sentences:  Instead, he received a commission as a captain of horse in the Irish army from the Duke of Ormond in 1663, which he held until at least 1680.He was a commissioner for assessment in Lincolnshire, his family's traditional stronghold, from 1673 to 1680, and was appointed a justice of the peace in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire in 1680.The interest of his half-brother Lord Abingdon, the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, procured his return as Member of Parliament for Woodstock in March 1685, where he had been created a freeman in 1680.