Seven peers alone voted in this important question.

The rest, either from shame or fear, took care to absent themselves.[*] * Rush.

vol.vi.p.

830.
** Warwick, p.

169.
Laud, who had behaved during his trial with spirit and vigor of genius, sunk not under the horrors of his execution but though he had usually professed himself apprehensive of a violent death, he found all his fears to be dissipated before that superior courage by which he was animated.