The Venerable Josiah Playdell (1641–1707) was an Anglican priest in England.Sussex people
Playdell was born in Newnham on Severn and educated at Queen's College, OxfordAlumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Peach-Peyton and King's College, CambridgeAlumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p365 Playdell was ordained in 1663 and became curate at Chipping Norton. He held livings at Cocking, Bristol, Lyminster and Nuthurst. He was Archdeacon of Chichester from 1679 until his death.
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