"Take down his words," "To the bar," "To the Tower," resounded from every side.

Those who were most lenient proposed that the offender should be reprimanded: but the ministers vehemently insisted that he should be sent to prison.

The House might pardon, they said, offences committed against itself, but had no right to pardon an insult offered to the crown.

Coke was sent to the Tower.

The indiscretion of one man had deranged the whole system of tactics which had been so ably concerted by the chiefs of the opposition.