But still the power of the court of Rome ran very high, for they brought all the trials of titles to advowsons into their own courts beyond sea; and though by the seventh of Richard II. the power of nomination to benefices, without the king’s licence, was taken from them, they still claimed the benefit of confirmations, of translations of bishops, and of excommunications; the archbishops of Canterbury and York might, still, by virtue of bulls from Rome, assemble the clergy of their several provinces,