 Preston's friends urged the necessity of a conference on Montagu's books, and nominated on the one side John Buckeridge, Bishop of Rochester, and Francis White, then dean of Carlisle; on the other, Thomas Morton, then Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and Preston.Buckingham played a double part, begging Preston as his friend to decline the conference, and letting others know that he had done with Preston.The conference was held in February 1626 at York House.