In August 1608 according to Thoresby,[2] but in March 1618 according to Wood, he was made warden of St. Mary Magdalen's Hospital at Ripon, Yorkshire.
Favour died on 10 March 1623–4, and was buried in the chancel of Halifax Church, where on a pillar on the south side of the choir is an inscription to his memory (Watson, Hist.
As an instance of the ignorance of the people when the Bible was withheld from them by the "Romanists", he relates at page 334 a story of a woman who, when she "heard the passion of Christ read in her owne tongue", wept bitterly.
"After some pause and recollection of her spirits, she asked where this was done, & when: it was answered, many thousand miles hence at Ierusalem, and a great while ago, about fifteene hundred yeares.
Then (quoth she) if it was so farre off, and so long ago, by the grace of God it might proue a lye, and therein she comforted her selfe."