This proposal being rejected, some tory members quitted the house; and all the articles were examined and approved without further opposition.

The whigs were so eager in the prosecution of this point, that they proceeded in a very superficial manner, and with such precipitation as furnished their enemies with a plausible pretence to affirm, that they had not considered the treaty with the coolness and deliberation which an affair of this importance required.
Before the lords began to investigate the articles of the union, they, at the instance of the archbishop of Canterbury, brought in a bill for the security of the church of England, to be inserted as a fundamental and essential part of that treaty.

It passed through both houses without opposition, and received the royal assent.

On the fifteenth clay of February, the debates concerning the union began in the house of lords, the queen being present, and the bishop of Sarum chairman of the committee.

The earls of Rochester, Anglesea, and Nottingham, argued against the union; as did the bishop of Bath and Wells.