Charles Plummer, FBA (1851–1927) was an English historian and cleric, best known as the editor of Sir John Fortescue's ''The Governance of England'', and for coining the term "

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". He was the fifth son of Matthew Plummer of

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, Sussex. He matriculated at

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in 1869, graduating B.A. and S.C.L. in 1873 and becoming a Fellow.

Works

Plummer was an editor of

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, and also edited numerous Irish and Hiberno-Latin texts, including the two volume ''Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae'' (1910), a modern companion volume to which is Richard Sharpe's ''Medieval Irish saints' lives: an introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae''. Plummer edited John Earle's ''Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel'' (1865), producing a ''Revised Text'' with notes, appendices, and glossary in 1892. This work presented the A and E texts of the ''

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''. Plummer delivered the

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in 1901.

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Irish texts
*''Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae'' (1910)
Vol. 1
an
vol. 2
available from the Internet Archive.
''Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel'' (1892).
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