A native of Worcestershire, he was educated at St Catharine Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A.
on 14 March 1649, he was licensed as a preacher and officiated at St Aldate's Church in Oxford and afterwards at Brackley in Northamptonshire.
He afterwards returned to England and for some time taught logic and philosophy to pupils near Stourbridge in Worcestershire, but went again to Holland and preached for several years in the English church at Leyden.
[2] He wrote in defence of nonconformity and had fierce controversies with Thomas Pierce, dean of Salisbury, John Durel, Peter Heylyn, Matthew Scrivener, Laurence Womack and other churchmen.
O., Bachelour of Arts,’ published ‘Fratres in Malo, or the Matchless Couple, represented in the Writings of Mr. E. Bagshaw and Mr. H. Hickman.’ [2]