[1] After taking his BA degree from St Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1608, he went into Cheshire to act as tutor to the children of Lady Cholmondeley.
He adopted Puritan views, and after being ordained without subscription, was appointed to the small curacy of Whitmore in Staffordshire.
He was soon deprived by John Bridgeman, the high church bishop of Chester, who put him to much suffering.
His Treatise of Faith (1632), and Friendly Trial of the Grounds tending to Separation (1640), the latter of which defines his position with regard to the church, are also valuable.
[1] His A Tryall of the New-Church Way in New-England and Old, written in 1637 but published in 1644, was a reply to the responses of the New England puritans to nine questions which he had posed to them concerning the constitution and doctrine of their churches.