During his lifetime he expended 800l on the improvement of the palace at Waterford, and by his will he established and endowed the free school at Grantstown. His only publication is ‘A Sermon preached in Christ's Church, Dublin, on 23 October 1698, being the anniversary thanksgiving for putting an end to the Irish Rebellion, which broke out on that day [in] 1641. Before the House of Lords,’ Dublin 1698, 4to.