He next appears, with his brother Humphrey, as holding prebends in the collegiate church of Pontesbury, of which Baron Charlton was patron.
In 1340, Adam of Coverton petitione to the king against him on the ground of obstructing him in collecting tithes belonging to St. Michael's, Shrewsbury.
In 1348, he appears as signing, as doctor of civil law, an indenture between the town and university of Oxford that they should have a common assize and assay of weights and measures.
In 1354, a great feud broke out between town and university, culminating in the St Scholastica Day riot and at the brothers’ petition the king conditionally liberated some townsmen from prison and granted his protection for a year to the scholars.
For these and other services they were enrolled in the album of benefactors, and in 1356 an annual mass for the two was directed to be henceforth celebrated on St. Edmund’s day.