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b. c. 1555,Age calculated from date of freedom. s. of Edward James of Woolaston and Margaret, da. and coh. of William Warren of Willsbury, St. Briavel’s, Glos. educ. appr. Bristol 1571. m. by 1589, Anne, 5s. 6da. (1 d.v.p.). d. 23 Jan. 1619. Bristol RO, appr. bk. 1566-92, f. 59v; Vis. Glos. ed. Fenwick and Metcalfe, 98; M.E. Bagnall-Oakley, ‘Rural Deanery of South Forest’, Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. xxv. 166; C142/747/156.
Offices Held

Freeman, Bristol 1578, Bristol RO, burgess bk. 1557–99, f. 80v. common councilman by 1591–1604, Bristol Lists comp. A.B. Beaven, 298. sheriff 1591–2, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 167. alderman 1604–d., Bristol Lists, 298. commr. piracy 1604, C181/1, f. 92. mayor 1605 – 06, 1614–15, Bristol Lists, 298. constable of staple 1606 – 07, 1615–16, Bristol RO, common council procs. 1598–1608, p. 122; 1608–27, f. 55. commr. subsidy 1608, SP14/31/1, f. 15v. cause between Alonsi de Velasco and Matthew Springham 1613, HCA 30/348, f. 152. sewers, Glos. 1615. C181/2, f. 240.

Commr. Union with Scotland 1604. CJ, i. 208a.

Asst. Spanish Co. 1605; Spanish Co. ed. P. Croft (London Rec. Soc. ix), 101. cttee. Virg. Co. 1606; T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 323. warden, Bristol Merchant Venturers 1606 – 07, master 1607 – 08, 1615–16. J. Latimer, Hist. of Merchant Venturers of Bristol, 326.

Parlimentarian
JAMES, Thomas (c.1555-1619), of Back Street, Bristol and Sulla, Lydney, Glos.
Main residences: Back Street, Bristol; Sulla, Lydney, Glos.
Author
A.D.
Volume
Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

JAMES, Thomas (c.1555-1619)

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Oxford 1644
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