In the meantime they were allowed to be at large on their own recognisances.
The crown lawyers acted prudently in not requiring sureties.

For Halifax had arranged that twenty-one temporal peers of the highest consideration should be ready to put in bail, three for each defendant; and such a manifestation of the feeling of the nobility would have been no slight blow to the government.

It was also known that one of the most opulent Dissenters of the City had begged that he might have the honour of giving security for Ken.
The Bishops were now permitted to depart to their own homes.

The common people, who did not understand the nature of the legal proceedings which had taken place in the King's Bench, and who saw that their favourites had been brought to Westminster Hall in custody and were suffered to go away in freedom, imagined that the good cause was prospering.

Loud acclamations were raised.