As he was never beneficed, he escaped the penalty of his nonconformity. He was to be an Oxford or Cambridge graduate, single, and not beneficed elsewhere. On 10 December 1631, then beneficed in South Wales, he graduated M.A. But the beneficed clergy took no part in it. A staunch royalist, he was ordained in 1673 and became a beneficed clergyman. Beneficed canons (below rank of bishop) were the primary casualties. Lawson had been a beneficed clergyman in Lancashire, known as a botanist. The Beneficed Commanderies were weaned of state funds in 1810 (Ukase 24.134. In 1826, when Pratt was fifty-eight, he finally became a beneficed clergyman.