Before the close of 1566 he was dean of his college, and was elected senior proctor of the university on 20 April 1579, his colleague being Thomas Bodley.
[1] In September 1566, on the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Oxford, Bearblock prepared small drawings of all the colleges, the earliest of their kind, for each of which his friend Thomas Neal, Hebrew reader in the university, wrote descriptive verses in Latin.
Bearblock's drawings, with Neal"s verses, were engraved in 1713, at the end of Hearne's edition of Dodwell's De Parma Equestri Woodwardiana Dissertatio.
Bearblock wrote an elaborate account of the queen's visit to Oxford in 1566 under the title of Commentarii sive Ephemeræ Actiones rerum illustrium Oxonii gestarum in adventu serenissimae principis Elizabethæ.
The pamphlet was dedicated to Lord Cobham and to Sir William Petre, a munificent benefactor of Exeter College, but it was not printed until 1729, when Hearne published it in an appendix (pages 251-96) to his edition of the Historia et Vita Ricardi II.