The Tory who voted against those motions would run a great risk of being frowned upon at Kensington.
It was apparently in pursuance of this policy that the Whigs laid on the table of the House of Lords a bill declaring all the laws passed by the late Parliament to be valid laws.

No sooner had this bill been read than the controversy of the preceeding spring was renewed.

The Whigs were joined on this occasion by almost all those noblemen who were connected with the government.

The rigid Tories, with Nottingham at their head, professed themselves willing to enact that every statute passed in 1689 should have the same force that it would have had if it had been passed by a parliament convoked in a regular manner; but nothing would induce them to acknowledge that an assembly of lords and gentlemen, who had come together without authority from the Great Seal, was constitutionally a Parliament.

Few questions seem to have excited stronger passions than the question, practically altogether unimportant, whether the bill should or should not be declaratory.