Leonard Mascall

His family was from Plumstead, Kent, and he became clerk of the kitchen in the household of Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury.

[1] Mascall died at Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, and was buried there on 10 May 1589.

Works written by, or generally attributed to, Mascall, are: He also drew up the Registrum parochiæ de Farnham Royal comit.

Buckingh., completed 25 June 1573, in which he inserted Thomas Cromwell's injunctions concerning parish registers, and prefixed some English verses on the subject.

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