Yet the only records of his public activities that survive, though typically suggestive of controversy, are local and of only inferential significance: he was treasurer of Quenehalle and his name survives in college accounts; in a dispute about the
provostship he was expelled from the college, along with a number of other fellows, 'for unworthiness'; he had to fight (literally, it seems) for his prebend of Woodford and his canonry in the collegiate church of Westbury-on-Trym; he was apparently compelled against his wishes to provide a chaplain for an outlying village in his parish of Berkeley; there is an order granting power of attorney over his affairs to two other clerks when he intended to go on a journey overseas, the object of which is not mentioned.