Archbishop Puente had an uncertain command of the English language; but he had — or so, at times it almost seemed — an unerring instinct for
disloyalty to Rome, and
rewarded it where he could, so blatantly, indeed, that in the end Rome cottoned on to what was happening: the last straw, it seems, was when he placed Bishop Crispian Hollis at the head of the terna for Southwark.