Flesher, James (1685-1733)

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There are two possibilities here:
FOSTER: JAMES FLESHER, son of James Flesher of London, gent. CHRIST CHURCH, matriculated 9 July 1677, aged 15; B.A. 1681; M.A. 26 Feb. 1683/4. Rector of Mobberley, Cheshire, 1690.

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VENN (as Fletcher): Adm. pens. (age 16) at JESUS, 17 Oct. 1676. S. of James (? 1655), clerk, of Essex. ' Matric. 1676; Scholar, 1680; B.A. 1680/1. R. of Mobberley, Cheshire, 1690-1733. Died 1733.

The Oxford man at least has exactly the same name. However, the degrees do not match the ecclesiastical records: both 1691 and 1701 Registers of Orders give him as only B.A., which is consistent with the Cambridge man but not the Oxford.

J.P. Earwaker, East Cheshire, 2 vols. (1877-80), 211, 330-1, notes that Flesher was Curate at Prestbury in 1690, and that he had been presented to the Rectory of Mobberley on 27 Nov. 1690. His predecessor at Pott Shrigley was bur. at Prestbury on 30 Oct. 1697. He held both Mobberley and Pott Shrigley till his death, 'and appears to have resided at Pott Shrigley, putting in a curate at Mobberley. there are several entries of baptisms for his children in the Pott Shrigley registers, and a few burials in those of Prestbury; - the earliest Pott bapt. was 15 Aug. 1698.
Prestbury register records his burial as 'Minister of Pott Chapple';, 17 Dec. 1732.

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