From 1610-1612 Featley was in Paris as chaplain to Sir Thomas Edmondes , 'and was noticed for his fearless attacks upon the Roman catholic doctrines and his disputations with the jesuits' ( DNB ). He had been Wat Ralegh 's tutor at Oxford, and was subsequently domestic chaplain to Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury. He became BD in 1613, and DD in 1617.

Pory graduated MA (Cantab.) in 1595, and then became 'a sort of pupil of Richard Hakluyt' ( DNB ), publishing A Geographical History of Africa in 1600. He became MP for Bridgwater, Somerset in Nov. 1605, at which time he settled in London and became part of Cotton's circle. In 1612 he had travelled to Paris to deliver to Cardinal Perron 'a treatise written by Isaac Casaubon and the bishop of Ely' ( DNB ). The following year he travelled on through Italy and thence to Turkey, where he remained until 1616; in 1619 he went to America. He returned to London for good in 1624.