The Comprehension Bill was not passed; and the Test Act was not repealed.
Just at the moment when the question of the Test and the question of the Comprehension became complicated together in a manner which might well perplex an enlightened and honest politician, both questions became complicated with a third question of grave importance.
The ancient oaths of allegiance and supremacy contained some expressions which had always been disliked by the Whigs, and other expressions which Tories, honestly attached to the new settlement, thought inapplicable to princes who had not the hereditary right.

The Convention had therefore, while the throne was still vacant, framed those oaths of allegiance and supremacy by which we still testify our loyalty to our Sovereign.

By the Act which turned the Convention into a Parliament, the members of both Houses were required to take the new oaths.

As to other persons in public trust, it was hard to say how the law stood.

One form of words was enjoined by statutes, regularly passed, and not yet regularly abrogated.