Richard Perrinchief

Richard Perrinchief or Perrincheif (c. 1620 – 1673) was an English royalist churchman, a biographer of Charles I, writer against religious tolerance, and archdeacon of Huntingdon.

The son of a carpenter of Aldersgate, London, he was educated at Christ's Hospital, and matriculated as a sizar at King's College, Cambridge in 1638.

Under his will the executors, William Clark, dean of Winchester, and Robert Peacock, rector of Long Ditton, Surrey, purchased land, the rents of which were to be given in perpetuity to the vicars of Buckingham.

Perrinchief wrote, besides sermons: Perrinchief also completed the edition prepared by William Fulman of Bασιλικά: the Workes of King Charles the Martyr, with a collection of declarations and treaties, London, 1662, and compiled a life for it from Fulman's notes and some materials of Silas Titus.

; and was included in the 1727 edition of the Eikon Basilike, as 'written by Richard Perencheif, one of his majesties chaplains.'