After being examined, he was soon discharged, and his property restored to him, though he received strict injunctions not to join his father.
[3] For many years he lived at Lockington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, engaged in scientific pursuits.
As justice of the peace he officiated at the marriage of his brother Charles at Wigan on 15 September 1656.
He died in the parish of St James, Westminster, in 1691, and was buried in the church [4] He wrote a "Life of Jacob Boehme", published in two different editions in 1654, interesting for its literary style.
His translation of his brother Charles's "Ad Philosophiam Teutonicam Manuductio" was issued in 1650 as "englished by D. F".