[433] He was recompensed with a baronetcy.

Holloway and Powell had raised their character by declaring that, in their judgment, the petition was no libel.

They were dismissed from their situations.

[434] The fate of Wright seems to have been, during some time, in suspense.
He had indeed summed up against the Bishops: but he had suffered their counsel to question the dispensing power.

He had pronounced the petition a libel: but he had carefully abstained from pronouncing the Declaration legal; and, through the whole proceeding, his tone had been that of a man who remembered that a day of reckoning might come.