 While Stafford's incumbency passed without notice in the parliamentary record, Corbet was noted as one who 
voted against an important government bill, alongside his uncle Reginald Corbet.This was particularly notable as Sir Andrew had just been chosen as Sheriff, a politically sensitive post, in his native county.In fact he was also Shropshire's commissioner for the loan of 1558, levied to pay for England's disastrous participation in the Italian War of 1551–59, which led to the loss of the Pale of Calais.