134-139.] As we have said, almost the sole occupation of the Parliament was this revision of the flooring on which itself and the Protectorate stood.

They did, however, some little pieces of work besides.

They undertook a revision of the Ordinances that had been passed by the Protector and his Council, and also of the Acts of the Barebones Parliament; and they proposed Bills of their own to supersede some of these,--especially a new Bill for the Ejection of Scandalous Ministers, and a new Bill for Reform of the Court of Chancery.

But of all the incidental work undertaken by this Parliament none seems to have been undertaken with so much gusto as that which consisted in efforts for the suppression of Heresy and Blasphemy.

Here was the natural outcome of the Presbyterianism with which the Parliament was charged, and here also the Parliament was very vexatious to the soul of the Lord-Protector.
After all, this portion of the work of the Parliament can hardly be called incidental.