sentences:  He appears in several special commissions issued in 1553 and 1554 for the trials of Cranmer, Lady Jane Grey, Lords Guilford and Ambrose Dudley, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Sir Peter Carew, and others.On 13 February 1554 he was made a justice of common pleas for the county palatine of Lancaster.He was knighted by Philip II on 27 January 1555, two days before his brother Laurence was arraigned for heresy.