Searcher of soap 1632 – 37; clerk of errors, K.b. 1633 – 41, ?1661 – d.; gent. of privy chamber by 1635 – 46, June 1660–67; commr. for wine licences 1662–?8; kt. marshal 1667 – d.; commr. for accounts [I] 1668, accounts loyal and indigent officers 1671.CSP Dom. 1635, p. 283; 1660–1, p. 464; 1661–2, p. 377; 1671, p. 255; 1675–6, p. 455; Wyndham, 179, 230, 248; Keeler, Long Parl. 396; Carlisle, Privy Chamber, 169; Eg. 2539, f. 254.
Capt. of horse 1639 – 42, col. (royalist) 1642 – 45; gov. of Bridgwater 1643–5.HMC 10th Rep. VI , 91; R. Hopton, Bellum Civile (Som. Rec. Soc. xviii), 48; Wyndham, 205; Collinson, Som. iii. 492.
Commr. of array, Som. 1642, sheriff 1642 – 43; j.p. Som. 1643 – 46, July 1660 – d., Mdx., Westminster and Surr. 1667-d., dep. lt. Som. July 1660 – d., commr. for sewers Dec. 1660, assessment 1661 – 80, the Household 1671, Mdx. 1673 – 79, Surr. and Westminster 1673 – 74, loyal and indigent officers, Som. 1662; sub-commr. for prizes, London 1665 – 66; commr. for recusants, Som. 1675.CJ, ii. 745, C181/7/26; HMC 6th Rep. 338; Cal. Treas. Bks. iii. 842.