He became Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, and fought a long and successful campaign against the efforts of his enemies to remove him from office, despite the numerous accusations of corruption which were made against him.
[1] In 1337 Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford, was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, with specific instructions to remove from the Bench those Irish judges who were considered to be unfit for office, and to find English replacements.
[5] He resigned from the Chief Justiceship in 1341; this was probably in connection with the charges of corruption and maladministration which had been made against him and other Irish judges, including Elias de Asshebournham.
[1] The following year he was accused of felony in England and arrested for trespass in Ireland, but nothing seems to have come of these charges, possibly due to the influence of the Earl of Kildare, to whom he remained close.
[6] He went to England in 1348 on official business: while there he stood bail for Kildare, who had recently been arrested and imprisoned due to suspicions about his loyalty to the English Crown.