[2] Relations between the two bishops improved, and Dantsey was evidently willing to invoke Talbot's aid, as well as that of the Archbishop of Armagh, during the curious episode in 1426/7 when he was indicted for felony, in that he had stolen a chalice from the parish church of Taveragh (Tara), County Meath.
[2] The not guilty verdict was undoubtedly right: it appears that the real thief was one John Penthony, who later confessed to the crime.
[6] He may have been the author of a 1428 report to the English Privy Council on the state of Ireland: the report makes some effort to be fair to all sides, while unsuccessfully pressing the claims of Ormond, whom Grey had replaced as Lord Lieutenant, to be reappointed to the office.
[2] From the limited evidence about his personality, he seems to have been a man of upright character, who was held in high regard by the English Crown.
As Archbishop Healy remarks in his History of the Diocese of Meath, it is to his credit that he forgave Penthony, the man whose crime he has been falsely accused of and tried for.