{{Short description|English priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''William Doune''' was a [[14th-century]] [[England|English]] [[priest]].<ref>[https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf University of Leicester]</ref>

Doune was [[ordained]] in 1342. He was [[Archdeacon of Leicester]]<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst |first1=John |last2=Hardy |first2=Sir Thomas Duffus |author1-link=John Le Neve |author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Archdeacons of Leicester |wslink=Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.2_body_of_work_part_1.djvu/73 |series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2 |year=1854 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=59–63 |wspages=65–69 }}</ref> from 1354 until his death in 1361.<ref>During this period there was a counter-claimant, ''Arnald de Gavarreto''</ref> He was a noted [[Religious pluralism|Pluralist]]. In 1860 his will was discovered,<ref>"The Medieval Canon Law: Teaching, Literature and Transmission" Owen, D.M. p68: Cambridge; CUP; 1990 {{ISBN|0-521-39313-2}}</ref> and it shows a man efficient in collecting his dues but whose conscience sometimes troubled him.

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==See also== * [[Diocese of Lincoln]] * [[Anglican Diocese of Peterborough|Diocese of Peterborough]] * [[Diocese of Leicester]] * [[Archdeacon of Leicester]]

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