1763 Thos Lankshear was indentured as an apprentice to Absalom MONK of Burford Oxfordshire which is about 8 miles from Thomas's birth place of Clanfield
from UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811
The same year as Absolom took on Rich Cooper
This could be Absalom
ABSALOM MONK Marriage ANN ARKELL 13 JAN 1757 Burford, Oxford, England
also
Title Absalom Monk, Burford - re bill for coachmaker's work, 1764. Date 1768 Description 15 Oct. 1768
Level Item Held At Gloucestershire Archives
Also he is recorded in 1772 as a CHIEF LORDS AND TENANTS OF THE MANOR AND TOWN OF BURFORD
and also perhaps his brother James in 1776
Read the ebook The Burford records, a study in minor town government by R. H. (Richard Henry) Gretton