Richard Arche Explained

Richard Arche (also Archer) LL.B., D.C.L. was a Canon of Windsor from 1538 to 1553^[1]

Career

He was appointed:

• Vicar of Ramsbury, Wiltshire 1518
• Vicar of Avebury, Wiltshire 1520
• Principal of Broadgates Hall, now Pembroke College, Oxford 1526
• Chaplain to Henry VIII of England 1538
• Rector of Hanney, Berkshire 1543
• Treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral 1551
• Prebendary of Faringdon in Salisbury Cathedral 1524
• Rector of Clewer 1554

He was appointed to the ninth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1538, a position he held until 1553, when he was deprived of the living. He was a confessor to the Windsor Martyrs.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
2. http://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxintro.htm Foxe's Book of Martyrs