Their advice might, at this conjuncture, be of the greatest service to the Church.

The Upper House was hardly an Upper House in the absence of the Primate and of many of his most respectable suffragans.

Could nothing be done to remedy this evil?
[512] Another member complained of some pamphlets which had lately appeared, and in which the Convocation was not treated with proper deference.

The assembly took fire.

Was it not monstrous that this heretical and schismatical trash should be cried by the hawkers about the streets, and should be exposed to sale in the booths of Westminster Hall, within a hundred yards of the Prolocutor's chair?
The work of mutilating the Liturgy and of turning cathedrals into conventicles might surely be postponed till the Synod had taken measures to protect its own freedom and dignity.