 On 23 December 1601 he was instituted by the college to the vicarage of Heckfield, Hampshire, which he resigned in January 1601–2.Two years later the college presented him to the vicarage of Chesterton, Oxfordshire, 15 November 1604, where he remained until 1610.Evans, who was ‘a noted preacher of his time in the university,’ published ‘Verba Dierum; or, the Dayes Report of God's glory.