John Plemth

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John Plemth (alternative spellings include Plente, Plenth, Plenty, Plentith and Plentyth) was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1478 until his death in 1483. [1]

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Life

A native of Stratford-upon-Avon, he was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He held incumbencies at Sturminster Marshall, Beccles, Brightwalton and Hartfield. His will was dated 9 May 1483; and was proved on 23 August: he requested burial at Exeter Cathedral [2]

Legacy

Plemth founded a chantry at King's College, Cambridge, where he was bursar; [3] he was one of a group of Fellows of the period who endowed priests to sing in King's College Chapel. [4] For this gift of 160 marks Plente was listed as a benefactor of King's, [5] and its terms included a requirement that he should be commemorated annually (it is not clear that he was in fact buried at Exeter, rather than King's). [6] A bequest of his own to Sir John Atkins led to his being remembered also (will of Atkins from 1487). [7] [8]

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References

  1. ”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists:Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy,G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900
  2. Venn database entry
  3. David Lepine (1995). A Brotherhood of Canons Serving God: English Secular Cathedrals in the Later Middle Ages. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 171. ISBN   978-0-85115-620-0 . Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  4. Charles Henry Cooper (22 March 2012). Memorials of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN   978-1-108-04394-6 . Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  5. Thomas Fuller (1840). The history of the University of Cambridge ... to the year 1634, ed. by M. Prickett and T. Wright. p. 152. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  6. Collectanea Cantabrigiensia, or Collections relating to Cambridge, University, town, and county,: containing the monumental inscriptions in all the chapels of the several colleges, and parish churches in the town, and in several others in the county; with a list of the mayors; the most ancient charters of the town; and other historical memoirs of several colleges, &c. Printed for the author, at his house in St. Giles's parish in the city of Norwich. 1751. p. 130. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  7. Peckham, W. D. (1948). "Some Chichester Wills, 1483–1504". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 87: 1–28. doi: 10.5284/1085407 .
  8. Gordon Mursell (1 September 2001). English Spirituality: From Earliest Times to 1700. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 200. ISBN   978-0-664-22504-9 . Retrieved 27 May 2012.
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Preceded by Archdeacon of Lewes
14781483
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