The lower house of convocation presented a memorial against this clause as prejudicial to the rights and properties of the clergy.

The commons voted the person who brought it in guilty of a breach of privilege, and ordered him to be taken into custody.

Then they resolved that the convocation were guilty of a contempt and breach of the privilege of that house.

The convocation presuming to justify their memorials, the commons voted that all matters relating to it should be razed out of the journals and books of convocation.

The duke of Ormond, dreading the consequences of such heats, adjourned the parliament to the first day of May, when the houses meeting again, came to some resolutions that reflected obliquely on the eon-vocation as enemies to her majesty's government and the protestant succession.