 In the summer of the same year (25 June 1679) he succeeded the Rev.John Marsh in the lectureship at St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne the parish church).He stayed in Newcastle in 1682 when he was offered the vicarage of Coleshill in Warwickshire, but recommended John Kettlewell for the vacancy; and remained in Newcastle, now with an added post at St Ann's as lecturer, or preacher, a post in the gift of the city's Common Council.