Education
He was educated and became a fellow at Queens" College, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest in February 1635.
priest Bishop of Exeter Bishop of Norwich
He was educated and became a fellow at Queens" College, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest in February 1635.
He was Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Exeter. He was an adherent to the Laudianism movement. In April 1644 under the parliamentarian purge of the university, he was ejected for non-residence by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester.
In 1647, he was ejected from rectory of Hawkedon for using the outlawed Book of Common Prayer.
Following the Restoration, he was reinstated in 1660. And held the post of Archdeacon of Sudbury from then until 1667.
In 1667, he became Bishop of Exeter and in 1676 he was promoted to bishop of Norwich. In his will, he left £100 to the rebuilding of Street Paul"s Cathedral.