Because of his later support for Crown forces, particularly during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, he was restored to half his estate when Charles II came to the throne.
[1] During the reign of the Catholic James II a major purge of Protestant office-holders was undertaken.
He was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of County Wicklow and raised a cavalry regiment to serve in the Irish Army.
The terms of the Treaty of Limerick in 1691 allowed him to retain his estates, and he retired there rather than emigrating in the Flight of the Wild Geese as many of his comrades did.
[2] He married a daughter of Sir Henry Talbot, a fellow County Dublin landowner.