In or after 1416 complaint was made to the Lord Chancellor alleging that he had forcibly deprived John Hicks of his property in Rolvenden, dragging him out of his house by his legs, and stealing goods worth 20 pounds.
In 1420, shortly after the dissolution of his first Parliament, his name was included by the local JPs in a list sent to the Privy Council as one of the dozen men from the county they considered most capable of doing military service in defence of the kingdom (though there is no record of him serving as a soldier).
[2] In 1431 he was involved in transactions regarding land in Stone on behalf of William Bertin of Canterbury, who had married his daughter Elizabeth, and that year was appointed Sheriff of Kent.
In 1436 the Privy Council asked him to loan 40 pounds towards the Duke of York's military expedition to France and he served on two royal commissions, one on distributing tax allowances in Kent and one on the defence of Sussex.
In 1440 he and his wife joined the religious fraternity of Christ Church Priory in Canterbury and he was appointed a third time to the bench of magistrates, sitting for life.
In that year he began legal proceedings against members of the Brenchley family for possession of a holding in Benenden, eventually ending the disagreement with a settlement out of court.