Complex sentence: He graduated from University College, Oxford and held a succession of livings including the rectory of St Mary Staining in London, and had to flee the Great Fire and as chaplain to the English garrisons in Calais and Tangier.
Split into simpler sentences: He graduated from University College, Oxford and held a succession of livings including the rectory of St Mary Staining in London. He had to flee the Great Fire and later worked as chaplain to the English garrisons in Calais and Tangier.