329-347.] The appeal to the Commons was in vain.

After three or four more meetings, they resumed, Jan.

29, the subject of the answer to be returned to the message of the 22nd from the Other House.

By a vote of eighty-four to seventy-eight they resolved to go into Grand Committee on the subject.

This having been done, they resolved, Jan.
30, "That the first thing to be debated shall be the Appellation to be given to the persons to whom the answer shall be made." On this one point there was a protracted debate of four days, the oppositionists insisting that the appellation should be simply "The Other House," as in the _Petition and Advice_, and the Oliverians contending that that was no name at all, that it had been employed in the _Petition and Advice_ only as a blank to be afterwards filled up, and that the proper name would be "The House of Lords." In one of two divisions on Feb.