He was second son of Anthony Sclater, who is said to have held the benefice of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire for fifty years, and to have died in 1620, aged 100.
[1] He graduated M. A., and was admitted to priest's orders in 1599, shortly after which he left Cambridge and served a curacy at Walsall.
were printed in London in 1611, and passed to a second edition; they had a strong puritan bias.
On 4 September 1604 he was preferred to the rectory of Pitminster, Somerset; after some resistance, he accepted the ceremonies and the surplice which he had rejected in his former diocese.
Besides several volumes of sermons, Sclater was author of four exegetical and other works, which were published posthumously under the editorship of his son William: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Sclater, William (1575-1626)".