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| John PENNY LL.D. of Cambridge. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford [ Oxfordshire ]. A monk of the Abbey of St Mary-de-Pratis, Leicester [ Leicestershire ], 1477 ; abbot, 1496 . Prior of Bradley [???], 1503 . Abbot of St Mary, Leicester [ Leicestershire ], 1503 . Bishop of Bangor [ Caernarvonshire ], 1504 ; and of Carlisle [ Cumberland ], 1508 . Died 1519-20 ; buried in Leicester Abbey [ Leicestershire ]; the tomb was afterwards moved into St Margaret's Church, Leicester [ Leicestershire ]. ( Cooper, I. 22; Le Neve, Fasti, I. 103; Al. Oxon.; D.N.B. ) | John PENNY Approx. lifespan: 1421–1519 LL.D. of Cambridge. Educated at Lincoln College [Oxford] A monk of the Abbey of St Mary-de-Pratis Leicester, [ Leicestershire ] 1477 ; abbot 1496 Prior of Bradley, ??? 1503 Abbot of St Mary Leicester, [ Leicestershire ] 1503 Bishop of Bangor, [ Caernarvonshire ] 1504 ; and of Carlisle, [ Cumberland ] 1508 Died 1519-20 ; buried in Leicester Abbey, [ Leicestershire ] ; the tomb was afterwards moved into St Margaret's Church Leicester, [ Leicestershire ] ( Cooper I. 22; Le Neve, Fasti I. 103; Al. Oxon.; D.N.B. ) |
| John PENNY Approx. lifespan: 1421–1519 Updated from Venn I Canon, Austin. Abbey of S. Mary de Pré, Leicester, by 1477 Stated by Bp Godwin to have been an alumnus of Lincoln College [Oxford], but no authority given [ De Praesulibus Angliae, edn 1743, p. 770] there is no mention of him in the extant records of Lincoln College [Oxford] Said to have been D.C.L. of Cambridge [ AC ] but the conferment of a doctorate is not recorded in the Grace Books: the University made him a present of 6 s. 8 d. in 1506-07 [ CUGBk Β, i. 218] Abbot of Leicester, el. 1496:06:25 ; royal assent signified 1 July; continued in commendam after promotion to see of Bangor; vac. 1508 [A.H. Thompson, Leicester Abbey, 73-4; CPR 1494-1509, pp. 56, 77, 625] prior of Bradley, Leicestershire , in commendam, adm. 1503:09:14 ; vac. 1509:01:18 [Reg. Smith, Lincolnshire . xxiii, fo. 262] bp of Bangor, by pap. provn, 1505:08:30 ; till translation [Eubel, iii. 143] bp of Carlisle, bull of transln 1508:09:22 ; till death [ ibid. iii. 168; le Neve, iii. 240; Dunbartonshire , article by W.A.J. Archbold; C.M.L. Bouch, Prelates and People of the Lake Counties, 169-72] d. 1519 or 1520 Buried in S. Margaret's, Leicester: table tomb with alabaster effigy on N. side of the high altar. |