metropolitancy

— […]; whereby, inſtead of his long evpected Entrance upon our deceaſed Fox’s Metropolitancy, he was in no ſmall Danger of gaining H⸺ter, had not the Lord Ranelaw, with ſome other Friends of his at Court, prevailed with our moſt gracious King W. to grant him his Pardon according to his ſaid Collectors Relation;[…]How he came to be baulk’d by George Whitehead out of our aboveſaid Metropolitancy, we in the Country had made ourselves ſo ſure he would have been placed in;