There remained a subject on which he had not taken counsel with them, but to which he thought it his duty to advert.

He was indeed the only man of his profession who could advert to that subject without being suspected of an interested motive.

The metropolitan see of York had been three years vacant.

The Archbishop implored the King to fill it speedily with a pious and learned divine, and added that such a divine might without difficulty be found among those who then stood in the royal presence.
The King commanded himself sufficiently to return thanks for this unpalatable counsel, and promised to consider what bad been said.

[486] Of the dispensing power he would not yield one tittle.