The clause which admitted Presbyterian ministers to hold benefices without episcopal ordination was rejected.

The clause which permitted scrupulous persons to communicate sitting very narrowly escaped the same fate.

In the Committee it was struck out, and, on the report, was with great difficulty restored.

The majority of peers in the House was against the proposed indulgence, and the scale was but just turned by the proxies.
But by this time it began to appear that the bill which the High Churchmen were so keenly assailing was menaced by dangers from a very different quarter.

The same considerations which had induced Nottingham to support a comprehension made comprehension an object of dread and aversion to a large body of dissenters.