He travelled to The Hague in May 1660 with his cousin, William Gawdy, to pledge loyalty to Charles II of England.
Following the Stuart Restoration, Gawdy was created a baronet, of Crow's Hall in the Baronetage of England on 20 April 1661, in recognition of his loyalty to Charles II.
[1] During the Exclusion Crisis, Gawdy voted repeatedly against excluding the Duke of York from the throne.
He was appointed to sixteen committees and helped to draw up the loyal address of the Commons to James II during the Monmouth Rebellion.
In September 1688, Jacobite agents reported that Gawdy would probably be elected again in Eye and that he would likely remain loyal to James.