It is not clear if he got that position, but he had letters patent in 1597 to "determine" accounts of all the queen's surveyors and works in England and Wales, the shipyards, chanchery, and the wardrobe.
[2] In January 1603 the auditor Richard Sutton complained that he had been continually sick on a previous official visit to Ireland with Gofton and begged to be excused.
[5] In January 1612 George Nicholson sent him accounts for Berwick noting that ten old pensioners and Sir William Selby had died.
[6] In October 1604 he audited the accounts of Richard Mellersh, the former steward of the disgraced Lord Cobham and Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare.
[8] Gofton had a house at West Ham on the outskirts of London where he had fishing rights, though he lodged in Red Cross street in the city.
On 19 January 1606 a great porpoise was taken alive at West Ham, in a little creek, a mile and a half within the land, and this was presented to Francis Gofton.
Gofton sold lands and fishings on the Erne in Ireland to Sir Henry Folliot in April 1609, the former property of the Abbey of Assaroe near Ballyshannon.
[24] King James VI gave two great water pots that Cornelis Hayes had made for Henry VIII to the Spanish ambassador Juan Fernández de Velasco y Tovar, 5th Duke of Frías, Constable of Castile, in 1604 at the Somerset House Conference[25] Drawings were made of these treasures, and water pots made by William Jefferies in 1605 acquired by the Tsar, Michael of Russia, from Fabian Smith alias Ulyanov in 1629 may be replicas of Hayes' work.
[26] Some replicas of the silver plate given to the Spanish ambassadors and other diplomats were made in 1608 and Francis Gofton supervised the commission with instructions from the King and the Privy Council of England.
[27] On 2 March 1623 King James wanted Secretary Conway to visit the Tower of London with Lord Brooke, the Treasurer of the Household, the Chancellor of Exchequer, and George Heriot to select some "fine jewels fit for a woman", and others to be worn in hats.