Little is
known about him, but he is known to have been living in Charlton
Musgrove near
Wincanton in 1595 where he was church warden.His first known
commission was for the design of Montacute House in c1598. This is one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in the country and was
designed for Sir Edward Phelips.
Other
works include the remodelling of a hunting lodge at Cranborne to form the Manor House
for Robert Cecil,
1st Earl of Salisbury in 1607–1610.He was then
commissioned in 1610–1613 by Dorothy
Wadham, a Somerset resident, to design and oversee the building
of Wadham College,
Oxford.His last known work was remodelling Dunster Castle in 1617 for the owner George Luttrell. The
interiors were completely modernised in the 1680s, and the exterior
work only partially survives as Anthony
Salvin remodelled and extended the castle in 1868.
References
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840,
Howard Colvin 1978