It was not thought safe to hint any suspicion that their disobedience had been intentional.

They were merely enjoined to have their reports ready in four months.

The Commission then broke up in confusion.

It had received a death blow.

[437] While the High Commission shrank from a conflict with the Church, the Church, conscious of its strength, and animated by a new enthusiasm, invited, by a series of defiances, the attack of the High Commission.
Soon after the acquittal of the Bishops, the venerable Ormond, the most illustrious of the Cavaliers of the great civil war, sank under his infirmities.