His later professional standing was affected by his religious beliefs, and then his non-juring attitude after the Glorious Revolution.
[1] The son of Edward Betts by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Venables of Rapley in Hampshire, he was born at Winchester.
Richard Middleton Massey recorded that Betts had been excluded from it, in the period from 1679 to 1684, of the Exclusion Crisis and Popish Plot repression.
On 1 July 1689 he was returned to the House of Lords as a "papist", and on 25 October 1692 was threatened with the loss of his place as an elect if he did not take the oath of allegiance to the king, William of Orange.
[2] Betts was dead on 15 May 1695, when Edward Hulse was named an elect in his place; and he was buried at St Pancras.