He was presented to the livings of Over Worton, Oxfordshire, and Wootton, Northamptonshire, in 1620, and was preacher at Gray's Inn from 1635.
[4] During most of his tenure Oxford was the headquarters of the royalist forces; the college was almost empty and close to bankruptcy.
On 13 April he was deprived of the office of president by the parliamentary chancellor of Oxford, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke.
At the same time he was deprived of Garsington, a benefice attached to the presidency, and subsequently endured financial hardship.
He obtained the curacy of Broomfield, Somerset, but he was soon turned out, for reading The Book of Common Prayer.