3 the votes were eighty-seven against eighty-six; in the other they were ninety-three against eighty-seven.

These divisions, however, were merely incidental, and the debate was still going on fiercely on Thursday, Feb.4.Scott had spoken and was trying to speak again in defiance of rule, with Hasilrig backing him, when "Mr.Speaker informed the House that the Usher of the Black Rod was at the door with a message from his Highness." Hasilrig seems to have been still on his feet when the Black Rod, having been admitted, delivered his message: "Mr.Speaker, His Highness is in the Lords House, and desires to speak with you." Thither they adjourned, and there his Highness briefly addressed the two Houses once again (Speech XVIII.).

Or rather he addressed both Houses only through about half of his speech; for, at a particular point, he turned deliberately to the Commons and proceeded thus: "I do not speak to these Gentlemen, or Lords, or whatsoever you will call them; I speak not this to _them_, but to _you_.

You advised me to come into this place [the Second Protectorship], to be in a capacity by your advice.

Yet, instead of owning a thing, some must have I know not what; and you have not only disjointed yourselves but the whole Nation, which is in likelihood of running into more confusion in these fifteen or sixteen days that you have sat than it hath been from the rising of the last session to this day.