---
_id: cnp00016368
data:
  external:
    - auth: ESTC
      country: GB
      id: sb053989
  foundIn:
    - 'DNB=Spens, Sir James, fl. 1571-1627; Scottish adventurer and diplomatist; knighted by James I & VI, surrendered pension 1619, perhaps on receiving a commission to compound with persons in trade who had not qualified as apprentices. Date of death uncertain'
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Spens
        - firstname: James
        - addition: Sir
      usedBy:
        - ESTC(AACR2)
  imprintSource:
    - title: 'S122298: A copie of the principall parts of his Maiestie commissions [sic] for granting of pardons to such as vse trades, 1619 [a 7 year grant to Sir James Spens, Archibald Primrose Henry Goldsmith, Robert More]'
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  distinctFrom:
    - cnp00040573
  history:
    - timestamp: 2002-11-06T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2004-02-09T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2005-04-30T06:50:49Z
  status: n