appointed as one of six preachers at Canterbury Cathedral and the office as curate of Canterbury, and for his services to Parliament he was offered the living of the parish of Minster-in-Thanet in 1645. At his ordination, his parishioners locked the church against him, and when he attempted to break into the church he was mobbed and beaten. So despised was he that the parish refused to pay tithes to support him, but then offered his arrears if he would but go away. To this day, his name does not appear in the list of incumbents displayed in the church porch, he served as acting Dean of Rochester before his exit from the public eye. He later found himself under arrest in London, and, asked why he had destroyed the figure of Christ in the Cathedral windows and not that of the Devil, he merely replied that Parliament's orders were for the removal of the same and made no reference to Satan. Among his few critics was Henry De forte who argued Art Expressed Religious Emotion, it is recorded that Culmer's attitude changed towards Religious Art and spiritualism. Described as "odious for his zeal and fury", he survived in his position until 1660, shortly before the Restoration of Charles II. He then moved to Monkton, where he died at the Parsonage House on 20 March 1662, and was buried two days later in the parish church of Monkton, on the Isle of Thanet. Post death The above-mentioned family tree states that he married in 1639 to Miss Beeson, and again twenty years later to a Dutch woman, the widow Mrs. Bocher of Haarlem in Holland, "the country in which he died in 1669". This would appear to be based on a record in the International Genealogical Index, listing a Richard Culmer, 1612-1669, who married a "Mrs Bechor" of Haarlem. The will of a clerk called Richard Culmer, of Monkton, on the Isle of Thanet, was proved by his son-in-law Nicholas Roe. It mentions sons James & Richard, and daughters Anne, Katherine & Elizabeth, together with 'Margaret Culmer, my beloved wife' who is to receive an annuity. No mention is made of allotments in either St Peter's or Broadstairs; it appears that Joseph Culmer, of St Peter's, is owed £50. Some marshland in Monkton is mentioned, together with two very Large areas of land in Ireland bequeathed to his son James,