[2] In May 1607 he was chosen Professor of Law at Gresham College, London, and he occupied that chair till November 1613.
On the death of John Cowell he was elected to succeed him in the mastership of Trinity Hall, on 12 October 1611, being at that time chancellor of the diocese of Chichester.
In 1626 he was appointed vicar-general and principal official to Samuel Harsnett the bishop of Norwich, and the following year he resigned the mastership of Trinity Hall.
He died on 28 May 1652, and was buried in the chancel of Belaugh church, Norfolk, where a monument, with a Latin inscription, was erected to his memory.
The portrait of him which was kept in the Master's Lodge at Trinity Hall was a bequest from Thomas Baker.