[2] In 1405 he was granted lands in Newry which had been forfeited by the previous owners for rebellion: the Patent Roll however notes that "Richard will not be sufficient to sustain them without aid".
[6] In 1410 he obtained a remission for the townspeople of Carlingford, County Louth, where he was a landowner, of payment of all tallage (a tax levied by the Crown), subsidies and military expenses, due to the devastation of the town by hostile Irish and Scottish forces.
[7] There is a record of his sitting with John Fitzadam, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, in 1412 to hear a case of novel disseisin brought by Thomas Clone against William Dervoys and his wife Blanche.
[8] In 1420 he and his colleague Roger Hawkenshaw were instructed to inquire into complaints by the citizens of County Meath of extortion by the Lord Lieutenant's troops.
Like so many senior judges in that era, he faced the claims of a rival for office, in this case James Cornwalsh, who was finally confirmed as Chief Baron in 1425,[11] only to be murdered in 1441 during a feud with the Fitzwilliam family.