 Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford vigorously remonstrated against the proposal to make him captain of Hull in place of Sir John Hotham.Legge, however, was appointed Master of the Armoury and lieutenant of the ordnance for the First Bishops' War.In the spring of 1641 he was implicated in the plots for making use of the army to support the king against the parliament.