He did not make either Bath or Wells his headquarters, but moved about constantly, attended apparently by a large retinue, from one to another of the manor-houses, sixteen or more in number, attached to the see and used as episcopal residences.

Magnificent and liberal, he was, like many of his fellow-bishops, a worldly man, and by no means blameless in the administration of his patronage, for he conferred a prebend on a member of the house of Berkeley who was a layman and a mere boy, and in the bountiful provision he made for his relations out of the revenues of his church he was not always careful to act legally.

At the same time he was concerned in the rebellion against Edward, and in February 1323 the king wrote to Pope John XXII and the cardinals complaining of his conduct, and requesting that he should be translated to some see out of the kingdom.

He signed the letter sent by the bishops to the queen in 1325 exhorting her to return to her husband, and on 13 January 1327 took the oath to support her and her son at the Guildhall of London.

Droxford died at his episcopal manor-house at Dogmersfield, Hampshire, on 9 May 1329, and was buried in St Katharine's Chapel in his cathedral church, where his tomb is still to be seen.