Venn: atric. sizar from Trinity, 1615. Of Westmorland. Scholar, 1619; B.A. 1619-20; M.A. from Christ's, 1623. Fellow of Christ's, 1622-8. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) May 11; priest. May 12, 1623. Probably V. of Stukeley, Bucks., 1629. (Peile, 1. 312.)
In 1626 was chaplain to the admiral, Lord Willoughby, and was one of only two chaplains on the Re expedition in 1627 (BL, Harl. MS 383, fo. 39v; CSPD 1628-9, p. 40).