He exposed at Cambridge University, & became the Doctor of Music two there and at Oxford. He was choirmaster of Ely Cathedral from about 1543, resigning his post in 1561. He might keep around been music teacher to Edward VI.

His Latin church music includes masses (notably one according to a song "The Western Wynde", also a basis of people by John Taverner and John Sheppard) and psalm settings. He besides composed works within English for the Church of England, including services and anthems, and pieces for consorts of viols, including over twenty In Nomines.