was an English priest, a leading Puritan preacher of his time, who was also active in agitating for reform of the Church of England.
In 1584 he was suspended for refusing to subscribe to John Whitgift's articles, but shortly afterwards he was active in promoting the Book of Discipline.
He remained in his cure at Blackfriars till his death, which took place about 1621, being assisted in his latter years by William Googe, who succeeded him.
Among those of his works still extant are A Brief Method of Catechising, first issued in 1594, which in 1644 reached a forty-fourth edition; and a translation from the French of Mathieu Virel entitled A Learned and Excellent Treatise containing all principal Grounds of the Christian Religion, the earliest edition of which now remaining is the fourth, published in 1597, and the latest the fourteenth in 1635.
In addition to his own books he wrote introductions for several publications by his fellow puritans, including Richard Rogers, Robert Pricke, Baine, and Nicholas Byfield.