He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, 16 December 1654, and graduated B.A.
[1] After the Restoraation he declined to obey the order of James Duport, the vice-master, to read the service-book in the college chapel, and was expelled from his office by Henry Ferne, the Master.
Having received presbyterian ordination, Scandrett was prosecuted in the ecclesiastical courts for preaching after having been silenced in 1662.
He was excommunicated, and afterwards sent to Bury and Ipswich gaols for preaching at Walsham-le-Willows.
Scandrett also published ‘Doctrine and Instructions, or a Catechism touching many weighty Points of Divinity,’ 1674.