If the bishop cannot sequestrate, who can?
But you are always timid in exercising the authority put into your hands for wise purposes.

Not sequestrate the income of a man who has been proved to be a thief! You leave that to us, and we will manage it." The "us" here named comprised Mrs.Proudie and the bishop's managing chaplain.
Then the bishop was left alone for an hour to write the letter which Mr.Thumble was to carry over to Mr.Crawley,--and after a while he did write it.

Before he commenced the task, however, he sat for some moments in his arm-chair close by the fire-side, asking himself whether it might not be possible for him to overcome his enemy in this matter.

How would it go with him suppose he were to leave the letter unwritten, and send in a message by his chaplain to Mrs.
Proudie, saying that as Mr.Crawley was out on bail, the parish might be left for the present without episcopal interference?
She could not make him interfere.

She could not force him to write the letter.