The other two, Arundell and Dover, had no such misgivings.
[87] The dispensing power was, at the same time, employed for the purpose of enabling Roman Catholics to hold ecclesiastical preferment.

The new Solicitor readily drew the warrants in which Sawyer had refused to be concerned.

One of these warrants was in favour of a wretch named Edward Sclater, who had two livings which he was determined to keep at all costs and through all changes.

He administered the sacrament to his parishioners according to the rites of the Church of England on Palm Sunday 1686.

On Easter Sunday, only seven days later, he was at mass.
The royal dispensation authorised him to retain the emoluments of his benefices.