On the question whether the throne was vacant, a division was demanded.
The Contents were sixty-two; the Not Contents forty-seven.

It was immediately proposed and carried, without a division, that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared King and Queen of England.
[666] Nottingham then moved that the wording of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy should be altered in such a way that they might be conscientiously taken by persons who, like himself, disapproved of what the Convention had done, and yet fully purposed to be loyal and dutiful subjects of the new sovereigns.

To this proposition no objection was made.

Indeed there can be little doubt that there was an understanding on the subject between the Whig leaders and those Tory Lords whose votes had turned the scale on the last division.

The new oaths were sent down to the Commons, together with the resolution that the Prince and Princess should be declared King and Queen.