i. 422.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ASHE, James (c.1622-71), of Fifield, Milton Lilbourne, Wilts.

Will
19 Aug. 1671, pr. 14 Feb. 1673.PROB11/341/228.
Estates
owned land at Milton Lilbourne and Melksham, Wilts.PROB11/341/228.
Oxford 1644
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