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Edmund Plowden
1585Feb, 6

Edmund Plowden

Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and scholar (b. 1518)
Sir Edmund Plowden (1519/20 – 6 February 1585) was a distinguished English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist during the late Tudor period.

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