In the minority were the natural children of Charles, the brothers in law of James, the Dukes of Somerset and Ormond, the Archbishop of York and eleven Bishops.
No prelate voted in the majority except Compton and Trelawney.

[649] It was near nine in the evening before the House rose.

The following day was the thirtieth of January, the anniversary of the death of Charles the First.

The great body of the Anglican clergy had, during many years, thought it a sacred duty to inculcate on that day the doctrines of nonresistance and passive obedience.

Their old sermons were now of little use; and many divines were even in doubt whether they could venture to read the whole Liturgy.