A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Belchier, Daubridgcourt

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 29 June, 1601.

Son and heir of William Belchier, of Guyllesburgh (Guilsborough), co. Northampton. He was educated at Oxford, where he took his degree of B.A., 9 Feb. 1600. He settled in the Low Countries, where he wrote a Comedy entitled Hans Beer Pot, which was published in London in 1618. As it appeared anonymously it was attributed at first to Thomas Nash. He wrote several other plays, but they were never printed. He died at Utrecht in 1621.