Beneficed canons (below rank of bishop) were the primary casualties. Royal centralism thus made considerable advances; what had been formal control now became real in the appointment of over 100 bishops who owed most of their position to the king and paid him considerable revenue. Papal influence also increased in 1516 since the papacy now had the right to scrutinize episcopal appointments at the expense of anti-papal conciliar-ism, so dear to later medieval France, which aimed to subordinate the pope to the bishops. Note :- The French King receiving revenue from his bishops is similar to the situation in post-Reformation England where more than half the income of a diocese could go to the crown. Under Charles I it was often like a Dutch auction : a candidate would be informed how much revenue he would have to remit and might decline , then a more desperate candidate would accept. Archbishop Laud wanted to put an end to this practice : he wanted all the money spent on the diocese, restoring the Church.