1586 JAMES ELLIS, (Woollen Draper).
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A native of Borton in the parish of Ribblesdale, co. York, where he was born about 1535; enrolled a freeman of Leic. 1559-60, elected a chamberlain 1568, alderman 1575 and again mayor 1602. In 1606 he signed the memorial in favour of Sunday shop closing. He appears to have died unmarried in 1617, and was buried at St. Martin's 7 November of that year, where a monument formerly marked his grave. By his will, bearing date 4 September 1615, read over and acknowledged by him 22 October 1617, proved at Leic. 11 November 1617 and in the P.C.C., London, 6 May 1618, he left legacies to the master of the Free School at Leic. and to the church and poor of Borton in Ribblesdale, Yorks.
1602 JAMES ELLIS. (2)
(Queen Elizabeth died at Richmond Palace 24 March 1603. James, king of Scotland, son of Mary, queen of Scots and Henry, Lord Darnley, a great grandson of Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII, crowned at Westminster25 July 1603).
