 As lieutenant he also enjoyed the post of treasurer of the ordnance, and was granted by the king the lieutenancy of Alice Holt Forest and Woolmer Forest in Hampshire, lands in the county of Louth, and a pension for his wife.He was Member of Parliament for Southampton from 1661 to 1670.He died at his house in the Minories, near the Tower, on 13 October 1670, and was buried in the vault of the north chancel in the church of Holy Trinity, Minories.