 On Low Sunday 1563 he gave the annual Spittal sermon, and on 23 June of the same year, allowing himself conformable to the discipline which was then being established, was elected dean of Salisbury by letters from Queen Elizabeth, in the place of the Italian Peter Vannes.Here he was a contemporary of John Foxe and Thomas Harding.From 1568 to 1576 he was the prebendary of Horningsham at Heytesbury, Wiltshire.