Background
He was born in Wiltshire in 1582, and was entered either as a servitor or batler of Saint Alban Hall, Oxford, in 1600.
He was born in Wiltshire in 1582, and was entered either as a servitor or batler of Saint Alban Hall, Oxford, in 1600.
Magdalen College.
He was elected demy of Magdalen College in 1600, and perpetual fellow of the college in 1611, being then M. A.
He was given the rich rectory of Mildenhall, Wiltshire. There he preached the tenets of the fifth-monarchy men, and occupied in ejecting ministers and schoolmasters such that were called ignorant and scandalous. On being turned out of his living after the Restoration, he set up a conventicle at Marlborough, Wiltshire.
There he died and was buried in the church of Saint Peter on 27 March 1663.