He had been a disciple of Master Gerard Groote and Father Florentius, Vicar of Deventer, and on the Feast of St.Mary Magdalene, in the year following the investiture of the first Brothers, he himself was invested there together with Henry Balveren.

A short time after Brother Werner, the first Prior, was absolved from his office, this John Huesden was chosen the second Prior of the House, being then in the twenty-eighth year of his age.

By the help of God he continued as Prior for thirty- three years and ruled the House in a laudable manner: also he was of much profit to the whole Order, being a most comfortable and kindly Father to all the devout Brothers and Sisters that were in the whole Diocese, for he was charitably disposed to all alike.

He ordered the writing of many books for the monastery, being a fervent lover of the holy writings, and was specially devoted to our Father Saint Augustine, a store of whose books he collected diligently.

He was also at Constance in the days of the General Council, whither he went in company with John Wale, the venerable Prior of Zwolle, and the cardinals and other prelates received them both kindly and with reverence.
Now it came to pass a few days before his death, and within the Octave of St.Martin the Bishop, that two Brothers came from Mount St.Agnes to Windesem to commune with the Prior.