But neither William nor Anne could afford to forego the political capital involved in ecclesiastical control and Erastian principles proceeded to their triumph.
Here, as elsewhere, it was Charles Leslie who best summed up the feeling of High Churchmen.

His _Case of the Regale_ (1701) is by far the ablest of his many able performances.

He saw at the outset that the real issue was defined by the Church's claim to be a divine society, with rights thus consecrated by the conditions of its origin.

If it was divine, invasion did not touch its _de jure_ rights.

"How," he asked, "can rights that are divine be given up?
If they are divine, no human authority can either supersede or limit them....