He hesitated, blundered, contradicted himself, called the Speaker My Lord, and, by his confused way of speaking, raised a tempest of rude laughter which confused him still more.

As soon as he had withdrawn, it was unanimously resolved that the obnoxious treatise should be burned in Palace Yard by the common hangman.

It was also resolved, without a division, that the King should be requested to remove Bohun from the office of licenser.

The poor man, ready to faint with grief and fear, was conducted by the officers of the House to a place of confinement.
[393] But scarcely was he in his prison when a large body of members clamorously demanded a more important victim.

Burnet had, shortly after he became Bishop of Salisbury, addressed to the clergy of his diocese a Pastoral Letter, exhorting them to take the oaths.