[1] He was born in Coleraine, son of Thomas Vesey, the local rector.
His grandfather William Vesey had emigrated from Cumbria in the previous century.
[4] During the religious troubles in the reign of King James II of England, he and his diocese suffered greatly: his cattle were driven off and attempts were made to burn his cathedral.
Finally, fearing that their lives were in danger, he and his wife and twelve children fled to London in late 1688, where he obtained a poorly paid lectureship.
[5] He died at Hollymount, County Mayo, in the large and comfortable house that he had built after the Episcopal palace at Tuam was burnt during his exile in England.