Family and Education
b. c. 1594, 2nd s. of Thomas Howell, rect. of Cynwil and Abernant, Carm. educ. Hereford Free sch.; Jesus, Oxf. 1610, BA 1613.Al. Ox. unm. bur. 3 Nov. 1666 3 Nov. 1666. Temple Church (Harl. Soc. reg. n.s. i), 37. sig. Ja[mes] Howell.
Offices Held

Steward, Broad Street glassworks, London c.1615–16.J. Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae (1727), pp. 19–21.

Fellow, Jesus Coll. Oxf. ?1619.Ibid. 85.

Member, (Sir John Digby*) 1st earl of Bristol’s embassy to Spain, 1622 – 24; sec. to ld. pres. Sunderland 1626/7–30, to 2nd earl of Leicester (Sir Robert Sidney*) 1632.Epistolae Ho-Elianae, 121–69, 194–8; Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives comp. G.M. Bell, 34.

?Clerk of PC 1642–3;CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 12. historiographer royal 1661 – d.

Main residences: the King's Manor, York; Westminster.
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Commons 1604-1629
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HOWELL, James (c.1594-1666)

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