He particularly addressed himself to Kendall, a needy retainer of the court, who had, in obedience to the royal mandate, been sent to Parliament by a packed corporation in Cornwall, and who had recently obtained a grant of a hundred head of rebels sentenced to transportation.

"Sir," said Middleton, "have not you a troop of horse in His Majesty's service ?" "Yes, my Lord," answered Kendall: "but my elder brother is just dead, and has left me seven hundred a year." When the tellers had done their office it appeared that the Ayes were one hundred and eighty-two, and the Noes one and eighty-three.

In that House of Commons which had been brought together by the unscrupulous use of chicanery, of corruption, and of violence, in that House of Commons of which James had said that more than eleven twelfths of the members were such as he would himself have nominated, the court had sustained a defeat on a vital question.

[21] In consequence of this vote the expressions which the King had used respecting the test were, on the thirteenth of November, taken into consideration.

It was resolved, after much discussion, that an address should be presented to him, reminding him that he could not legally continue to employ officers who refused to qualify, and pressing him to give such directions as might quiet the apprehensions and jealousies of his people.