[2][3] He was later chaplain to Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, and a religious radical pursuing his own beliefs.
He lived for some years with the furnace-maker William White, and during the 1620s was in touch with Robert Fludd; he possessed copied manuscripts of Nicholas Hill.
He was brought before the Court of High Commission in 1636, when he was vicar of Fairstead, Essex, and charged with various heresies: Familism, Antinomianism, Anabaptism.
[4][5][6][7][8] His sermons, published posthumously, are between Martin Marprelate and Richard Overton in style.
[9] In the preface by Rapha Harford to Some Gospel-treasures Opened, the publisher places Evarard centrally on two axes, rationalist-formalist and Familist-Ranter.