It was in vain that, at that moment, Edward Seymour attempted to rally his followers, exhorted them to fix a day for discussing the King's answer, and expressed his confidence that the discussion would be conducted with the respect due from subjects to the sovereign.

The members were so much cowed by the royal displeasure, and so much incensed by the rudeness of Coke, that it would not have been safe to divide.

[26] The House adjourned; and the ministers flattered themselves that the spirit of opposition was quelled.

But on the morrow, the nineteenth of November, new and alarming symptoms appeared.

The time had arrived for taking into consideration the petitions which had been presented from all parts of England against the late elections.