c 1480 born
1513 BCL and LLD at Oxford University
1522 Archdeacon of Norwich
1532 Dean of the St Mary Chapel in the Fields college (where the Assembly Rooms now are).The advowson of St George Tombland had been given to St Mary Chapel in the Fields college in the 13th century, and included 3 messuages, probably the land and buildings surrounding the church in what is now Tombland Alley, Princes Street, Tombland and Waggon and Horses Lane. It may have been that the hall type building now at the back of 26 Princes Street was the rectory of St George Tombland.
1537 was Chancellor of Norwich – Miles Spencer, LL. D. rector of Hevingham and Redenhall in Norfolk, vicar of Soham in Cambridgeshire, archdeacon of Sudbury; and the last dean of Chapel-field college, the revenues of which he not only alienated, but swallowed up, himself obtaining a grant of it; and many other things; as an annuity of 4l. 17s. 4d. from the priory, &c. He lived to the age of 90 years, for there is a picture of him now extant, drawn when he was so old; (fn. 33) and dying single, was buried in the cathedral, between the 6th and 7th south pillars, and over his grave is an altar tomb, covered with a sort of touch-stone, which is robbed of its brasses, and much split, but was formerly taken notice of, because people used to try their money upon it, and the chapter demanded certain rents to be paid on it. (fn. 34) https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol3/pp617-671#fnn36
1539 Dissolution of the monasteries – the chapel and college of St Mary in the Fields were surrendered to the crown and the chapel and cloister destroyed. The remaining buildings were granted Dr Miles Spencer, to be used as a private residence
Miles Spencer, LL. D. the last dean, who persuaded the college to resign for small pensions, having cunningly obtained the whole to himself and heirs, by grant from Henry VIII at its dissolution (Blomefield)
1550 Chancellor of Norwich
1554 Co-Chancellor of Norwich with Michael Dunning, the “bloody Chancellor” who undertook Marian persecutions. Deprived 13 married clergymen of their livelihoods.
1558 Canon of Norwich
1561 Chancellor
1562 Chancellor
1564 Dr Gascoigne buys St Mary in the Marsh for £80 from the Dean and Chapter (Miles Spencer) and the proceeds are divided up between Spencer and others. The church is pulled down.
by 1565 Miles Spencer sells 22-26 Princes Street to John and Elizabeth Clarke
1569 Chancellor
1569 died. Leaves the manor of Brandon and all land and tenements and other hereditaments to his nephew Robert Constable. Leaves property he bought from Roger Woodhouse to John Yaxley. Also property to Thomas Cornwallis. He also left money to his “friend”, Richard Fletcher (-1570), an alderman, sheriff and mayor who was considered to have Puritan leanings.
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