Family and Education
s. and h. of Richard Ash. m. Alice,CP25(1)45/76/17; CPL, viii. 125-6. If a petition addressed to ‘the bishop of Winchester’ as chancellor may be assigned to Bishop Beaufort’s chancellorship of 1424-6, then Alice was the da. and h. of Thomas Withycombe, and brought Ash a claim to three messuages and some 400 acres of land at Withycombe Raleigh and elsewhere (C1/26/293). However, the petition may date from Bishop Waynflete’s chancellorship of 1456-60, in which case it more likely relates to the wife of Ash’s son John. 1s. John†.
Offices Held
Steward of Otterton priory, Devon from 5 Sept. 1426, of Totnes 1430 – 31, 1438–9.
Commr. to assess a tax rebate, Mdx. Dec. 1433, Apr. 1440; administer the oath against maintenance Jan. 1434; assess a tax Jan. 1436; of weirs, Bucks., Herts., Mdx. July 1438; to raise royal loans, Mdx. June 1446.
J.p. Mdx. 3 Feb. 1433 – June 1449.
Dep. steward of Hen. VI’s household by July 1444.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Sowton ('Clyst Fomson'), Devon.
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Commons 1386-1421
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ASH, John
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Oxford 1644
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