The temporal peers who refused the oath were the duke of Newcastle; the earls of Clarendon, Litchfield, Exeter, Yarmouth, and Stafford; the lords Griffin and Stawel.

Five of the bishops withdrew themselves from the house at one time; but before they retired one of the number moved for a bill of toleration, and another of comprehension, by which moderate dissenters might be reconciled to the church, and admitted into ecclesiastical benefices.

Such bills were actually prepared and presented by the earl of Nottingham, who received the thanks of the house for the pains he had taken.

From this period the party averse to the government of William were distinguished by the appellation of Nonjurors.

They rejected the notion of a king _de facto_, as well as all other distinctions and limitations; and declared for the absolute power and divine hereditary indefeisible right of sovereigns.
{WILLIAM AND MARY, 1688--1701.} MUTINY IN THE ARMY.
This faction had already begun to practise against the new government.
The king having received some intimation of their designs from intercepted letters, ordered the earl of Arran, sir Robert Hamilton, and some other gentlemen of the Scottish nation, to be apprehended and sent prisoners to the Tower.