He owned land in Sand Hutton and Skelton as well as renting tenements in York, namely in Coney Street and Coppergate.
Among his achievements was to sit on several royal commissions in Yorkshire and a term as Lord Mayor of York in 1375.
Secondly, in 1381, to Maud Multon from Ingleby in Lincolnshire and thirdly, in 1401, to Alice Colthorpe, a widow, from Kingston upon Hull.
Though not directly punished for his role in the rioting that occurred in the city, he was implicated in the local instigation of that summer's Peasants' Revolt.
His prowess in international trade led him to be despatched as a negotiator in talks with Conrad Zolver, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in June 1388.