(Edmund), sergeant-at-law, was the son of Humphrey Plowden of Plowden in Shropshire, of an ancient and genteel family. He was first a student of the university of Cambridge, where he spent three years in the study of philosophy and medicine. He then removed to Oxford, where, having continued his former studies about four years more, in 1552 he was admitted to the practice of physic and surgery; but probably finding the practice of the art of healing less agreeable than the study, he entered himself of the Middle Temple, and began to read law. Wood says, that in 1557 he was summer reader to that society, and Lent-reader three years after, being then serjeant and oracle of the law. He died in the year 1584, aged 67; and was buried in the Temple-church, near the north-wall, at the east-end of the choir. He married the daughter of William Sheldon of Boley in Worcestershire; by whom he had a son, who died soon after his father. He wrote, 1. Commentaries or Reports of divers Cases, &c., in the reigns of King Edw. VI. Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth; London, 1571, 78, 99, 1613, &c. Written in the old Norman language. 2. Queries, or a Moot-book of cases, &c., translated, methodized, and enlarged, by H. B. of Lincoln's-Inn; Lond. 1662, 8vo.