Elrington Ball remarks flippantly that Bysse had a kind of "hereditary claim" on the Exchequer as both his father and grandfather had been officials there. In fact the author makes it clear that Bysse was eminently qualified to be Chief Baron: he had been Recorder of Dublin for 25 years and had sat in two Parliaments; he was hard-working, conscientious and popular with all political factions. In religion he seems to have been tolerant by the standards of the time, causing something of a stir in 1665 when he acted as a mourner at the funeral of a nonconformist clergyman.
