BAGG, James II (c.1592-1638), of Plymouth, Devon; later of Saltram, nr. Plympton Erle, Devon and Queen Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Comptroller of customs, Plymouth, and Fowey, Cornw. 1614-at least 1621; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 235; E351/624. commr. piracy, Devon 1620, Cornw. 1624-at least 1626; C181/3, ff. 2, 113, 195v; v. adm.-S. Cornw. (sole) 1622 – 11 June 1638, (jt.) 11 June 1638–d., HCA 30/820/10; HCA 25/215, bdle. of warrants 1619–44; CSP Dom. 1637–8, pp. 362–3. Devon (jt.) 1626–d.; Add. 37816, f. 183v; HCA 30/849, f. 395. dep. mayor, Plymouth 1623; CSP Dom. 1619–23, p. 612. commr. to press seamen, Devon 1625–8; HMC Cowper, i. 193; Bodl. Rawl. A210, ff. 11, 13–14, 16, 20, 27. collector of Admlty. tenths, Cornw. 1625; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 116; 1628–9, p. 282. victualler to the fleet, Plymouth 1625–8, A. Thrush, ‘The Bottomless Bagg? Sir James Bagg and the Navy, 1623–8’, The New Maritime Hist. of Devon, I ed. M. Duffy et al. 115. dep. commr. French goods 1626; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 511. commr. martial law, Devon and Cornw. 1625, C193/8/56. Plymouth 1626–8, APC, 1627–8, p. 79; CSP Dom. 1627–8, pp. 384, 394; SP16/103/1. to investigate Sir John Eliot* as v.-adm. of Devon’s accts. 1626–7; H. Hulme, Life of Sir John Eliot, 153–4; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 445; J. Forster, Eliot, ii. 32–3, 36. j.p. Devon 1626 – d., Cornw. 29 June 1638–d.; C231/4, f. 207; 231/5, p. 301. collector of new impositions, Western ports 1626–d.; Harl. 3796, ff. 30–1; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 3. commr. to investigate abuses of officers in V.-Admlty. of Devon 1627, CSP Dom. 1627–8, pp. 316, 349. Forced Loan, Devon 1627, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p.144. sick and injured soldiers and seamen, Plymouth 1628, APC, 1628–9, p. 208. inventory goods aboard St. Peter of Hamburg 1628; HCA 14/44, f. 86. dep. lt. Devon 1629; CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 19. gov. (jt.) of Plymouth Fort and St. Nicholas Isle, Plymouth 1629–d.; Ibid. 1628–9, p. 526; 1638–9, p. 3. commr. knighthood fines, Devon c.1630; E101/668/12. steward, ‘annexed lands’, duchy of Cornw. c.1630/1; E306/12, pt. 2, ff. 14v, 21v. commr. survey, Cattewater harbour, Plymouth 1636; PC2/45, f. 419. commr. revenues of duchy of Cornw. by 1637–d., E306/12, pt. 2, pkt. 22, no. 33; pkt. 25, no. 9. to appraise goods taken in the White Falcon, Plymouth 1638. HCA 30/849, f. 395.

Member, Virg. Co. 1620–4; Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, i. 383; iv. 80. cttee. New Eng. Co. 1632; Procs. American Antiq. Soc. (1867), p. 107. Member, Westminster Co. of Soapmakers 1636.C66/2788/10.">[footnote]