"I wished," the King said to Adda, "to appoint an avowed Catholic: but the time is not come.

Parker is well inclined to us; he is one of us in feeling; and by degrees he will bring round his clergy." [92] The Bishopric of Chester, vacant by the death of John Pearson, a great name both in philology and in divinity, was bestowed on Thomas Cartwright, a still viler sycophant than Parker.
The Archbishopric of York remained several years vacant.

As no good reason could be found for leaving so important a place unfilled, men suspected that the nomination was delayed only till the King could venture to place the mitre on the head of an avowed Papist.

It is indeed highly probable that the Church of England was saved from this outrage by the good sense and good feeling of the Pope.

Without a special dispensation from Rome no Jesuit could be a Bishop; and Innocent could not be induced to grant such a dispensation to Petre.
James did not even make any secret of his intention to exert vigorously and systematically for the destruction of the Established Church all the powers which he possessed as her head.