He became the master of the school at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, brought there by Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon.
Brinsley was close to Arthur Hildersham, a local Puritan minister who at this period ended in the Fleet Prison for his views.
[7] Brinsley recommended Ovid, and the Raphael Regius edition, in A Consolation for our Grammar Schooles.
[8][9] In the same work he advocates a more sympathetic approach to teaching, and teacher training, in several anticipations of the views of Comenius.
[6] His Posing of the Parts[10] was recommended by Samuel Hartlib in a 1635 survey of systematic reading methods.