It seemed that his Ecclesiastical Commission would fail him as his Tory Parliament had failed him.

He offered Rochester a simple choice, to pronounce the Bishop guilty, or to quit the Treasury.
Rochester was base enough to yield.

Compton was suspended from all spiritual functions; and the charge of his great diocese was committed to his judges, Sprat and Crewe.

He continued, however, to reside in his palace and to receive his revenues; for it was known that, had any attempt been made to deprive him of his temporalities, he would have put himself under the protection of the common law; and Herbert himself declared that, at common law, judgment must be given against the crown.
This consideration induced the King to pause.

Only a few weeks had elapsed since he had packed the courts of Westminster Hall in order to obtain a decision in favour of his dispensing power.