From about 1317 his career was clearly on a downward path: he had no influential patrons in England and had evidently lost touch with Wogan, who retired as Justiciar of Ireland in 1313. He never obtained the permanent place on the English Bench for which he had evidently hoped, and he was now advancing in years. He ceased to sit on judicial commissions and did not attend meetings of the Privy Council, of which he may no longer have been a member. He was now heavily in debt: he sold some of his lands and borrowed large sums of money which he could not repay, leading to litigation with his creditors.
