Background
Son of a carpenter of Aldersgate, London, he was educated at Christ"s Hospital, and matriculated as a sizar at King"s College, Cambridge in 1638.
biographer Prebendary royalist churchman
Son of a carpenter of Aldersgate, London, he was educated at Christ"s Hospital, and matriculated as a sizar at King"s College, Cambridge in 1638.
He moved to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts 1642, and Master of Arts
1645. He was ejected from his fellowship by the parliamentary commissioners under the ordinance of 13 February 1646, in 1650. At the Restoration he became rector of Street Mildred, Poultry in London, to which Street Mary Colechurch was annexed in 1671. He proceeded Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge on 2 July 1663.
On 3 November
1664 he was installed prebendary of Saint Peter"s, Westminster, and on 2 August 1667 prebendary of London (Chiswick stall). On 29 March 1670 he was collated to the archdeaconry of Huntingdon. He was also sub-almoner to Charles World War II He died at Westminster on 31 August 1673, and was buried on 2 September in the abbey.
Under his will the executors, William Clark, dean of Winchester, and Robert Peacock, rector of Long Ditton, Surrey, purchased land, the rents of which were to be given in perpetuity to the vicars of Buckingham.