Career
He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was re-elected Member of Parliament for Midhurst for the Long Parliament in November 1640. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he put a garrison into Chichester and was disabled from sitting in parliament on 23 November 1642.
His estates were subsequently sequestered and restored when he paid a fine of £900 for his delinquency in February 1647.