[1] But bicause this matter séemed to require good deliberation, it was first put to the bishops, who with small adoo gaue sentence, that the said charters were reuocable, and might well inough be called in: yet the archbishop of Canturburie in his answer here|vnto said, that the king from whome those pardons came, was so high an estate, that he durst not saie, that anie such charters by him granted, might be re|uoked: notwithstanding, his brethren the bishops thought otherwise: not considering (saith Thomas Walsingham) that such reuoking of the kings char|ters of pardon should sound highlie to the kings dis|honor: forsomuch as mercie and pardoning trans|gressions is accompted to be the confirmation and establishing of the kings seat and roiall estate.