[3] He was master of Magdalen School from 1542 to August 1548, when he became chaplain to John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, and tutor to his children.
It alarmed the university authorities, and Harley was hastily summoned to London to be examined on a charge of heresy; but when the king's views became known he was speedily liberated.
and vicar of Kidderminster in the same county, and incumbent of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, on the following 30 September.
In 1552 he was considered likely to succeed Owen Oglethorpe as president of Magdalen College, but he lost the election.
[3] On 26 May 1553 he was consecrated bishop of Hereford, but was deprived on 19 March 1554 for his Protestantism (DNB), or because he was married,[4] and died in 1558.