Halifax was chosen to preside.

The Primate was absent, the Royalists sad and gloomy, the Whigs eager and in high spirits.

It was known that James had left a letter behind him.

Some of his friends moved that it might be produced, in the faint hope that it might contain propositions which might furnish a basis for a happy settlement.

On this motion the previous question was put and carried.
Godolphin, who was known not to be unfriendly to his old master, uttered a few words which were decisive.