 In this place he had difficulty with his people, some of whom, says Edmund Calamy, ‘ran things to a great height, and grew wiser than their minister’.Upon being silenced in 1662 he attended the ministry of John Angier at Denton, near Manchester, where, it is said, many of his old hearers who had disliked him much while he was their minister ‘were wrought into a better temper’.He died at Denton 9 Jan. 1664–5, aged 68, and was buried in the chapel there on the 13th.