 He was incorporated at Oxford on 10 March 1606.Between 1611 and 1621 he was secretary for nine years to John King, bishop of London, as well as professor of music at Gresham College from 1610 to 1638 (drafts of some of his lectures survive, as British Library, Sloane MS 2329).His ordination as deacon followed in London on 24 December 1620, then as priest on 13 March 1625.