Though circumstances seem to have been pushing Henry to focus on his feudal revenue from the early 1490s, 1495 saw the policy begin in earnest. This new drive coincided with the call of serjeants, including Constable and Frowyk, in the autumn of 1495. A feast, paid for by the new serjeants and attended by the members of the Inns and various notable figures, was a regular feature of the celebrations surrounding a call of serjeants. Henry himself attended this feast, held at the bishop of Ely's palace in Holborn, being, as Bacon noted, “a Prince that was ever ready to grace and countenance the professors of the law; having a little of that, that as he governed his subjects by his laws, so he governed his laws by his lawyers.” There is no evidence of royal intervention in the choice of text, or in the substance of Constable's or Frowyk's lectures, or indeed of any of the readers' lectures, but Constable and Frowyk's awareness of the significance of their discussion must have been heightened by the king's interest. However, the readers' lectures were not critiques of contemporary policy, but explications of the law. They did not respond directly to the practices of the administrators but they taught their students about the duties and obligations of the king and his tenants-in-chief.