Family and Education
b. c. 1526, 3rd s. of Sir John Bassett of Umberleigh by 2nd w. Honor, da. of Sir Thomas Grenville of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornw., bro. of George. educ. Reading abbey 1534; Calvy college, Paris, Aug. 1535-6; private tuition in Paris and St. Omer 1536-8; College of Navarre, Paris 1537-8; bp. of Winchester’s household 1538. m. by June 1556, Mary, da. of William Roper of St. Dunstan’s, Canterbury and Eltham, Kent, and Chelsea, Mdx., 2s.Aged 24 ‘or thereabouts’ in January 1551, Foxe, Acts and Mons. vi. 231. Vis. Devon, ed. Vivian, 45; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 82; LP Hen. VIII, vii. ix, xi-xiv.
Offices Held
Gent. of the household of Stephen Gardiner, bp. of Winchester, 1538 – 55, of the privy chamber 1553 – d., of King Philip’s privy chamber 1554–d.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Umberleigh, Devon; London.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
BASSETT, James (c.1526-58)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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