In 1631 he was presented to All Saints' Church, Hertford by the Feoffees for Impropriations but had fled the country by 1637.
[1] In The Personall Reigne of Christ Upon Earth,[3] Archer made a number of predictions.
[4] He obtained this date by interpreting the 1260 days in Revelation 12:6 as years, and counting from 406, which is when he thought "the Bishop of Rome began to usurp Papall power, and about that time some of the 10.
Thirdly, Archer predicted that Christ would return in around 1700[5] – this date being calculated by taking the 1335 days of Daniel 12:12 as years, and counting from the end of Julian the Apostate's reign.
[2] Katherine Hermes suggests that Archer's book set the stage for the coalescence of the Fifth Monarchists in England.