In about 1306 Richard Frebern became vicar of All Saints Church, Fulbourne, Suffolk where he gave a gift of a chalice to the church.
In 1310 he became vicar of Hoxne until 1324 when he swapped with Peter de Tatington to become vicar of Thorpe Abbotts until he resigned in 1331 in favour of Bottisham.
Richard Frebern was presented, by the Prior of Anglesey, to the living of Bottisham in 1331 until he was succeeded in 1338 by Adam, cannon de Long Stanton. Anglesey is in the parish of Bottisham in Cambridgeshire.