Of counsel to Norwich 1563 – 70, steward 1570 – 75, recorder 1575 – 80; bencher of L. Inn 1569, Autumn and Lent reader 1571, 1572, treasurer 1575; serjeant-at-law 1577; j.c.p. 1579–d. DNB; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 324; Black Bk. L. Inn, i. 311, 314, 329, 364, 380, 388, 397, 462; Norwich assembly bk. 1568–85, f. 115; Foss, Judges, v. 551; H. A. Wyndham, Fam. Hist. 1410–1688, pp. 128–40 et passim.
J.p. Norf. from c. 1573, many other counties from 1577.