Having been a scholar of Westminster, he was elected to a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1653.
He was one of the Terræ filii in the act held in St. Mary's Church, 1661, "at which time he showed himself sufficiently ridiculous".
He went up to London, where fell into poverty, begging from gentlemen in the streets, especially from Oxford men.
He was somewhat crazed, according to Wood, who met him by chance in 1675, and was perhaps annoyed by his importunity, for he writes with some bitterness of him.
Wood said he did not know "where his lean and macerated carcase was buried, unless in the yard of St. Clement's church, without Temple Bar".