He served as chaplain of Sir Thomas Burdet, in Derbyshire, for some time, and afterwards held the vicarage of Trinity Church in the King's Court at York.
[2][3] During the Commonwealth he held one of the four preacherships endowed by the Crown at the minster, besides the living of Allhallows, York.
He was ejected from his living in 1662, was banished from York by the Five Mile Act, and "withdrew to the good Lady Berwicks, near Tadcaster.
He had a son by whose extravagances he was much troubled, but found a congenial companion in his nephew James Calvert, and corresponded with the chief scholars of the time.
[2] His works were: Calamy and Palmer enumerate many other sermons, including one preached at the funeral of Lady Burdet, and a translation of Gerard's Schola Consolatoria.