The Venerable Thomas Pylcher

Abstract

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.