 He was vicar of Reculver from 18 January 1594 until he resigned and was replaced on 5 October 1602.He was forced to leave his wife Elizabeth Edwards and two children Thomas & Elizabeth there in disgrace then, because of his wife's adulterous "seeing too much of one John Taylor".In 1606, he was forced to leave his second parish, at Heathfield, in Sussex, when he was accused of having his own adulterous affair with his servant, Thomasina Plumber, as well as "absenteeism, and neglecting of his congregation".