next year we find him preaching at st mary's, cambridge, possibly while keeping his acts for the b.d. degree, for he proceeded d.d. in the ordinary course in 1605; the latin sermon he then delivered is among his printed works. whitgift's death (february 1604) made little alteration in his circumstances; archbishop richard bancroft soon took him into his favour, and he preached at ashford, on the occasion of the primate holding his primary visitation there on 11 september 1607. two years after this boys published his first work, "the minister's invitatorie, being an exposition of all the principall scriptures used in our english liturgie: together with a reason why the church did chuse the same".