A motion was made to agree to the amendments of the Lords.

Those who were for the plan of Sancroft and those who were for the plan of Danby divided together; but they were beaten by two hundred and eighty-two votes to a hundred and fifty-one.
The House then resolved to request a free conference with the Lords.
[658] At the same time strenuous efforts were making without the walls of Parliament to bring the dispute between the two branches of the legislature to a close.

Burnet thought that the importance of the crisis justified him in publishing the great secret which the Princess had confided to him.

He knew, he said, from her own lips, that it had long been her full determination, even if she came to the throne in the regular course of descent, to surrender her power, with the sanction of Parliament, into the hands of her husband.

Danby received from her an earnest, and almost angry, reprimand.