He is first heard of in 1410 when he received a royal pardon for "intruding" onto lands which were not lawfully his;Patent Roll 11 Henry IV He received a pardon for a similar action ten years later. In 1418 he was one of those given permission to found a new chapel called St. John's Chapel, near Dublin, along with his future colleague on the Bench, Roger Hawkenshaw.Patent Roll 6 Henry V Whether the chapel was actually built is uncertain. In 1421 he sat on a commission with William Tynbegh, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, and Richard Bermingham, second Baron of the Exchequer, to hear charges of treason in County Dublin.Patent Roll 9 Henry V In 1423 or 1424 he was appointed one of the justices and Keepers of the Peace for Dublin.Patent Roll 2 Henry VI He was appointed a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) in February 1424. He was one of a panel of senior judges, including John Blakeney and Reginald's Chief Baron James Cornwalsh, who regularly sat on judicial commissions to try or inquire into cases of treason or felony.Close Rolls 5 Henry VI He was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland, and there is a record of his attendance at a Council meeting in December 1428, where he was asked if he knew of any precedent for the Lord Treasurer of Ireland appointing a Deputy to act in his absence.Close Rolls 7 Henry VI
