The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.

These were followed in 1693 by an annotated edition of the De institutione oratoria of Quintilian and in 1695 by a translation of William Camden's Britannia with additions and improvements for which he recruited a team of antiquaries including Edward Lhuyd William Lloyd and John Smith. In 1686 he was entered a scholar at Queen's College Oxford. He served as a founding governor of a charity called the Foundling Hospital.