In 1633 he was appointed by his college to the vicarage of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, and held it until his death; but for several years he continued to reside at Cambridge.
Great Gransden, civil parish and village in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England
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His father was a schoolmaster and later the vicar of Great Gransden, while his mother was the daughter of a self-made Cornish cloth manufacturer.