 He was soon put into the sequestered rectory of St. Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, London (he was probably ordained by the sixth London "classis"), and held it till the Uniformity Act of 1662 ejected him.He retired to Hoxton, where he preached privately, and at the same time assisted Thomas Doolittle in his school at Bunhill Fields.During 1665, the year of the Great Plague of London, he preached constantly in parish churches.