Miles Spencer (priest)

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Miles Spencer was an English priest and academic in the first half of the 16th century. [1]

Spencer was educated at the University of Oxford. [2] He held livings at Soham and Terrington. He was Archdeacon of Sudbury from 1537 until his death. [3] and Archdeacon of Norwich from 1522 to 1528. [4]

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References

  1. VBritish History On-line
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Spackman-Stepney
  3. Horn, Joyce M., ed. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 7, pp. 49–50
  4. Horn, pp44-46