Career
He was admitted to the rectory of Street Mary-at-Hill, London, 31 May 1560, and was deprived of the living in 1574. He was the author of: 1. "A Godly Psalm of Mary Queen," with psalm tunes in four parts, 1553.
2.
"Alphabetum primum Beeardi," a poem of fifty-six short lines printed as a broadside, without date, by William Copland. 3. An untitled piece of verse of forty-four lines, signed by Beeard, beginning "M. Harry Whobals man to M. Camel greetes," printed on a sheet without place, printer"s name, or date. A copy of the first is in Trinity College Library, Cambridge, and copies of the last two are in the library of the Society of Antiquaries.
In Strype"s "Annals," iv.
512-516, the dedication to Queen Elizabeth I of a manuscript work by Richard Beard "concerning the doctrine of justification" is printed at length.
