Addresses in the usual style were immediately presented by the parliament, the convocation, the common-council and lieutenancy of London, and the two universities; but that of Oxford was received in the most contemptuous manner; and the deputies were charged with disloyalty, on account of a fray which had happened between some recruiting officers and the scholars of the university.

The addresses from the kirk of Scotland, and the dissenting ministers of London and Westminster, met with a much more gracious reception.

The parliament forthwith passed a bill, empowering the king to secure suspected persons, and to suspend the _habeas-corpus_ act in that time of danger.

A clause was added to a money-bill, offering the reward of one hundred thousand pounds to such as should seize the pretender dead or alive.

Sir George Byng was sent to take the command of the fleet.