He resumed his chaplaincy the next year, and left Smyrna on 10 February 1701–2, taking his homeward journey by Gallipoli and Adrianople where he joined Lord Paget, who was returning from an embassy to the Sublime Porte.
Travelling as a member of the ambassador's household, Chishull passed through Bulgaria, Wallachia, Transylvania, Hungary, and Germany to Holland.
Chishull soon afterwards became lecturer of St Olave Hart Street; he married and resigned his fellowship.
[4] He published copiously as a scholar, particularly Latin verses, numismatical works, notes from his travels, and his Antiquitates Asiaticae (1728).
The Antiquitates was a collaborative work involving William Sherard, Antonio Picenini, Joseph de Tournefort among others.