The Convocation was prorogued for six weeks.

When those six weeks had expired, it was prorogued again; and many years elapsed before it was permitted to transact business.
So ended, and for ever, the hope that the Church of England might be induced to make some concession to the scruples of the nonconformists.

A learned and respectable minority of the clerical order relinquished that hope with deep regret.

Yet in a very short time even Barnet and Tillotson found reason to believe that their defeat was really an escape, and that victory would have been a disaster.

A reform, such as, in the days of Elizabeth, would have united the great body of English Protestants, would, in the days of William, have alienated more hearts than it would have conciliated.