John de Troye

[2] On the temporary removal from the Irish Bench of William de Epworth, due to serious accusations of corruption in his office of steward of the royal lands, he became second Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) in 1347.

Epworth was restored to office the following year, having emerged triumphant from a lengthy inquiry into his alleged corruption, but Troye was permitted to continue to call himself a Baron and to draw a judge's salary, and was given another position in the Exchequer of Ireland as Clerk of the Wages, his main responsibility being to act as paymaster of the army.

[5] He was removed from the Court of Exchequer in 1364, as part of a general "shake-up" of Irish officials, but soon afterwards was compensated by appointment to the more senior office of Lord Treasurer of Ireland.

[6] From 1348 onwards Burnham was under constant attack from the faction which was headed by William de Barton, who accused him of numerous financial irregularities, and he spent much of his time in England attempting to clear his name.

[6] He and Burnham were accused of corruptly diverting revenues to their own use, but they were both eventually cleared of all charges: the English Crown accepted that the suspicions arose largely from a technical misunderstanding about Irish auditing methods, and had been given an appearance of plausibility by the false allegations made by William de Barton, who had a personal grudge against Burnham.