William, as the king’s confidant, chancellor, justiciar, and prospective legate, was far more than a match for Bishop Hugh. They quarrelled at the Exchequer as soon as Richard left for France. The chancellor crossed over and laid his complaint before the king; then Hugh followed, and obtained a favorable answer; but when he presented the royal letters to Longchamp he was arrested and kept in honorable confinement until the king’s pleasure should be further known. Richard was probably aware of this summary treatment of the bishop, but he had extracted from his coffers as much of his treasure as he was likely for the present to get, and he practically rewarded the chancellor by showing him increased confidence. In June Longchamp became legate of the pope and sole justiciar. [Sidenote: Longchamp supreme. ] After Hugh de Puiset’s defeat Longchamp had several months of practical sovereignty; supreme in Church and State, he travelled about in royal pomp, making double exactions, as chancellor and legate, from the religious houses. He fortified the Tower of London. He punished the rioters at York who had attacked the Jews and driven them to destroy themselves. He put his own brothers into high and lucrative posts, married his nephews and nieces to great wards of the crown, taught the noble pages of his household to serve on the knee, and, partly by misconduct, partly by mismanagement and contumelious behaviour in general, did his best to make himself intolerable. [Sidenote: Position of John. ] By this time John was released from the oath to stay three years on the Continent and had come to England, where he was keeping royal state in his castles of Marlborough and Lancaster. John’s position, if not his ability, made him a more formidable antagonist than Bishop Hugh de Puiset, and John’s enmity was no doubt first incurred by the support which Longchamp gave to the idea that Arthur should be Richard’s heir. Whether Richard really intended Arthur to succeed, or merely allowed him to be set up as a check upon John, cannot perhaps be certainly decided; but he was so set up, and Longchamp’s policy was, for a time, devoted to the securing of his claim. For a time John remained quiet, angry at not having his proper share of power, but restrained by the presence, and probably by the advice, of Eleanor, his mother, who certainly never intended that Arthur should exclude him from the throne. Eleanor, however, early in 1191, went to Messina with Berengaria of Navarre, and probably with the express purpose of laying before her son the imprudent behaviour of his chancellor. John was thus released from her influence, and in a very short time found an opportunity of asserting himself as the protector of the nation against the tyranny of Longchamp. [Sidenote: Longchamp demands the royal castles. ]