Whatever he thought of the "Great Contract," he did what was expected of him in trying to gain for it fair play.

But he made time for other things also.

He advised, and advised soundly, on the plantation and finance of Ireland.

It was a subject in which he took deep interest.

A few years later, with only too sure a foresight, he gave the warning, "lest Ireland civil become more dangerous to us than Ireland savage." He advised--not soundly in point of law, but curiously in accordance with modern notions--about endowments; though, in this instance, in the famous will case of Thomas Sutton, the founder of the Charter House, his argument probably covered the scheme of a monstrous job in favour of the needy Court.