sentences:  In July 1652 the council of state granted him £100 to enable him to return to Ireland.He was in 1653 a prisoner for debt in the "upper bench" in London, and petitioned parliament for payment of his commission as a debtor.According to a certificate from Sir John Danvers, he was "of most honest and religious conversation, very free from the common vices of swearing, drunkenness, &c., and most valiant and faithful" in the service of the parliament.