 Boys dedicated to him his next work, "An Exposition of the Festival Epistles and Gospels used in our English Liturgie", which, like its predecessors, was published in 4to, the first part in 1614, the second in the following year.Hitherto he had received but scant recognition of his services to the church, but preferment now began to fall upon him liberally.Abbot presented him with the sinecure rectory 
of Hollingbourne, then with the rectory of Monaghan in 1618, and finally, on the death of Dr Fotherby, he was promoted by King James I to the deanery of Canterbury, and installed on 3 May 1619.