 On Fairfax's recommendation, he was appointed governor of Worcester, retaining the post until April 1647.Rawton was elected recruiter MP for Nantwich in Cheshire in January 1647, but still continued with his military duties.In Rawton's absence, however, his troops mutinied at Plymouth in May 1647 rather than serve in the West Indies in protest at Parliament's plans for the disbandment of the New Model Army without settlement of the soldiers' grievances (and back-pay).