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Born about 1557, he was educated on the foundation at Westminster School, and was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1574. He graduated Bachelor of Arts on 12 November 1578, and Master of Arts
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On 3 March 1582, commenced Bachelor of Divinity on 27 April 1591. and was admitted Doctor of Divinity on 14 April 1600. In January 1587 he was presented by his college to the vicarage of Long Preston, Yorkshire, which he held until December 1588. He was next instituted to the rectory of Rampisham, Dorset, on 10 October 1595, and ceded it in 1601.
On 19 December 1599 he was made a prebendary of Christ Church Cathedral, and on 6 June 1601 received the vicarage of Flore, Northamptonshire, another college preferment, which he retained with his prebend until his death.
He was also subdean of Christ Church. He officiated at the opening of the Bodleian Library in 1602, and on 24 September of that year became vicar of Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire, a preferment which he resigned in 1604.
He was appointed by the king in 1604 one of the translators of the Bible. Apparently this was to the Second Oxford Company, but the exact composition of that company is still the subject of debate.
On 1 October 1609 he was installed a prebendary in Saint Paul"s Cathedral.
He died on 17 May 1632, aged 75, and was buried in the divinity (or Latin) chapel of Christ Church Cathedral.
