One Whig historian talks of the machinations of the republicans, another of the machinations of the Jacobites.

But it is quite certain that four fifths of the representatives of the people were neither Jacobites nor republicans.
Yet not a single voice was raised in the Lower House in favour of the clause which in the Upper House had been carried by acclamation, [405] The most probable explanation seems to be that the gross injustice which had been committed in the case of Oates had irritated the Commons to such a degree that they were glad of an opportunity to quarrel with the Peers.

A conference was held.

Neither assembly would give way.

While the dispute was hottest, an event took place which, it might have been thought, would have restored harmony.