[2] Lever was educated at St John's College, Oxford,[3] receiving his bachelor's degree in 1547-48,[4] before receiving his doctorate from Cambridge University.
[2] Lever is the author of the second treatise on logic written in English, The Arte of Reason, rightly termed, Witcraft.
[5] He also wrote a treatise on Rithmomachia, The Most Noble auncient, and learned playe, called the Philosophers game, which was published (without his consent) in 1563.
[6] He held livings at Washington and Stanhope.
[7] At the time of his death, he was master of Sherburn Hospital.