[1] He was appointed second Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) in 1443, "for life" (as opposed to the usual formula "at pleasure"), in succession to Thomas Shorthalls.
[1] Through the 1440s there was a lengthy and bitter dispute between the rival claimants John Cornwalsh and Michael Gryffin as to which of them had been validly appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
[4] He is recorded as being present at a meeting in August 1444 when James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, examined a monk called Thomas Talbot, who testified as to threats which he claimed he had heard Giles Thorndon, the Lord Treasurer of Ireland, make against Ormond.
[4] The bitter personal enmity between Ormond and Thorndon was a part of the wider Butler-Talbot feud, which had been a major problem in Irish public life for some 20 years past.
[4] It seems that Gough's salary was constantly in arrears, and in 1450 the Privy Council of Ireland granted him a sum of £10 per annum charged to the Prior of the Knights Hospitallers (whose Irish House was at Kilmainham) and payable from the rents on the Hospitallers' lands at Leixlip and Chapelizod in County Dublin, to cover his outstanding fees.