Background
He was born in London in 1599, and became either a clerk or a chorister of All Souls" College, Oxford, in 1614.
He was born in London in 1599, and became either a clerk or a chorister of All Souls" College, Oxford, in 1614.
He matriculated on 10 October 1617, and migrated to Street Mary Hall, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts 20 April 1618, and commenced Master of Arts
He is credited with the first worked-out attack on Calvinistic doctrine by an English churchman. In 1621. He became chaplain to Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who presented him in 1626 to the rectory of Moreton, near Ongar, Essex. On 15 June 1630 he was admitted Bachelor of Divinity at Oxford.
In 1637 he was collated to the prebend of Willesden in the church of Street Paul.
He died on 15 February 1657 Old Style in the Calendar (in Great Britain before 1752), and was buried in the chancel of Moreton Church. Wood says he was "well read in the fathers and schoolmen, was a good disputant and preacher, a zealous Calvinist in the beginning, but a greater Arminian afterwards".