William succeeded to the estate, and recovered all the lands which his father had lost. But in the 17th of Henry II, 1233, he also had his lands distrained by virtue of the king's precept for omitting to repair to court at the feast of Whitsuntide, there to receive the dignity of knighthood as required by law. But the next on doing his homage he was, by the Sheriff of Counties Dorset and Somerset, reinstated in his possessions.