Justiciary of Ireland, Justice of Chester, Controller of the Household, Steward of the Household, Steward of Macclesfield, Governor of the City and County of Chester, Constable of Windsor Castle, Lieutenant of Ireland.
In 1378 he was pardoned for the death of Thomas de Clotton at Storeton in Wirral. In 1386 he was appointed deputy of Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, in the government of Ireland, and subsequently held other offices under the Crown.
He 1397 he purchased the manors of Bidston (in Wirral), Moreton, and Saughall Massie, Cheshire, from John le Strange, Lord Strange of Knockin. The same year he and his wife obtained a papal indult for a portable altar. In 1398 he and his wife, Isabel, obtained a dispensation to remain in marriage, they being related in the 3rd and 4th degrees of kindred.
In 1406 he was granted the Isle, Castle, peel and lordship of Man in perpetuity in return for the provision of two falcons at the coronation of the king's successors. The same year he and his wife, Isabel, obtained a papal indult to choose their confessor. In 1406 he obtained licence to to fortify his house at Liverpool called "the Tower." In 1411 he obtained a papal indult to celebrate mass before daybreak. He and his wife, Isabel, and their eldest son, John, were members of Trinity Guild of Coventry, Warwickshire. 2
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