Venn: Adm. sizar at Sidney, Sept. 25, 1606. B. 1590. Matric. 1606; B.A. from Magdalene, 1610-1. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) June 7; priest, Dec. 20, 1612. C. of Nailstone, Leics., in 1613. C. (or preacher) of Gorton, Lancs., 1623-34. Occurs at Northenden, Cheshire, in 1643 and 1647. Minister of Sowerby Chapel, Yorks., 1645-62, ejected. Suffered imprisonment in York Castle for three months. Died Oct. 20, 1669, aged c. 80. Father of Timothy (1653-4). (Calamy, II. 576; Earwaker, 1. 294, 484.)