[1] He composed pieces for members of the Elizabethan aristocracy, and had a long association with the Kitson family, who had houses in London and Hengrave, Suffolk.
He appears in documentary records relating to the beginning of the seventeenth century.
With John Wilbye he corrected the proofs of Dowland´s Second Book of Songs, which was published in London in 1600.
He was also mentioned in connection with arrangements for the funeral of his patron Sir Thomas Kitson, an event which took place in Hengrave in 1603.
[2] Perhaps his best-known work is "Eliza Is the Fairest Queen" (a tribute to Elizabeth I).