John Legbourne was an English priest in the early 15th century.[1]

Elvet was born in Durham and was an executor of John of Gaunt.[2] The Master of the Jewel Office,[3] in 1424 he exchanged the benefice of Sedgefield for the Archdeaconry of Leicester with Richard Elvet.

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  1. ^ Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Leicester . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 59–63  – via Wikisource.
  2. ^ University of Leicester
  3. ^ Martin Holmes; Major-General H. D. W. Sitwell (1972). The English Regalia: Rheir History, Custody and Display. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 79–80. ISBN 978-0-1167-0407-8.

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