 There he passed the remainder of an uneventful life.In 1639 he and his brother John were summoned before the court of Star-chamber on the charge of possessing prohibited books.He acknowledged that he had possessed William Prynne's "Divine Tragedie", Matthew White's "Newes from Ipswich", and Henry Burton's "Apology of an Appeale", but pleaded that he no longer owned them.