[1] He was educated at Oxford University (probably Gloucester Hall now Worcester College) where he took his degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1515.
[4] In November, 1538, Beche denied the legal right of Henry VIII's royal commission to confiscate his abbey.
The Abbot's servant said that his master denied that the king could suppress the Abbey because it was above the yearly value of 300 marks specified in the statute.
[2] Other witnesses testified that Beche had said that God would "take vengeance for the putting down of these houses of religion", that Fisher and More "died like good men and it was pity of their deaths", and he claimed that the king had broken with the Catholic Church because he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn.
[1] His pectoral cross was rescued by the Mannock family of Giffords Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland, who entrusted it to Buckfast Abbey in Devon, where it still remains.