No Roman Catholic Bishop had exercised spiritual functions in the island during more than half a century.

No Nuncio had been received here during the hundred and twenty-seven years which had elapsed since the death of Mary.

Leyburn was lodged in Whitehall, and received a pension of a thousand pounds a year.

Adda did not yet assume a public character.
He passed for a foreigner of rank whom curiosity had brought to London, appeared daily at court, and was treated with high consideration.

Both the Papal emissaries did their best to diminish, as much as possible, the odium inseparable from the offices which they filled, and to restrain the rash zeal of James.