After this he became Dean of Rochester on 8 February 1724, succeeding on the death of Samuel Pratt, and was elected bishop of St. David's, congé d'élire issued on 17 December 1731.
He was allowed to hold in commendam the rectories of Shobrooke and of Overton in the diocese of Winchester.
He published Articles of Enquiry for the Archdeaconry of Buckingham, 1732, and eleven sermons.
One was preached before the House of Lords on the anniversary of Charles I's martyrdom, another on the consecration of Bishop White.
A Persuasive to an ingenuous trial of Opinions in Religion (1685), sometimes ascribed to him, belongs rather to his father.