He then began to write under the pen name of Theodore Basille. When Edward VI came to the throne in 1547, Beccon was made chaplain to the Lord Protector. He was also presented by the Worshipful Company of Grocers to the living of St Stephen's, Walbrook in the City of London.[4] Thomas Cranmer made him one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury, and a chaplain in Cranmer's own household.[5] He contributed to Cranmer's Homilies.