The lords debated upon the point, Whether a corporation could be forfeited or surrendered?
Lord chief justice Holt and two other judges declared their opinion in the affirmative: the rest thought otherwise, as no precedents could be produced farther back than the reign of Henry VIII.

when the abbeys were surrendered; and this instance seemed too violent to authorize such a measure in a regular course of administration.

The bill, however, passed by one voice only.

Then both parties quickened their applications to the king, who found himself so perplexed and distracted between two factions which he equally feared, that he resolved to leave the government in the queen's hands and retire to Holland.

He communicated this design to the marquis of Carmarthen, the earl of Shrewsbury, and some other noblemen, who pressed him to lay aside his resolution, and even mingled tears with their remonstrances.
THE KING RESOLVES TO FINISH THE IRISH WAR IN PERSON.
He at length complied with their request, and determined to finish the Irish war in person.