More can be added to the earlier biography.
It was probably in the context of Cary’s troubles after Henry IV’s usurpation that he came to quarrel with his earlier associate William Allington I*, perhaps in connexion with their joint landholdings.
An obscure incident in Cary’s career concerned an inquiry into the activities of John Bosom† of Bozomzeal ordered in July 1414. In November 1413 the chief justice of common pleas, Richard Norton, and other commissioners had been ordered to inquire into treasons and other offences committed in the county of Devon, and they had arrived in Exeter to hold their sessions on 26 Feb. 1414. On that day, Cary had purportedly intercepted Bosom in the street, and had said to him ‘John Boson, justices have come here with a commission containing diverse articles, and no such commission has been issued in any other county, and various men of the country doubt what damage might grow thereof’.
Despite his extensive record of administrative and parliamentary activity, Cary still found time for lesser duties on the local stage, such as service on presenting and grand juries.