Richard Fletcher (bishop of London)

See also: Fletcher

Richard Fletcher , priest Anglican.

It was charged in 1587 to accompany Marie Stuart with the scaffold, and showed against this queen a fanatic animosity. When the head had been sliced, he exclaimed: " Perishes thus all the enemies of Elisabeth " .

II was made, in reward of its zeal, bishop of Bristol, then of London. However he died disgraced, in 1596. This priest had married twice. His/her son is the playwright John Fletcher.

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