Was rector of Settrington in Yorkshire, and was presented to the
archdeaconry of Ely by Elizabeth the 27th of February 1559-60. In bishop
Cox’s Certificatorium (MS. Bennet Col. Lib.) he is returned to the
archbishop as “a priest and B. D. usually residing upon his living of
Wilberton, appropriated to the archdeaconry, was qualified for preaching,
and licensed thereunto by the Queen’s majesty.”
He died, and was buried at Wilberton the 20th of September, 1568.
He is chiefly memorable for his metrical prayer intended to be sung in
the church against the Pope and the Turk, of whom he seems to have had
the most alarming apprehensions; and in consequence of which he has been
ridiculed by sir John Denham, Corbet, Butler, and others.