Family and Education
b. by 1523, 2nd s. of Richard Warnecombe (d. 17 Nov. 1547) of Ivington, Lugwardine and Hereford by 2nd w. Anne, da. of Richard Bromwich of Hereford; bro. of John. educ. I. Temple, adm. 3 July 1537, called. m. (1) by 1548, Eleanor Hyett, s.p.; (2) 24 July 1567, Mary, da. of John Cornwall of Burford, Salop, s.p.Date of birth estimated from education. Vis. Herefs. ed. Weaver, 71; C142/86/94; Cal. I.T. Recs. i. 116.
Offices Held

V.-justice of Chester 1545; escheator, Herefs. and the marches 1548 – 49; commr. relief, Herefs. 1550, to survey lands of bpric. of Hereford 1559, musters, Herefs. by 1573; recorder, Ludlow 1551 – 63; standing counsel to Leominster by 1552; j.p. Herefs. 1554 – d., q. by 1569; collector for loan, Herefs. 1562; mayor Hereford 1571 – 72, 1578 – 79; dep. justice, Brec. Circuit 1575; sheriff, Herefs. 1576–7.Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 65; CPR, 1553, p. 354; 1553–4, p. 20; 1558–60, pp. 31, 422; 1569–72, p. 225; Lansd. 56, ff. 168 seq.; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 2), xi. 313–14; G. F. Townsend, Leominster, 77–78, 292; Osborn coll. Yale Univ. Lib. 71.6.41; Duncumb, Herefs. i. 367; Cal. Hereford Docs. ed. Macray, 31; W. R. Williams, Welsh Judges, 70.

Main residence: Ivington, Herefs.
Author
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title

WARNECOMBE (WARMECOMBE), James (by 1523-81)

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Oxford 1644
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