The king said, that he intended afterwards to follow that method, and would call a parliament in which he purposed to have his settlement ratified; but in the mean time he required the judges, on their allegiance, to draw the patent in the form required.

The council told the judges, that their refusal would subject all of them to the pains of treason.
Northumberland gave to Montague the appellation of traitor; and said that he would in his shirt fight any man in so just a cause as that of Lady Jane's succession.

The judges were reduced to great difficulties between the dangers from the law, and those which arose from the violence of present power and authority.[*] * Fuller, book viii.p.

2.
The arguments were canvassed in several different meetings between the council and the judges, and no solution could be found of the difficulties.

At last, Montague proposed an expedient, which satisfied both his brethren and the counsellors.