Background
Son of a father of the same names, of Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, he matriculated at Oxford as a student of Oriel College in 1634, and took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1638.
Son of a father of the same names, of Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, he matriculated at Oxford as a student of Oriel College in 1634, and took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1638.
He then left the university, and is said to have become a chaplain in the parliamentarian army and to have been an eager disputant. On the English Restoration he conformed.