[22] A motion was then made that the Lords should be requested to join in the address.

Whether this motion was honestly made by the opposition, in the hope that the concurrence of the peers would add weight to the remonstrance, or artfully made by the courtiers, in the hope that a breach between the Houses might be the consequence, it is now impossible to discover.

The proposition was rejected.

[23] The House then resolved itself into a committee, for the purpose of considering the amount of supply to be granted.

The King wanted fourteen hundred thousand pounds: but the ministers saw that it would be vain to ask for so large a sum.