On 30 December 1601 he was installed dean of Chichester, and in the same year received the rectory of Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, resigning his fellowship in 1602.
In 1606 he was appointed vicar of Amport, Hampshire; in 1607 a canon of Chichester and rector of Birdham, Sussex.
John Drusius dedicated to him Opuscula quae ad Grammaticam spectant (1609), and Charles Fitzgeffrey devotes an epigram to him in his Affaniae sive Epigrammatum libri tres (1601).
The recommendation explicitly mentions Thorne's involvement as a translator "of that parte of the olde Testament which is committed to that Universitie" (i.e., Oxford).
Moreover, it is entirely plausible that the former regius professor of Hebrew at Oxford and the King's chaplain would have been involved in the project.