The cunning of Bishop Peter prevailed to the destruction of Earl Richard, but it was not sufficient to ensure his own position. The barons, although they lost their leader when the Earl Marshall fled, were not inclined to be submissive, and the bishops, now under the guidance of Edmund of Abingdon, the primate consecrated in 1234, insisted that justice should be done to the Earl Marshall and that the foreigners should be removed. The king was compelled to submit; Bishop Peter was ordered to retire from court, and with him fell the men whom he had patronized. But it was too late to do justice to the earl or to stop the measures contrived for his ruin. As a matter of fact the dismissal of Peter des Roches preceded by a few days the death of his victim far away in Ireland. Hubert de Burgh, however, profited by the change and regained his estates, although not his political power, when his rival fell. [Sidenote: Henry’s plan of governing. ] To some extent the administration of Hubert and of Peter after him had been a continuance of the royal tutelage; from this time Henry determined to be not only king but chief administrator. Stephen Segrave had been a very mean successor to Hubert in the great office of justiciar; henceforth the officer who bears the name is no longer the lieutenant-general of the king, but simply the chief officer of the law courts. The supreme direction of affairs Henry kept in his own incompetent hands. The position of the chancellor too was stronger than was convenient to a king who intended to have his own way. Ralph Neville, the Bishop of Chichester, had received the great seal in 1226, by the advice and consent of the great council of the nation; he now refused to surrender it to the king except at the express command of the assembly by which he had been appointed. Henry succeeded in wresting the seal from him in 1238, but he retained the income and title of chancellor until his death in 1244. The constant petitions of the barons that a properly qualified justiciar, chancellor, and treasurer should be elected or appointed, subject to the approval of the national council, show that this independent action of the king was regarded with jealousy, and that they had already in germ the idea of having the affairs of the kingdom administered by men who would be responsible, not only as Becket and Hubert de Burgh had been to the king, but to the nation, as represented at the time in the great council of the barons. [Sidenote: Influx of foreigners. ]