sentences:  Not being heir to any significant property, he probably trained as a lawyer, working for private clients and for the crown.By 1342 he had been granted the manor of Banstead in Surrey for life and to this he added holdings in Kent.Three major clients were the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Richard III Willoughby, his daughter and heiress Lucy, and her husband Sir Thomas Huscarle, an MP who was lord of the manor of Purley Magna in Berkshire and died by 1352.