[1] In 1680, upon the removal of his brother to the preachership of Gray's Inn, he was elected preacher of St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, in his room, which office he held for nearly forty-six years.
Three years later he was also instituted to the rectory of Thurlow Parva in Norfolk, and in 1693 Dr. John Moore, then bishop of Norwich, who was well acquainted with his abilities and virtues, collated him to the archdeaconry of Sudbury.
He died in January 1727, and was buried in the chancel of the parish church in which he had been so long preacher.
He is reported to have been a good preacher, and a charitable and blameless man.
He had several children, among them being Nicholas Clagett, bishop of Exeter.