In all questions, indeed, of elections, no steady rule of decision was observed; and nothing further was regarded than the affections and attachments of the parties.[***] Men's passions were too much heated to be shocked with any instance of injustice, which served ends so popular as those which were pursued by this house of commons.
* Clarendon, vol.i.p.

206.

Whitlocke, p.37.Rush.

vol.v.
p.

235, 359.