All the funds being established, one in particular for two millions and a-half by way of annuities for ninety-nine years, at six and a-half per cent., and all the bills having received the royal assent, the queen went to the house of peers on the nineteenth day of March, where, having thanked both houses for the repeated instances of their affection which she had received, she prorogued the parliament to the twenty-first day of May following.* * Among other bills passed during this session, was an act for abridging and reforming some proceedings in the common law and in chancery.
The new convocation, instead of imitating the union and harmony of the parliament, revived the divisions by which the former had been distracted, and the two houses seemed to act with more determined rancour against each other.

The upper house having drawn tip a warm address of thanks to the queen for her affectionate care of the church, the lower house refused to concur, nor would they give any reason for their dissent.

They prepared another in a different strain, which was rejected by the archbishop.

Then they agreed to divers resolutions, asserting their right of having what they offered to the upper house received by his grace and their lordships.

In consequence of this dissension the address was dropped, and a stop put to all further communication between the two houses.