 On 17 July 1439 he had licence to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and according to Harriss, may well have done so as his name does not reappear in English records until May 1443.He is said to have been made Master of the King's Hart Hounds in 1441–2.In March 1445 he was one of the peers who escorted King Henry VI's wife, Margaret of Anjou, to England.