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The Venerable Thomas Pylcher

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

R.H. D'exslboux
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In the Sussex County Magazine of May 1942, the Reverend L.E. Whatmore gave an account of “Thomas Pilchard of Battle (1557-87),” Elizabethan martyr of Dorchester. There is no doubt that this martyr’s name was Thomas Pylcher, and that his alias of Pilchard was adopted to serve the west coun1ry area of his apostolate.

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British Catholic History , Volume 3 , Issue 5 , January 1956 , pp. 334 - 337
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1956

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References

1. The following reference escaped him: Foley's Records Vol.2, p.720, “The Lady West, of Winchester, keepeth amongst others, Pilcher alias Foster”; and on p.722, “Pilcher alias Forster yet at Liberty.” These date from 1583, and refer to the martyr's first return as a priest.

2. The next book of wills commences at 1731.

3. There is a will of Thomas Pilcher 1593, of Battle, Sussex and Ash ford, Kent (P.C.C. 57 Nevell) which I have not examined.

4. The Chronicle of Battle Abbey, A. Lower, p.23.

5. Thorpe's Catalogue of Battle Deeds, p. 102,

6. The Southwark Record Vol. XXVII, no.314, p.203.

7. Of Crowhurst; Knighted at Greenwich L604.

8. B.M. Lansdowne MSS 82, 49 f. 104.

9. Thorpe's Catalogue of Battle Deeds p. 147.