To vote for the instruction would have been inconsistent with their principles.

To vote against it would have been to break with Nottingham.

A middle course was found.

The adjournment of the debate was moved and carried by a hundred and sixteen votes to a hundred and fourteen; and the subject was not revived.

[95] In the House of Lords a motion was made for the abolition of the sacramental test, but was rejected by a large majority.