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Christopher Plummer (priest)
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Christopher Plummer (fl. 1490s – 1530s) was a Canon of Windsor from 1513 to 1535.[1] He was attainted and deprived in 1535.[2]
The writer William Plomer claimed relationship with Plummer, referring to him as ""Christopher Plomer, a canon of Windsor... unfrocked and clapped into the Tower in 1535 for criticizing, as well he might, the behaviour of his royal master, Henry VIII".[3]
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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.[1] For opposing the king's divorce he was attainted and imprisoned in the Tower in 1534, but was pardoned two years later.[4]
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