His mother belonged to a respectable Cheshire family, and his maternal uncle was Sir Richard Morton.
Subsequently, he joined the expedition of the Earl of Essex to Spain, and 'after being tossed about by many storms' he returned to London, where he spent two years and a half in the service of Lord Henry Windsor.
He was ordained priest 20 December 1603, entered the Society of Jesus 18 November 1604, and three years later was sent upon the English mission.
After serving as a missioner in the Oxford district, he was appointed socius to the master of novices at Watten in 1633, and subsequently confessor at Liège and Ghent.
He was chaplain at Wardour Castle during its siege by Sir Edward Hungerford in 1643, took an active part in its gallant defence by Lady Blanche Arundel, and was employed in treating with the enemy for terms of honourable capitulation.
[3] A reprint, for the use of pilgrims to the holy spring, appeared in 1712, 12mo, sine loco, under the title of 'The Life and Miracles of St. Wenefride, Virgin, Martyr, and Abbess, Patroness of Wales.'