 He was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, admitted to Gray's Inn on 5 November 1602 and called to the bar in 1609.In March 1643 he was appointed, against his will, as puisne judge of the Carmarthen circuit of the court of great sessions.He was a strong supporter of the Royalist cause in the civil war and, later that year, was involved in raising money for the siege of Gloucester.