He combined Puritan views, including the need for capital punishment for adultery,[1] with a positive outlook on alchemy and experimental science.
On 22 October 1566 he was presented to the rectory of St. Antholin, Budge Row, London, and in 1575 he became rector of Hasketon, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
He appears to have held the rectory of St. Antholin until 12 October 1592, when Nicholas Felton was appointed his successor.
In 1570 he published his first work, a translation from the Latin of John Brentius, entitled Newes from Niniue to Englande (London).
He published: Tymme also made a new edition of A Looking-Glasse for the Court (1575), translated by Sir Francis Bryan in 1548 from an original by Antonio de Guevara.