He attended the Bury Grammar School and was admitted a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, on 30 March 1665.
[1] He was made a fellow of Peterhouse in 1670 and ordained priest at Ely Cathedral on 18 September 1675.
Nicholas Battely died on 19 May 1704, shortly after the publication of his edition of Somner.
Battely also left in manuscript a history of Eastbridge Hospital;, after having been partially printed in John Strype's Life of Whitgift, it was published in John Nichols's Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vol.
Some notes by Battely on William Dugdale's Monasticon were used by John Lewis in his History of Faversham, 1727.