He passed most of his time in his library at Aynhoe, and, according to William Whiston, Richard Bentley thought him the second scholar in England.
Part of his library was acquired by his successor at Aynhoe, Dr. Francis Yarborough, later principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1745–1770).
The edition of Thucydides by Karl Andreas Duker and Wasse was published in 1731 at Amsterdam, and was reprinted at Glasgow in 1759 with the Latin version by Robert and Andrew Foulis.
[1] One topic he investigated was the production of lightning bolts with gunpowder;[3] he had attended experimental philosophy lectures by Roger Cotes and William Whiston at Cambridge.
[4] Wasse became a proselyte to Samuel Clarke's Arian opinions, and in 1719 published Reformed Devotions, dedicated to Cartwright and his wife.