Only in 1578 did he manage to matriculate at St Mary Hall, Oxford, where he apparently graduated, as he was termed a master of arts in 1584.
Four years later he was fined because his clerk was found to be illiterate and local parents had ceased to send their children to catechism classes.
It has also been credited with influencing a later play, Grim the Collier of Croydon, acted by Pembroke's Men at Henslowe's Rose Theatre on 28 October 1600.
[4] In 1575 Fulwell published a pro-Tudor piece of writing, The Flower of Fame dedicated to William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
The criticisms were stringent enough for him to be ordered by the courts to make a recantation on 7 July 1576 before Gilbert Berkeley, Bishop of Bath and Wells.