Sexey's Hospital in Bruton, Somerset, England was built around 1630 as almshouses.

By the age of 43 he had been appointed Royal auditor of the Exchequer to King James I.

[3] After his death the trustees of his will established Sexey's Hospital in Bruton as an institution to care for the elderly.

A trust of 1638 set out the role of the hospital in caring for 12 poor men and women.

This later rose to 18 people, and it provided a school for 12 boys, and staff comprised a governor, a schoolmaster, and a nurse.