Career
After a legal training, he was knighted in 1628. He had an estate at Great Wigsell, but only briefly. He bought in 1650 Elmley, Worcestershire.
Being later disinherited, he became heavily indebted.
Of the Hartlibians, he had most to do with Benjamin Worsley. While on the Parliamentarian side, he was a moderate, against the more theocratic tendencies.
