Whether the bond should be enforced or not would depend on his subsequent conduct.

If he would support the dispensing power nothing would be exacted from him.

If he was bent on popularity he must pay thirty thousand pounds for it.

He refused, during some time, to consent to these terms; but confinement was insupportable to him.

He signed the bond, and was let out of prison: but, though he consented to lay this heavy burden on his estate, nothing could induce him to promise that he would abandon his principles and his party.