[2] In 1375 he was much occupied as Chancellor with the King's business in several parts of Leinster, and was thus unable to hold the assizes at Waterford: John Keppock, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, deputised for him, without the Great Seal of Ireland.
[3] In 1375 he was granted the lands of Sir Thomas Verdon at Rathmore, County Meath (these later reverted to Sir John Cruys and his wife Matilda, Verdon's daughter and son-in-law).
He was regularly summoned to the Irish Parliament, and in 1376 he received an exemption from military service in consideration of the many charities performed by his Order, and the large number of chaplains maintained in his house for saying mass.
[5] He was entitled to an armed guard of six men-at-arms and twelve archers, and received an unspecified sum to pay their arrears of wages in 1377.
[9] He was much occupied in his last years as Chancellor in arranging to parley with hostile Irish clans, and in 1383 he petitioned the Crown for compensation, in that he had borne all the costs of the negotiations himself.