 He also became owner, together with Sir Basil Brooke and Sir George Russell of the Knockaunderrig silver mine at Knockanroe in the Silvermine Mountains south of the village of Silvermines, which lies south of Nenagh.In 1627 he succeeded Sir Roger Hope to the command of a company of foot in the Irish Army.In 1629 he married Mary Butler, youngest daughter of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles.