Excerpt from Love and Honour and the Siege of Rhodes In May, 1641, he was implicated, along with other prominent men, in a scheme to bring the army up from Yorkshire to London to overawe Parliament, and was summoned before the House. He fled and reached F rance after two arrests and several months' im prisonment. He remained in F rance until toward the close of 1642, when he returned with supplies for the King and was made lieutenant general of the Ordnance. At the siege of Gloucester in September, 1643, he was knighted. He remained with the royal forces until the defeat of Marston Moor, when like others he fled to F rance.

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