Education
He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, 18 July 1552.
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In 1552 he received the living of Blymhill, Staffordshire. He is described as "an able man, handsome and athletic, possessed of a fine clear voice, of ready speech and powerful utterance". He was made canon of Saint Paul"s and of Lichfield.
He became also Vicar of Todenham, Gloucestershire, and Saint Martin Outwich in London.
In 1556 he exchanged the latter living for Saint Stephen Walbrook. He was appointed chaplain to Bishop Edmund Bonner, for whom he wrote two homilies: "Of the Church what it is", and "Of the Authority of the Church".
John Foxe purports to record some of his discussions with persons charged with heresy, and states that on his death-bed he repented of his conversion.
