Family and Education
b. 1590, 2nd s. of Richard Nashe† (d. 6 Oct. 1606)Parish Bk. of St Helen’s Church in Worcester ed. J.B. Wilson (2 vols. 1900), ii, 108. of St Helen, Worcester and Margaret, da. of Thomas Walsgrove alias Fleet† of Worcester.Parish Bk. of St Helen’s, ii. 101; St Helen par. reg. educ. appr. Worcester clothiers’ co. 21 Dec. 1605.Worcs. Archives, 705:232, BA 5955/2 ff. 51. unm. d. May 1662.St Helen par. reg.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Worcester by Apr. 1613;Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A1, box 2, vol. i (Liber Recordum), unfol. member, forty- eight, 26 Apr. 1622; twenty-four, 20 Nov. 1630;Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, shelf 18, box 4, town clerk’s bk. unfol. auditor, 1631, 1635;Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A10, box 3, vol. ii, city chamberlains’ acct. bk. 1633–9, ff. 108, 158. sheriff, 1632;List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 228. mayor and judge of ct. of orphans, 1634; gov. and supervisor, free sch. and almshouses, 9 June 1634–d.Worcs. Archives, b261.1/BA 3617, f. 100. J.p. 1634, 1635, 4 Feb. 1640–d.Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A13, box 1, sessions order bk. 1633–55, unfol.; Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 277. Snr. alderman, 1635;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 276; Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A13, box 1, sessions order bk. 1633–55, unfol. permanent alderman, 4 Feb. 1640–d.Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 335.

Mercantile: jnr. warden, Worcester clothiers’ co. 1625 – 26; snr. warden, 1626 – 27; high master, 1634–5.Worcs. Archives, 705:232, BA 5955/2 ff. 139, 141v, 172.

Local: commr. further subsidy, Worcester 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. assessment, 1642, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 20 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Worcs. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). commr. for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644; militia, 2 Dec. 1648; Worcs. and Worcester 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

: of St Martin, Worcester.
Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, J. Ross, 1761;NPG. fun. monument, St Helen’s, Worcester.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

NASHE, John (1590-1662), of St Martin, Worcester

Will
30 July-30 Aug. 1661, pr. 15 Aug. 1662.Worcs. Archives, BA 3585.
Estates
Tenements and gardens in St Martin par. Worcester; lands at Helpridge, Dodderhill, Redmarley Oliver, Great Witley, Kempsey, Shelsley Beauchamp, Orleton, Powick and Mitton, Worcs.; two bullaries (salt-pits), Droitwich, Worcs.; lands at Llanfihangel Cefnllys, Rad.; cash bequests of over £3,500 in his will.Worcs. Archives, BA 3585.
Oxford 1644
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