On coming home he spent "welny three yeeres in some serious studies and certaine affaires" without using his Spanish.
At this point he fell into the company and acquaintance "of my especial good friend Edward Banister of Idesworth in the Countie of Southampton, Esquier".
It begins: 'The first leaf of this my will is written by my loving friend Mr. Bartholomew Young, which he wrote for me in my sickness.'
Anthony Wood thought that Bartholomew Young was the same who lived at Ashhurst in Kent, and died there in 1621.
Joseph Hunter identified him with a Bartholomew Young whose name occurs in the register of burials of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West on 25 September 1612.