 He then occupied the office of Sheriff from 1625 to 1626.On 26 October 1629, he was appointed as a Lord Justice, and on 9 November 1631, he became the Lord Treasurer of Ireland.Although he was not a Peer in the English Parliament, it is nonetheless recorded that he was "by writ called into the Upper House by His Majesty's great grace", and he subsequently took up the honored position of an "assistant sitting on the inside of the Woolsack."