Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan faduwar Cromwell, Godolphin ya sami babban suna na soja. Da alama an tattara shi cikin rundunar soja a matsayin injiniya, yana amfani da iliminsa game da hakar gwal (wanda shine babban tushen samun kudin shiga ga danginsa a Cornwall). Babban gudummawar da ya bayar shine a Siege na Boulogne
Ka yi haƙuri. Richard Carew a cikin "Binciken Cornwall" ya ce game da shi "Ya ƙasƙantar da kansa sosai a ƙetaren teku, kamar yadda ya bayyana ta hanyar raunuka da ya kawo gida, ba don ƙawata darajarsa ba, fiye da lalata fuskarsa". Bayan kamawar Boulogne, an sanya shi jami'in shari'a don girmama rawar da ya taka a nasarar, kuma an ba shi lambar yabo. Ya kasance memba na Majalisar Regency daga 1547 zuwa 1551, Babban Sheriff na Cornwall a 1549<unk>50 da 1568<unk>9, kuma MP dinsa sau ɗaya a 1553. Ya kuma kasance Mataimakin Warden na Stannaries, da Custos Rotulorum na Cornwall daga 1562 har zuwa mutuwarsa a 1570.