Thomas Chaundler
A playwright and illustrator. 1418-1490
A manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge depicts Chaundler presenting one of his plays to the Bishop of Bath, Thomas Beckynton in 1460.
Between 1463 and 1467, Chaundler served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
He is author of the following works: Collocutiones septem et allocutiones duae de laudibus Willelmi de Wykeham, Wintoniensis episcopi; c. 1460 Liber apologeticus de omni statu humanae naturae (A defence of human nature in every state)
References: Personenname des Mittelalters. Nomina Scriptorum Medii Aevi. compiled by Claudia Fabian at the Bavarian State's Library. Munich: Saur. 2000. p.124. Review of Thomas Chaundler, Liber Apologeticus, ed. Doris Enright-Clark Shoukri, in Medium Aevum 44 (1975), 327-29.