 He was proctor of the university in 1607, and admitted bachelor of law on 11 October 1623.In 1613 and 1614 he travelled abroad, securing the Italian text of the "History of the Council of Trent" which he was to translate.In 1616 he was in the Hague with Dudley Carleton, ambassador there, who wrote about Brent's ambitions to Ralph Winwood.