[34] On the following morning the King came down, in his robes, to the House of Lords.

The Usher of the Black Rod summoned the Commons to the bar; and the Chancellor announced that the Parliament was prorogued to the tenth of February.

[35] The members who had voted against the court were dismissed from the public service.

Charles Fox quitted the Pay Office.
The Bishop of London ceased to be Dean of the Chapel Royal, and his name was struck out of the list of Privy Councillors.
The effect of the prorogation was to put an end to a legal proceeding of the highest importance.

Thomas Grey, Earl of Stamford, sprung from one of the most illustrious houses of England, had been recently arrested and committed close prisoner to the Tower on a charge of high treason.
He was accused of having been concerned in the Rye House Plot.