Not but they might have justly stigmatized the expedition as a little mean adventure, in which those noblemen had embarked with a view to their own private advantage.
While this affair was in agitation among the commons, the attention of the upper house was employed upon the case of Dr.Watson, bishop of St.
David's.

This prelate was supposed to have paid a valuable consideration for his bishopric; and, after his elevation, had sold the preferments in his gift with a view of being reimbursed.

He was accused of simony; and, after a solemn hearing before the archbishop of Canterbury and six suffragans, convicted and deprived.

Then he pleaded his privilege: so that the affair was brought into the house of lords, who refused to own him as a peer after he had ceased to be a bishop.

Thus disappointed, he had recourse to the court of delegates, by whom the archbishop's sentence was confirmed.