Coleman’s return for Newport in 1597 was due to George Carew, who, like Coleman, was a servant of Thomas Egerton, the lord keeper. Coleman was appointed to a committee concerning the punishment of rogues on 22 Nov. 1597.4C219/33/53, 54; D’Ewes, 561.
In 1601 Coleman was imprisoned in the Fleet for defaulting as subsidy collector. Though remaining in Egerton’s service, he was still or again imprisoned in the Fleet, presumably for debt, until 8 Aug. 1604, when a warrant for his release on bond was issued. His subsequent career is obscure. In the spring of 1611 he was suggesting various economies in the management of the royal household which ‘rendered him hateful to all’ and brought ‘jeers and derisions below stairs’. He assured Salisbury that his scheme would save the King £20,000 in a year alone, but the ‘well intended service’ almost caused his banishment from the court. Nothing more is heard of him until August 1622, when he was making genealogical tables for the King.5SP46/42/127; Egerton Pprs. (Cam. Soc. xii), 395; CSP Dom. 1603-10, p. 140; 1611-18, pp. 13, 22, 23; 1619-23, pp. 437-8.
No trace of his death, will, administration or inquisition post mortem has been found.