Having taken into consideration the services of the army and navy, they voted that the queen should be desired to bestow her bounty on the seamen and land forces who had behaved themselves so gallantly.

Then they deliberated upon the different articles of national expense, and granted four millions six hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and thirty-one pounds, for the occasion's of the ensuing year, to be raised by a land tax, by the sale of annuities, and other expedients.

These measures were taken with such expedition, that the land tax received the royal assent on the ninth day of December; when the queen, in a short speech, thanked the commons for their despatch, which she considered a sure pledge of their affection.
AN ACT OF ALIENATION PASSED.
The high church party took this occasion to promote the bill against occasional conformity, which was revived and brought into the house in a new model by Mr.William Bromley, who moved that it might be tacked to the land-tax bill, and sent up to the lords for their concurrence.
The court no longer espoused this measure, and the violent party was weakened by defection.

After a warm and tedious debate, the tack was rejected by a great majority.

The bill, however, passed the house of commons, and was sent up to the lords on the fourteenth day of December, when it would hardly have excited a debate had not the queen been present, and desirous of hearing what could be said on both sides of the question.