It is said that he had previously taught theology and Hebrew at Milan, and had also been professor of divinity both in Spain and at Louvain.
He graduated D.D., and was ‘always regarded as one of the ablest divines and controvertists of his time.’ In 1577 he was working in Yorkshire, and was soon afterwards committed as a prisoner to York Castle, where he engaged in a conference with Dean Hutton and other Church of England clergy.
In 1622 he was at Antwerp, where Marco Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, repeated before him the recantation of Protestantism formerly made to the pope's nuncio at Brussels.
[1] Wright has been very doubtfully credited with several religious tracts, which are said to have been published anonymously, but he has been confused with other writers with the same name.
It is probable that he was author of Certaine Articles discovering the Palpable Absurdities of the Protestants Religion (Antwerp, 1600), and The Substance of the Lord's Supper (1610, 12mo).