The lords returned it with certain amendments, to which the commons would not agree: a conference ensued; the peers receded from their corrections, and passed the bill, to which the king however refused his assent.
Nothing could be more unpopular and dangerous than such a step at this juncture.

The commons, in order to recover some credit with the people, determined to disapprove of his majesty's conduct.

The house formed itself into a committee, to take the state of the kingdom into consideration.

They resolved, that whoever advised the king to refuse the royal assent to that bill, was an enemy to their majesties and the kingdom.

They likewise presented an address, expressing their concern that he had not given his consent to the bill; and beseeching his majesty to hearken for the future to the advice of his parliament, rather than to the counsels of particular persons, who might have private interests of their own, separate from those of his majesty and his people.