Nothing was said of the barbarities of Kirke and Jeffreys.

It was admitted that the heavy expenditure which had been occasioned by the late troubles justified the King in asking some further supply: but strong objections were made to the augmentation of the army and to the infraction of the Test Act.
The subject of the Test Act the courtiers appear to have carefully avoided.

They harangued, however, with some force on the great superiority of a regular army to a militia.

One of them tauntingly asked whether the defence of the kingdom was to be entrusted to the beefeaters.

Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis.