VCH Lancs., 6.241, gives date of institution 18 June 1562, and presentation 20 March 1561/2.
Of the family of Farnworth. Will dated and proved 1582, ordering his burial in Blackburn church and leaving a Geneva Bible to one of his executors. VCH claims that record of his successor records him as B.D., but not in surviving act book, and he is not in Venn or Foster.