When they were forced to waive this claim, they refused to agree to any expression which imported that the Church of England had any fellowship with any other Protestant community.

Amendments and reasons were sent backward and forward.
Conferences were held at which Burnet on one side and Jane on the other were the chief speakers.

At last, with great difficulty, a compromise was made; and an address, cold and ungracious compared with that which the Bishops had framed, was presented to the King in the Banqueting House.

He dissembled his vexation, returned a kind answer, and intimated a hope that the assembly would now at length proceed to consider the great question of Comprehension, [511] Such however was not the intention of the leaders of the Lower House.
As soon as they were again in Henry the Seventh's Chapel, one of them raised a debate about the nonjuring bishops.

In spite of the unfortunate scruple which those prelates entertained, they were learned and holy men.