I have not invited the Prince over; and I do not believe that a single one of my brethren has done so." "I am sure I have not," said Crewe of Durham.

"Nor I," said Cartwright of Chester.
Crewe and Cartwright might well be believed; for both had sate in the Ecclesiastical Commission.

When Compton's turn came, he parried the question with an adroitness which a Jesuit might have envied.

"I gave your Majesty my answer yesterday." James repeated again and again that he fully acquitted them all.
Nevertheless it would, in his judgment, be for his service and for their own honour that they should publicly vindicate themselves.

He therefore required them to draw up a paper setting forth their abhorrence of the Prince's design.