John de Feckenham

John de Feckenham (born c. 1515, Feckenham, Worcestershire, Eng.—died 1584/85, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire) was an English priest and the last abbot of Westminster. Feckenham was a monk at Evesham until that monastery was dissolved in 1540. He then returned for a time to Oxford, where he had formerly been educated, becoming in 1543 chaplain to Bishop Edmund Bonner of London. He shared Bonner’s disgrace for opposing Edward VI’s advancing Protestantism in 1549 and spent most of...