On the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, he fled for safety to Dublin. Tragedy struck the same year when several of his family perished in a shipwreck. He was sworn a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1644. In 1647 he was nominated as Archbishop of Tuam, but due to the state of civil war in Ireland, he was unable to gain possession of the Archdiocese. He retired to Bridgnorth and died there.[citation needed]
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