Christopher Plummer (priest)

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Christopher Plummer (fl. 1490s – 1530s) was a Canon of Windsor from 1513 - 1535.[1] He was attainted and deprived in 1535.[2]

Career[]

He was appointed:

  • Prebendary of Auckland in Durham 1493
  • Prebendary of Bole in York Minster 1507
  • Prebendary of Cadington Major in St Paul’s 1515
  • Prebendary of Welton Beckhall in Lincoln 1533 - 1534
  • Prebendary of Somerley in Chichester 1516 - 1534

He was appointed to the fourth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1513, and held the stall until he was deprived of it in 1535. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1536 when he was granted a pardon of all treasons etc., whereof he is guilty or to which he is accessory against the King and Queen Anne according to Statute 26 Hen. VIII.[citation needed]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
  2. ^ A Survey of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Litchfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, Peterborough, Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Bangor, and St. Asaph: Containing an History of Their Foundations, Builders, Ancient Monuments, and Inscriptions; Endowments, Alienations, Sales of Lands, Patronages. Dates of Consecration, Admission, Preferment, Deaths, Burials, and Epitaphs of the Bishops, Deans, Precentors, Chancellors, Treasurers, Subdeans, Archdeacons, and Prebendaries ... With an Exact Account of All the Churches and Chapels in Each Diocese; Distinguished Under Their Proper Archdeaconries and Deanries; to what Saints Dedicated, who Patrons of Them, and to what Religious Houses Appropriated. The Whole ... Illustrated with Thirty Two Curious Draughts of the Ichnographies, Uprights, and Other Prospects of These Cathedrals. T. Osborne in Gray's Inn and T. Bacon in Dublin. 1742.
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