[6] At the English Restoration he was replaced by Richard Sterne, apparently willingly.
[13]: 197 Worthington was an active correspondent of Samuel Hartlib, the "intelligencer", in the period 1655 to 1662.
[5] At Worthington's request, Hartlib's close collaborator John Dury searched in the Netherlands for the lost papers of Henry Ainsworth.
[14] He shared with Hartlib and Dury (and both Henry More and John Covel) an interest in the Karaites.
[17] After a period of nearly 300 years, the bundles into which he sorted it were rediscovered, and his system for the archive persists.