He was recommended to Bishop John Parkhurst by the mayor and some of the aldermen of Norwich, with reasons excusing Harrison for having raised an objection to the use of the service of the Book of Common Prayer at his marriage.
Parkhurst made difficulties, including that the liturgical offence had been in the face of warnings; but finally gave way after an appeal from inhabitants of Aylsham.
Within a month of his appointment Harrison requested that changes might be made in the baptismal service on the occasion of his being godfather to an infant, and he was removed by the bishop in January 1574.
According to Browne's narrative, Harrison came completely over to his views, and the two spent all their energies in preaching and collecting a congregation at Norwich.
[1] In April 1581 Bishop Edmund Freke of Norwich sent formal articles of complaint against Browne and Harrison to Lord Burghley, and the whole congregation decided to migrate to Middelburg in Zeeland in the autumn of that year.
Harrison as head of the congregation, made an unsuccessful effort to join it to the Conforming Church of English merchants presided over by Thomas Cartwright and Dudley Fenner.