 Soon after his appointment he continued his activities outside Westminster, serving on a commission of Oyer and terminer in Kent in 1451 following the rebellion of Jack Cade by a similar commission in Lincolnshire in 1452 and at York in 1454.In the Parliaments of 1453 and 1455 he served as a Trier of Petitions from Gascony and other overseas territories.In 1455 he also served on a Hertfordshire commission raising funds for the defence of Calais, and in 1459 he became a Feoffee for various estates belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster, and was also knighted.