John Plemth (alternative spellings include Plente, Plenth, Plenty, Plentith and Plentyth) was the
Archdeacon of Lewes from 1478 until his death in 1483.[1]
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]
References
^”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists:Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy,G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900