He was elected a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1553, a probationer fellow of All Souls' in 1558, when he graduated B.A.
At Oxford he studied both divinity and medicine, and remained to tend the plague-stricken during the severe epidemic of 1563–64.
He subsequently obtained a living at Banbury, where he also opened a school and practised medicine.
At Christmas-time 1558 he was seriously assaulted by a number of his parishioners belonging to the hamlet of Wickham[a] who refused to come to church.
His assailants, who preferred "dancing, or some other like pastime" to church-going, were charged with recusancy before the privy council in March 1588–89.