The warden and fellows of Merton College presented him to the rectory of Ibstone, Oxfordshire, in May 1658, and he commenced M.A.
Resigning his rectory in 1659, he came to London and was appointed reader in the Charterhouse School under Dr. Timothy Thurscross.
About 1663 he suffered six months' imprisonment at the suit of the Earl of Bridgewater, who resented Lloyd's publication of a work describing the late countess's virtues under the title The Countess of Bridgewater's Ghost, London, 1663.
Subsequently, he became chaplain to Dr. Isaac Barrow, bishop of St. Asaph, who gave him several preferments in that diocese and collated him to a canonry.
[3] On 14 Aug. 1671 he was instituted to the vicarage of Abergeley, Denbighshire, which he exchanged in 1672 for that of Northop, Flintshire, where he was also master of the free school.