Officials: Pennant, Henry

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HENRY PENNANT

Notary Public and Deputy Registrar of the diocese

HENRY PENNANT

Notary Public and deputy to Randle Cotgrave, Registrar of the diocese

Qualifications: Notary Public

Career: Deputy Registrar of the diocese from at least 1572, he sometimes acted as promoter in promoted office causes. By the 1580s he had begun to act as a proctor.

Henry Pennant’s signature from EDC 5/1576/43

Notes: He copied some lines of poetry into the last surviving page of one of his account books. These lines formed part of Jasper Heywood’s 1560 translation of Seneca’s play Thyestes.

Sources:

Cheshire Sheaf, 3rd series, xii, pp. 6-7, 12.

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