"And be it enacted and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the declaration and 66 subscription of assent and consent in the said "act mentioned, shall be understood only as to "the practice and obedience to the said act, and "not otherwise."

When the question was put, "whether to 66 agree with the committee in this clause," it was resolved in the affirmative; fourteen lords entering their protest against it, as destructive to the church of England. These were the Duke of York, the Earls of Derby, Dorset, Bridgewater, Northampton, Peterborough, and Berkshire, the Lord Viscount Mordaunt, and the Lords Gerard-Bromley, Maynard, Colepeper, Lucas, Berkley of Stratton, and Cornwallis.

But, when the bill was sent back from the lords to the commons, on the 26th of July, the additional clause met with a different fate. The question being put, to agree with the lords in its being made part of the bill, the house was divided, and the question was carried in the negative, by a majority of forty-two to thirty. At the same time, it was resolved, that a conference should be desired with the lords upon the amendments of the bill. The conference was held on the day following: and one of the managers on the part of the commons, speaking of the additional clause, declared, that what had been sent down from the upper house, touching the bill, had neither justice nor prudence in it. This gave offence to the lords, and occasioned an order, that, at the next sessions, the house would take into serious consideration, before they entered upon any other matter whatsoever, how to provide for the future, that their privileges might not be infringed or broken. Nevertheless, after some debate concerning the matter of the conference, two questions were proposed: 1st. Whether they should proceed

any farther in the bill; and 2dly. Whether they should with the house of commons; and, agree the question being put, whether the first question should be first put? It was resolved in the negative. Then the question was put, "Whe"ther to agree with the house of commons, ac"cording to their last conference:" which was resolved in the affirmative. On the same day, being the 27th of July, 1663, the bill received the royal assent.

This it appears to have been the sense of the legislature, upon a very distinct and particular consideration of the matter, that the unfeigned assent and consent, required by the act of uniformity, relates not to the use only, but to the inward and entire approbation, of whatever is continued and prescribed in the book of Common Prayer. Lords Journals, Vol. xi. p. 564, 570, 572, 573, 574, 577, 579. Commons Journals, Vol. viii. p. 526, 533, 534.

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