He was a native of Shropshire, was admitted pensioner of Queens' College, Cambridge, on 25 June 1595, graduated B.A.
as a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
During the period of the First English Civil War he ignored the Solemn League and Covenant, and continued to use the Book of Common Prayer.
His livings of Lexden and Steeple were sequestrated in 1644, but he resisted the sequestration and his successor Gabriel Wyresdale until 1647, when he was removed from the rectory at Lexden.
[3] He wrote a learned Answer to the Jewish Part of Mr. Selden's History of Tithes, Oxford, 1625, in answer to John Selden's history of tithes.