In that year he went abroad as travelling companion to Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos; and on his return to England Wheare continued to live with him.

He was then permitted to occupy lodgings with his wife in Gloucester Hall, Oxford, where he became a close friend of Thomas Allen.

[1] Through the influence of Allen with William Camden, the founder of the chair, Wheare was appointed on 16 October 1622 the first professor of modern history at Oxford, and he became principal of Gloucester Hall on 4 April 1626, where he expanded the student population.

[1] His most significant work was entitled De Ratione et Methodo Legendi Historias (Of the Reason for and Method of Reading Histories) published in October 1623.

[3] This was in origin his inaugural address for the new chair, in which he laid out a schema for the study of secular history, which found such a positive response that it went through many editions and expansions in the next decades.