PLOWDEN, Edmund (1519/20-85), of the Middle Temple, London; Plowden, Salop; Shiplake, Oxon. and Burghfield, Berks.

Family and Education

b. 1519 /20, 1st s. of Humphrey Plowden of Plowden by Elizabeth, da. of John Sturry of Rossall, Salop, wid. of William Wollascott. educ. ?Camb. and Oxf.; M. Temple. m. Catherine, da. of William Sheldon of Beoley, Worcs., 3s. 2da. suc. fa. 10 Mar. 1558.Aged 19 on entry into M. Temple. Plowden, Commentaries (1779), preface p. iii. B. M. Plowden, Plowden Fam. 16; Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 448; PCC 20 Noodes, 54 Brudenell; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. lii. 179, 183; Recusant Hist. xiii. 172 n. 1; DNB; information from G. de C. Parmiter.

Offices Held

Autumn reader, M. Temple 1557, Lent 1560, treasurer 1561–70.

Steward, manor of Greenham, Berks. 1550; member, council in the marches of Wales 1553; dep. chief steward, duchy of Lancaster, south parts 1557, under steward 1558 – d.; j.p.q. Glos., Herefs., Salop, Worcs. 1554; j.p. Berks. 1558/59, q. 1561, rem. 1569; other commissions, Berks. etc. 1564–76.E315/221/308; CPR, 1553–4, pp. 19, 20, 23, 26; 1560–3, p. 434; Somerville, Duchy, i. 432; HMC 11th Rep. VII, 224; APC, ix. 311–12; R. O’sullivan, Edmund Plowden (Autumn reading, M. Temple 1952), 13.

Parlimentarian

PLOWDEN, Edmund (1519/20-85), of the Middle Temple, London; Plowden, Salop; Shiplake, Oxon. and Burghfield, Berks.

Main residence: the Middle Temple, London; Plowden, Salop; Shiplake, Oxon. and Burghfield, Berks.

Author

T.F.T.B.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

PLOWDEN, Edmund (1519/20-85)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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